{"id":2699,"date":"2010-03-07T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrrl.com\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:01","slug":"ruins-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2010\/ruins-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruins in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_o5uHJ8JNTFY\/S5NMV6K9EUI\/AAAAAAAAErs\/CQY-bDnfORY\/s1600-h\/nyc_riverside_pier_d_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"393\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_o5uHJ8JNTFY\/S5NMV6K9EUI\/AAAAAAAAErs\/CQY-bDnfORY\/s640\/nyc_riverside_pier_d_1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333355; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Gill Sans', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\">As seen on a post in <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/designcorner.blinkr.net\/architecture\/royalparks.org.uk?page=133\">Design Corne<\/span>r: One misty morning while in New York City, take a cab uptown to West 64th Street in Manhattan. When you reach the Riverside park, observe a dark undulating skeleton sticking out of the Hudson River. The twisted metallic construction that stimulates comparisons with Frank Gehry\u2019s architecture has been there since 37 years ago. Before Pier D was consumed by raging fire in 1971, it was a part of the New York Central Railroad Yard. Today Pier D is the kind of design form that quite literally follows the function \u2013 chronologically leaving its original practicalities behind in the smoke of Manhattan\u2019s industrial past. Back then, Pier D\u2019s&nbsp;<em style=\"font-size: small; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;\">utility&nbsp;<\/em>was to be used as a deck for longshoremen to unload bulk cargo. Now Pier D is all about emotional&nbsp;<em style=\"font-size: small; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;\">significance&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 it serves no purpose other than the aesthetic one. However, the official confirmation of the site\u2019s new aesthetic status was issued no earlier than in 2003 \u2013 through a timely gesture of Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner who has been known for his protective stances vis-\u00e0-vis the city\u2019s natural and historic beauty. He was called on the phone one day to be put on notice that a crane had begun dismantling the pier \u2013 according to approved plans deliberated and finalized in Benepe\u2019s absence. The commissioner rushed to the site and ordered to stop the demolition.<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;\">Accidental landscape design\u2026 In the opinion of a nearby dweller, since the arrival of Trump Place \u201ceverything looks so new here, [\u2026] we need a reminder of what it was like 80 years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2010\/ruins-in-new-york\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ruins in New York\"><p>As seen on a post in Design Corner: One misty morning while in New York City, take a cab uptown to West 64th Street in Manhattan. When you reach the Riverside park, observe a dark undulating skeleton sticking out of the Hudson River. The twisted metallic construction that stimulates comparisons with Frank Gehry\u2019s architecture has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[205,300,347,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75735,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/75735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}