Category: Views Of Galaxy

Monday, May 26, 2008

Spring In The Best L’il Park On The Gold Coast

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Galaxy Summers: Aha! Looks Interesting! More Later

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Our Own Riverside Garden W/Gazebo?!

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Now, that’d be nice!! This is a real shot, untouched, from the Hudson Walkway at Hovnanian’s new Views at Hudson Pointe I.

But unfortunately, most of that nice garden space will one day be occupied by the Views at Hudson Pointe II

Oh well, there is that (in our view misplaced; a ferry stop would add more value for most of Guttenberg) small town park to come.

That park will one day occupy the left extremity of this shot.

Update: Our view of the general utility of this park changes radically if it occupies all of that area, plus the Spoleti site across River Road. We’d be all for that.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Great Walk With Views, Across From The Galaxy

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Views of the Galaxy from Riverside Park really hit you as spectacular.

They sure put all those uninspired and unspectacular Gold Coast developments in their place.

This park is all new south of 72nd Street. From there north, it is an old park, revived.

The section in front of Trump Place, almost directly across from us, opened a couple of years ago.

The southern section, just north of the Manhattan cruise terminal, is nearly complete now. It will be ready and open this summer.

And work has started on the widening into the river of the narrow section north of the 79th Street Marina.

Nice to look onto, and surprising fun to walk.

Three shots below: work on the southern section of the park, which will soon be opened

Two shots below: the section directly across from us, looking good now, if rather wintery

Two shots below: a roofed-over seating area; be warned, if it rains, the roof seems kinda porous

Below: not yet quite complete, the park extends under the elevated highway and up that grassy slope

Below: From up that grassy slope,  a view of that old ferry pier for trains (really)

And shots below: yeah, you can walk that pier - no, not that wooden one in the foreground

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Value Watch: The Galaxy Poses - Not Exactly A Shrinking Violet…

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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Manhattan Watch: The Galaxy From The Direction Of…

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Monday, May 29, 2006

Galaxy Rising to the Sunshine

The Memorial Day weekend began as the sun rose last Friday morning: the scaffolds that had shaded the entrance area of Tower I for a couple of years were being dismantled.
They were the last of the three towers to be exposed to the sunlight again.

The front service staff was smiling.  Ruberto and Debbie both said that it didn’t matter if the sun was shining or not, it was good to see weather again from the concierge desk – but the sun was shining.

The outdoor pool officially opened Saturday morning, as promised by the Galaxy management.  Granted that the wooden section of the area has not yet been completed, but, no matter, there were already a few residents taking advantage of our ‘great outdoors’ as long as the sun shone.  Sunday, however, was a different story.  The weather was a neat 83° and, in the outdoor pool area, most of the lounge chairs were occupied.  The usual Galaxy friendliness prevailed.  I stayed longer than I had planned… even got some color after a winter of pure paleness.

The sun will shine again tomorrow for the annual Guttenberg Memorial Day Parade, for the pool and for our mini-park.
 
The Galaxy shines best when the sun shines outdoors and, anytime, when the sun shines within each of us.

Let’s have a happy summer.

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Galaxy Rising Part Deux

We are going to re-build G-R in the next month or so with up to 20 "front pages" based on this highly successful model. See those various left buttons? Each one opens a "narrowcast" page.

We intend several pages at least to really show off the Galaxy (one for example on nice apartment interiors), also maybe apartments for sale, also certainly the good things about the neighborhood and waterfront. Local development would remain one main focus.

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Your Comments

On the post 'Protecting The Palisades: Our Past Posts, And Our New Ones Planned'.

Glad you’re back posting, but not glad to see N. Bergen butchering the Palisades down the road for a Wallgreens plaza!  How unnecessary, and isn’t that a perfectly good recently cleared lot right next door cross from the diner?

On the post 'Protecting The Palisades: Our Past Posts, And Our New Ones Planned'.

Daily posting is due to resume here on 1 June, now that work-related issues (aka that pesky stockmarket) are thankfully receding into history.

But anything that we have outstanding and in the can on the palisades will be posted here in the next few days. Thanks for reading.

On the post 'River Road Problems: This Entire Hillside Is Now Threatened'.

