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Bloomberg Still Dreaming About Governors Island Gondola
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 5, 2010
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Back in 2006, the city requested proposals for ideas for Governors Island and, in the process, Mayor Bloomberg presented a design by acclaimed architect Santiago Caltrava for a tramway linking Governors Island to Battery Park and Brooklyn. The plan for the fanciful- (and cool-) looking system never got off the ground, but it still has fans in high places.
Just yesterday Bloomberg said on John Gambling's WOR radio show, "I have always thought that would be a phenomenal thing for the city, the same way The Eye [a giant Ferris wheel] is in London." He also says it would be profitable for the city, but the Post questions that, given that "the city's only tram, to Roosevelt Island, loses money." Well, tourists would probably go on a Governors Island gondola.
For now, folks will have to visit Governors Island, which may be transformed if the city can get another $200 million or so, via ferries from Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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