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• Trash trucks, not trapezes, is latest idea for Pier 40

  Published: December 17, 2007, 5:22 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Hudson River Park, Pier 40

  If you think community activists would be leading the opposition to a plan to put garbage trucks in a waterfront park, guess again.

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• Pier 40 plans reconsidered as deadline nears

  Published: December 17, 2007, 5:11 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Hudson River Park, Parks, Pier, Pier 40, Waterfront Access

  There are new details about all three plans for Pier 40's future.

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• Will Villagers Sink Related's Pier 40 Plan?

  Published: January 17, 2008, 1:58 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Pier 40, The Related Companies

  of Hudson River Park's Pier 40, the West Village community seems all but too eager to shut the door on Related Companies' proposed park and waterside entertainment complex. Instead, many seem to be opting for a community plan that mostly preserves the giant working pier-turned-parking lot and ball field complex while still generating enough

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• TO SAVE THE HUDSON RIVER PARK

  Published: February 1, 2008, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Going Coastal, Hudson River, Hudson River Park, Pier 40, Waterfront

  The Hudson River Park Trust has a vital decision to make: how to save Pier 40, at the foot of West Houston Street on Manhattan’s Lower West Side - and, ultimately, the aborning park itself.

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• Village Wants to Keep Its Fields as They Are

  Published: February 1, 2008, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Holland America Lines, Hudson River, Hudson River Park, Pier 40, Soccer Fields

  Mellora Ansbro plays soccer for the Gotham girls' team on the huge green fields within Pier 40, where city noises and river winds seem as remote as the Holland America Line ships that once pulled up alongside.

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• Pier 40 plans still uncertain

  Published: February 1, 2008, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Campgroup, Cirque De Soleil, Hudson River Park, Pier 40, Related Companies

  It was supposed to be a day of reckoning for Hudson River Park's Pier 40.

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• Turning a Pier Into a Park

  Published: February 8, 2008, 8:18 pm

  Tags: Dive In, Go Coastal, Manhattan, Cirque Du Soleil, Get Wet, Hudson River, Pier 40, Waterfront

  The narrow pathway along Manhattan's western shore has become one of the real treasures in New York City's park system. The Hudson River Park draws bikers, skaters, walkers, readers, dog-lovers thousands each year who want to stand out on a pier and breathe the freshest air around. To maintain this 550-acre stretch of public [...]

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• Cirque du Soleil on NYC pier? Community says no

  Published: February 18, 2008, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Cirque Du Soleil, Hudson River, Hudson River Park, Pier 40

  surround athletic fields at Pier 40 in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. The pier’s square-doughnut building surrounds artificial-turf fields where children from several Manhattan neighborhoods play Little League baseball and other sports. But Pier 40 is in bad shape. Chunks of the roof have fallen on parked cars, and officials say the

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• Partnership and CampGroup eye a partnership at Pier 40

  Published: March 31, 2008, 7:02 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Public Waterfront, Campgroup, Hudson River, Hudson River Park, Pier 40

  benchmark date in the Pier 40 redevelopment process occurring this week, the Hudson River Park Trust appears to have radically changed its thinking on the critical Lower West Side pier. In short, the Trust the state-city authority building and operating the 5-mile waterfront park is now clearly encouraging a partnership between the

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• On the Waterfront: Pier 40 and the Limits of Commercial Development

  Published: April 23, 2008, 10:41 am

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Public Waterfront, Hudson River Park, Parks, Pier 40, Public Private Partnerships, Waterfront Access, West Side

  We may be seeing the limits to public-private partnerships in park development. geedebee via flickr.com The plan to use funds from the development of the West Side waterfront to finance new park construction and maintenance seems to be collapsing. While this doesn't mean an end to these partnerships, it is a signal that public amenities still

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• Plans for Pier Development May Yet Float

  Published: June 3, 2008, 11:08 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Hudson River, Park, Pier, Pier 40

  The Hudson River Park Trust is trying to breathe new life into two mixed-use development projects along the waterfront. Yesterday, the chairwoman of the Hudson River Park Trust, Diana Taylor, said she expects to send out a new request for proposals for Pier 57 in the next couple of months. Plans for developing Pier 57 [...]

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• Trust's chairperson is optimistic' about Pier 40

  Published: June 9, 2008, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Development, Hudson River, Park, Pier 40

  At a press conference last Thursday morning to mark the 10th anniversary of the Hudson River Park, Diana Taylor, the Hudson River Park Trust's chairperson, seemed to indicate that there's no way The Related Companies would come back into the picture as a possible developer of the 15-acre Pier 40 at W. Houston St. After [...]

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• Pier 40 plan shown; Event space makes some waves

  Published: July 16, 2008, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Hudson River Park, Pier 40

  The Pier 40 Working Group got its first glimpse of the new proposal for Pier 40 last Wednesday morning. After its board meeting at the end of March, the Hudson River Park Trust told the Pier 40 Partnership and Urban Dove/CampGroup to merge their separate redevelopment plans for the pier, and gave them 90 days to [...]

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• Pier 40 plan sails smoothly for most part at committee

  Published: July 24, 2008, 1:54 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Manhattan, Campgroup, Hudson River, Hudson River Park, Pier 40, The People S Pier, Urban Dove

  redevelopment of the 15-acre Pier 40 as The People's Pier. Although constrained by the Hudson River Park Trust, the state-city agency that controls the two-story pier at W. Houston St., not to discuss financial details of the plan, the expected

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