Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, part of protecting lower Manhattan from the kind of flooding that occurred during Hurricane Sandy. Much of it is relatively straightforward: there’s a big berm being added to the park along the river, which will be landscaped to be a useful part of the park.
Part of the park since its construction has been an odd folly, with a fake brick arch as its centerpiece, that housed a restaurant. Since the folly’s footprint crossed form an area with unchanged elevation into the berm, it had to be removed, and is being replaced with an odder folly, which will probably house a restaurant.
That’s the context for this photo:
That’s the new folly, but I have no way to explain what that is because I have no idea. If you look at the website about the project there are some renderings of it, but they don’t seem to look much like that. It may be that my imagination is lacking or it may be that the design has changed since the renderings were made or it may be some of both. In the end, I just want the project done to get the sidewalks back to normal.
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