For heaven’s sake, can’t we have SOME areas of trees, vegetation, nature, around us? Must not only those precious things, but another section of our Palisades, which have existed since the dawn of time, be destroyed, in the name of more and more development? Enough already!

On the post 'As Always, We're Curious About The Stock Market: Where Next?'.

The guys say they are not sure why the Democrats have this effect on the market. But Democrats tend to be more fair and balanced and spread the purchasing power around more and they are pro regulation and balancing the budget and pro all sors of research and education. So it seems obvious that the…

On the post 'Pier 88 Again: Ship Burns And Sinks - Right In Front Of Us (Sort Of)'.

Ha ha! Good question! I went looking for an answer but so far no luck. But these two pieces by Earl Rickard make interesting reading:

Tragic Tale of the Normandie…

Part I: Smoke Across the Skyline

Part II: Salvaged in Vain?

On the post 'Pier 88 Again: Ship Burns And Sinks - Right In Front Of Us (Sort Of)'.

Interesting story. Did the French ever get their check?

On the post 'You Could Be Walking This By The Year's End'.

Heads-up on our newsreader feeds - they’re fixed! Working now. Someone finally told us.

On the post 'Around Noon Today: The Attack Carrier Intrepid Returns To Pier 86'.

Thank you Peter for the alert and we’ll be watching. Perhaps you could re-post these shots, but in reverse! Just kidding, we always appreciate the nice shots here.

On the post 'Now Off The Galaxy: Care To Guess What Is It?'.

Thanks for the welcome back below! Just in time for this financial crunch, which is slowing things down again. Thanks a lot, crunch.

On the post 'You Probably Wont See THIS Again In Your Lifetime'.

Welcome back !!!

On the post 'Tonight: Key Hearing On Huge Traffic-Making Jumbo To Our North'.

Good point! Thank you Brian. Will post a report by someone who was there this weekend. Plus there’s the park campaign to be described.

(I’m still in France, cruising one jump ahead of the Tour de France - size of the advance party for this race is amazing. Last night I saw maybe 40-80 cop…

On the post 'Tonight: Key Hearing On Huge Traffic-Making Jumbo To Our North'.

How did the meeting go?

On the post 'And This Very Colorful Maritime Destination Is?'.

No I’m not in Mass, in response to a couple of emails! I really am in south-west France, right now on the Mediterranean coast. After a fast and wonderful drive through the Pyrenees, in the world’s best saloon world for such cruising: a 5-Series BMW. Wheee.

A turbo-diesel, but you’d never know it from the…

On the post 'Can You Identify This Tourism Destination?'.

Half of them are ours if that was the question! We have actually been there.

But they’re older shots with an older camera. I’m now using an 18X zoom and prefer to shoot very early or late in the day.

Almost all of our shots have to be lightened and made more contrasty…

On the post 'Can You Identify This Tourism Destination?'.

Awesome shots !!!

On the post 'Preserving The Palisades #3: Now Take A Look At The Palisades Themselves'.

Great series of posts Peter.  Agreed, the cliffs really are spectacular, and Palisades Park just to our north is a very welcome bit of land preservation.

On the post 'Development Watch: Former Unilever Research Complex Edgewater'.

No ferry stop approved yet for Edgewater Square. We’ve posted various times on the need, for example here.

Our own take on the southern Edgewater ferry-stop possibilities (though see remark at bottom here) is this:

1) The developer’s project is approved as we have described it, but there’s a lawsuit related to some…

On the post 'Development Watch: Former Unilever Research Complex Edgewater'.

Could you tell me if the Unilever site has a ferry site approved? Thanks, Lisa

On the post 'Breaking News: Yes This Really MIGHT All Become A Park!'.

Extremely well put, Brian, and I must say that the net negative of the PILOT schemes you describe had really eluded me.

We all of us seem to be going through a whole moodshift now all along the north Gold Coast down to Hoboken, and interested in coming together more and throwing some weight.

On the post 'Breaking News: Yes This Really MIGHT All Become A Park!'.

Peter, I would absolutely welcome GR’s help in raising awareness of lack of open space, and in general community-building amenities of “Port Imperial”.  After living here for 2 years (from Hoboken), a lot of things became clear to me about Port Imperial that wasn’t self evident before the move.

First, unlike many value-creating initiatives for…

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