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Governors Island One Step Closer To Hammock Heaven
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 18, 2011
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Governors Island had a simple dream: to create its own hammock paradise from the ashes of its worn down, unused fields. All that was standing in its way was a couple hundred million dollars needed in order to execute the ambitious project. But today, DNAInfo reports that Mayor Bloomberg has approved $150 million for the city-administered island...which means we are that much closer to a grove of cloud-kissed hammocks.
The money will go toward opening up a new 23-acre section, the Liggett Hall area, which has never been publicly accessible before; the redevelopment project will start there, with the construction of a hammock-hemmed forest and two new sports fields. The only question now is whether they should go to the Hammock Hut, Hammocks-R-Us, Put-Your-Butt-There, or Swing Low, Sweet Chariot for their hammock needs. If only Central Park could figure out how to incorporate hammocks more naturally into that park, maybe we wouldn't have so many trustafarians sleeping in the trees.
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