Waterfront on Wheels

Last Wednesday, on February 27th, students at the Lower East Side’s PS 134 worked together to design their dream park on the East River waterfront. The New York City Parks Department, along with Mathews Nielsen, the landscape architects developing the park’s master plan, and Hester Street Collaborative, asked students what they wanted to see at the new park planned for Pier 42, currently underutilized space owned by the city. 

40 students made models and collages of what they wanted to see on the river. The students envisioned swimming pools, open space, basketball courts, wetlands, and a wide variety of other uses for the new space. Their finished models were displayed in Hester Street’s Waterfront on Wheels scale model of the East River waterfront, and each group had the opportunity to present their park vision to their classmates. Mathews Nielsen will be incorporating the students’ visions, as well as other ideas from the community, into the park’s master plan, which they will present this Spring to Community Board 3. Stay tuned. 

03/4/13
East River Waterfront  Waterfront on Wheels  ps134 

A little view into some of the models that  participants have created through the Waterfront on Wheels workshops over the last year. We’ll be continuing to analyze new models that get made in future workshops this summer and fall. That analysis will help us to advocate for temporary uses at Pier 42 and permanent design features in the new park that ultimately gets built there!

07/18/12

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Pier 42 Public Meeting at Community Board 3

Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00pm — BRC Senior Services Center - 30 Delancey Street (btwn Chrystie & Forsyth Sts)

* CB 3, Parks Department, Senator Daniel Squadron and East River Blueway to engage the community in a discussion on next steps for Pier 42 planning

02/21/12

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East River Waterfront projects covered in the Times

The New York Times writes about the multiple projects coming together to create the East River Greenway. See how Pier 42, which will be one of the biggest components of the greenway, fits in.


01/3/12

This week the Waterfront on Wheels is in residence at P.S. 134. The school’s third graders are going to build models of their dream park at Pier 42, which happens to be 4 blocks from the school, by the end of the week. Today we talked about where our neighborhood is in the city and where the model is in the neighborhood. 

12/6/11
On Monday evening November 28th, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) is hosting a panel discussion about the East River Waterfront redevelopment. Featuring Anne Frederick, Hester Street Collaborative, Damaris Reyes, GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side), and Esther Wang, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities and moderated by Kaja Kühl, GSAPP. 11/28, 6:30pm-8:30pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University GSAPP 1 train to 116th Street About Where is New York: Each month, one program at GSAPP will identify a site within the five boroughs that has been important to their discipline within the past year and bring designers, policymakers, developers, community activists, and other New Yorkers together to discuss the site and question where we are.

On Monday evening November 28th, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) is hosting a panel discussion about the East River Waterfront redevelopment. Featuring Anne Frederick, Hester Street Collaborative, Damaris Reyes, GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side), and Esther Wang, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities and moderated by Kaja Kühl, GSAPP.

  • 11/28, 6:30pm-8:30pm
  • Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University GSAPP
  • 1 train to 116th Street

About Where is New York: Each month, one program at GSAPP will identify a site within the five boroughs that has been important to their discipline within the past year and bring designers, policymakers, developers, community activists, and other New Yorkers together to discuss the site and question where we are.

11/22/11
The Lo-Down covers the Pier 42 Funding decision

11/22/11
Pier 42  O.U.R. Waterfront  Chuck Schumer  Daniel Squadron 

$14 Million for Pier 42

We just came from a press conference with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and NY State Senator Daniel Squadron who announced that $14 million had been secured for Pier 42 from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. This exciting news is the result of many years of advocacy on the part of community leaders from the O.U.R. Waterfront Coalition (which HSC is a part of) and Community Board 3. Schumer, Squadron, and along with Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe reinforced the idea that planning for the public space on Pier 42 should come from the ground up through a community process. This is exactly the role that the Waterfront on Wheels plays. Ultimately the LMDC estimates that $40 million is needed for the entire refurbishment and transformation of the pier into a public park, but Senator Squadron stressed that this 14 million will allow the abandoned pier shed building to be demolished and for interim public access to the site as soon as a year from now.

11/18/11
Chuck Schumer  Daniel Squadron  Pier 42  LMDC  O.U.R. Waterfront 

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The Waterfront on Wheels (WoW) is a series of workshops, conducted by Hester Street Collaborative, in partnership with the Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance, that engage local residents around envisioning the future for public park space on the East River waterfront. Follow WoW as it travels around the Lower East Side and Chinatown.

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