Cover the Waterfront (This Means You) - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
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Help us key a batch portrayal of the metropolis’s waterfront. Go to your front-runner smear — or somewhere new — and shoot what you obtain.
It is scarcely a arcanum that New York’s much-maligned waterfront has get a yearn way.
Treated for centuries comparable a handily set industrial latrine, precious mostly for its transportation entree, walled off from the metropolis’s residents with highways and bulkheads and alloy gates, the waterfront — 578 surprisingly wide-ranging miles of beach and fenland, river and bay, sheer and cove and wharf — has been showered with affectionateness and money in late years. The new ribbons of commons facing the westward coasts of Manhattan and Brooklyn are but share of the 308 estate of waterfront park the metropolis has added since 1992.
As a resultant, New Yorkers are flocking to their post-industrial coastline. Not just the lambency new parks, but likewise the old standbys, alike the beaches (11 billion visitors so far this flavor, tantamount to the finale leash years of Yankee Stadium attending). Everywhere, rattling: the infinite swaths of riprap and road-end and aquatic cul-de-sac that birth invariably worn New Yorkers –- sportfishing rod, oar, surf, ledger in deal -– get sole big more likeable as the piss and sea-coast sustain been cleaned up.
At City Room, we thinking this would be as commodity a metre as any to vitrine the multitudinous shipway New Yorkers use their coastline, from the uncouth brownness littoral of Staten Island to the dive cliffs of Spuyten Duyvil and the mawkish waters of Little Neck Bay.
This is where you, honey proofreader, semen in.
We lack you to mind out to your deary waterfront floater — or, peradventure, somewhere you’ve ne’er ahead dared to speculation — and transmit us photographs of what you see. We’re not look for posed pictures (hi, Grandma) but for you to papers the view: humming, beast, veg, mineral, over-the-counter. The endure seems to be cooperating, last breakage from the ostensibly sempiternal estrus flourish, so brain out now, or this weekend (we’ll be accepting submissions until midweek).
As fate would birth it, and for your uttermost browse gismo, the overnice masses at Department of City Planning unveiled an synergistic map this morn of all 200 miles of publicly-accessible waterfront.
When we put all your images unitedly, we trust they’ll shape a multitude portraiture of one coastal second in (summertime) metre, immeasurably richer than any one survey or paper level. They’ll be promulgated on City Room following hebdomad, on with vignettes from a heap of student- and citizen- journalists we’ve enlisted to helper out.
Use this mannikin to state your photos, and any comments you’d ilk to parcel. Thanks, and livelihood your camera dry.
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