HUDSON RIVER PARK DAY 2004, Waterfront, from Battery Place to 59th Street, Manhattan.
Word spread; crowds crammed the waterfront from Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan.
Worse, they entirely block this portion of the waterfront from pedestrian use.
"We want very much to open the waterfront from a recreation perspective, but we also want to protect our fragile waterfront from Mother Nature by recognizing the reality of storm surges," Mr. Stringer said in a phone interview.
The portion opened yesterday spans three-quarters of a mile of waterfront from Clarkson to Horatio Streets.
Ms. Gadson is particularly passionate about the need to develop the lengthy Brooklyn waterfront, from Coney Island to Brooklyn Heights.
Further along the waterfront from the SHKP building is the International Finance Centre, whose biggest skyscraper dwarfs the rest of the island.
Numerous celebrations ranging from outdoor concerts to historic exhibitions will take place along the four-mile stretch of waterfront from Fort Point to Pier 39.
Among much else the show's middle gallery contains a veritable retrospective of prints by Emil Nolde that show him covering the waterfront from Impressionism to Early Pop.
(Anderson) ★ I'll Be Your Mirror Festival (Friday through Sunday) All Tomorrow's Parties' formidable annual affair migrates to the Manhattan waterfront from Asbury Park, N.J.
In the last two years, 23 office buildings and thousands of apartments have been built along the 17 miles of waterfront from Bayonne to Fort Lee.
