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Day: June 24, 2015

City Club Legal Challenge to Hudson River Park Trust / Barry Diller “Pier 55” Island Plans

May 16, 2016June 24, 2015

Earlier this month a significant lawsuit was filed by the NYC-based City Club and two individuals, Tom Fox, the head of the predecessor organization to the current Hudson River Park Trust and Rob Buchanan, a … Read more…

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Summer Daze Washington Square Park

June 24, 2015

I was looking at the fountain from the Arch and noticed the plume was really full and moving like a hurricane. As I got closer… I realized it was a man … doing this… I … Read more…

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Overheard on the Fountain Plaza

June 24, 2015

Two grey haired men in t-shirts and long shorts walking purposefully through the park alongside the fountain headed north. One man is leading the way. As he walks by, he says to the other, “I … Read more…

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Realize that little things lead to bigger things ... And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of. ~ Pete Seeger

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