Long Island City Thursday afternoon linkage

Yes, we eagerly await all the broken campaign promises that many here foolishly bought into. I for one can’t wait to see this plan of buying stalled construction sites implemented. Also looking forward to the appointment of the Van Bramer rent mediation czar.

is that courthouse used for anything anymore?

There must be something that I am missing, but I feel like with $900,000 subsidy I could run the east river route, not charge the passagers anything and still make a profit. How much money is needed to make two round trips to lower manhanttan in the morning and 3 in the afternoon? Something is up here.

capital investment? I think those ships are paid for…and what seasonal challenges? someone is lining his pockets….

I’m with you, #9. I’ll be skipper…

thx, i always wondered because i never see anything going on at the courthouse

courthouse square is the next area to be developed. you have the new condos on jackson, the new hi rises, and plans for new stores on jackson. i didnt know the courthouse was still used either, thought it was just a historic bldg.

I want on a tour of the NY Water Taxi a few years ago with an urban planning group and the owner told us very proudly that they just had bought two or three new boats and that hey cost $3.5MM each because they are state of the art. So for whatever it is worth this should help the people that trying to figure out if they could run the system with $900K. I am not saying you can’t run it with $900K but I also know that owning a boat is the biggest money sucking machine in the world because my brother owns a small boat and it is expensive to maintain.

whatever….I just want a pedestrian bridge…a cool one..

If London could do it why can’t we? Of course ours would have to be a little longer and higher.

http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/images/pictures/00/12/millennium-bridge-and-tate-modern-1175.jpg

london can do it because they’re more forward thinking in terms of urban design and sustainability and are willing to spend some money on it

Having lived in London when that bridge was inagurated, I recall it was actually a disaster. It wobbled and they had to go back and re-engineer the entire thing. It was a big embarrassment, not to mention expense. Nevertheless, having learned from whatever went wrong there, we could do something better, greener, and more beautiful.

does anyone know when (or if) that pub on Vernon near Manducatis Rustica is going to open? I thought it was already supposed to have opened.

Lightning speed? The bridge was built in two years, but then closed for another two years for them to fix it.

Let’s see how long it takes to build the Kosciusko replacement once they actually start construction.

Thanks, Townie.

Listen pal, constructing a little passarelle over the Thames or the Seine is one thing, but an estuary with the currents and commercial traffic of the East River is an entirely different matter. In London, between the City and the South Bank, the Millennium Bridge crosses 1214 feet of water with the greatest individual span being a little over 470 feet. The East River, however, is not the Thames and is nearly twice as wide at this point, not to mention the fact that the height requirements of East River bridges are considerably greater than those of the Thames, but I guess this doesn’t phase the bold New Visionaries who so suddenly descended on this backward and visionless neighborhood. The population of Bankside and Newington south of the Thames might justify such an expenditure of time (and vision) given that the inhabitants close at hand number in the tens of thousands. However, I am to be labeled “pathologically small-minded” by some Anonymous blank because I don’t yet see why the whims of a few hundred new “property-owners” ought to be converted into some far-reaching and extravagant policy in New York City.
I beg your pardon.

Life must be a ball.