{"id":703,"date":"2006-02-16T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/stunning_doesnt_even_start_to_convey_the_majesty_of_this_centurys_roosevelt_island_tram.html"},"modified":"2006-02-16T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T17:53:39","slug":"stunning_doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/stunning_doesnt.html","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Doesn’t Even Start To Convey The Majesty Of This Century’s Roosevelt Island Tram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Roosevelt Island was such a smashing success<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Imagine this: Traveling among Governors Island, lower Manhattan and Brooklyn in an apple-shaped gondola that offered spectacular 360-degree views of the city and New York Harbor.
\nThe sky tramway — akin to those used at ski resorts — could be part of a dynamic new plan to redevelop Governors Island, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.<\/p>\n

City and state officials made a public appeal for visionary proposals to preserve and redevelop the 172-acre island, located a half-mile from Battery Park in the harbor. The proposals are due May 10.<\/p>\n

The tramway, designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, is a preliminary idea, not yet endorsed by the city or the state, officials said yesterday. Still, Bloomberg said the word “stunning” doesn’t “even start to convey” the majesty of Calatrava’s concept.<\/p>\n

“I just think this is going to be unbelievable,” he declared.<\/p>\n

Calatrava’s design calls for the gondola cars to be suspended from cables. The cars would be round with flip-up seats for eight to 12 passengers, plus space for a wheelchair. They would be air-conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter.<\/p>\n

There would be three stations: one at Battery Park in Manhattan between the Staten Island ferry terminal and the Coast Guard building; one in Brooklyn where Atlantic Ave. ends between Piers 6 and 7, and one at the tip of Governors Island.<\/p>\n

Passengers would be able to travel between Brooklyn and Manhattan as well as to Governors Island.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also: Governors Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Roosevelt Island was such a smashing success: Imagine this: Traveling among Governors Island, lower Manhattan and Brooklyn in an apple-shaped gondola that offered spectacular 360-degree views of the city and New York Harbor. The sky tramway — akin to those used at ski resorts — could be part of a dynamic new plan to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}