Category Archives: Events
G.I.A. Inc.
The Governors Island Alliance has laid plans to become an independent organization, wholly separate from the Regional Plan Association, which created it and has nurtured it from the beginning. Technically, the Alliance has been a corporation since 2002, when it … Continue reading
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Lost History Link
The Island lost a link to history when Charlie Kahlman died in October. A certified historian, he was an N.P.S. Ranger who had been guiding visitors through the National Monument since 2007, and previously at Grant’s Tomb and Castle Clinton. … Continue reading
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IN-DOCKtrination at the Harbor School
Forty teenagers reported to the Battery Maritime Building at 8 o’clock in the morning on Monday, August 1, to start their IN-DOCKtrination for four years at the Harbor School. Paperwork completed, they boarded the Coursen and ferried to the Island … Continue reading
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C’mon and hear…
Irving Berlin’s Alexander, of ragtime band fame, had nothing on the jazz age crews Michael Arenella has been bringing to the Island twice every summer. For the past six years, “Michael Arenella’s Dreamland Orchestra” has brought his own brand of … Continue reading
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IRENE SCENE
Worried about Irene damage to the Island? There wasn’t a lot. A tree or two were toppled and some branches were broken. Morning-after photo by National Park Service staff.
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New School on the Island?
Governors Island is one of the three choices of land that the city is offering as the site for a new school for the applied sciences – such as engineering, physics, computer science, chemistry and environmental science. The two others … Continue reading
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Earth Matter(s)
The Earth Matter plot on the eastern edge of Picnic Point answers the age-old question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? The chicken did – about 30 of them, in an earth friendly demonstration project by a … Continue reading
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A New Look at Old Water
As a cleaner New York Harbor has penetrated deeper into the public consciousness every year, so has the desire to spread the news. From the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School‘s high school lessons to Baykeeper’s oyster gardening, advocates enliven … Continue reading
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a kite!
Breezy shores and open fields are the perfect formula for flying a kite – on Governors Island, of course. The Alliance will host its annual Let’s Fly a Kite day on Saturday, July 23. There will be hundreds of free … Continue reading
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The City Floats!
The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance will float its fourth annual City of Water Day next weekend — on Saturday, July 16. Governors Island and Liberty State Park in New Jersey are its two hubs on terra firma, but the real focus … Continue reading
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