Updated Reimagining the Waterfront Website and Upcoming Events

Check out CIVITAS’s newly updated Reimagining the Waterfront website

A NEW  Submissions Section where you can view all competition submissions as well as the winning designs.

A NEW  Comment Section.  We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts on the Reimagining the Waterfront: Manhattan’s East River Esplanade competition designs, and your visions for a re-imagined East River Esplanade.

A NEW  Support Section. Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to CIVITAS to support our mission and help us improve the East River Esplanade.

Reimagining the Waterfront is a CIVITAS-sponsored program to solicit design ideas for the East River Esplanade between East 60^th and 125^th Streets. The Museum of the City of New York exhibition will be on display until October 28 and features the eight winning proposals as well as historic images of the East River Waterfront and photographs of the site today.

Join Us For A Public Design Discussion

SAVE THE DATE
Public Design Discussion of the East River Esplanade
Saturday, September 29 (morning)

You are invited to a discussion of design ideas for Manhattan’s East River Esplanade. We welcome you to come and share your visions for a re-imagined Esplanade. Visit our Reimagining the Waterfront website for more information and design ideas from the competition.

Please register to attend by emailing info@civitasnyc.org

If you are unable to attend, you can still reimagine the waterfront and share your ideas with us by leaving a comment on our website.

Video of June 26 Jury Panel Discussion

On June 26 members of the Reimagining the Waterfront ideas competition jury convened for a panel discussion at the Museum of the City of New York.

Now you can view the the video of the June 26^th Reimagining the Waterfront panel discussion.

Lawyer and Upper East Sider Albert Butzel, veteran of the battle over Westway, Warren James, Principal at Warren A. James Architects + Planners, Signe Nielsen, Principal at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, Rob Rogers, Partner at Rogers Marvel Architects, and Adam Yarinsky, Principal at Architecture Research Office (ARO) discussed their favorite competition submissions and strategies for improving the East River Esplanade park. Crain’s New York Business Assistant Managing Editor Erik Engquist moderated the discussion.

Read about the event in DNAinfo: “Bold Ideas for East River Esplanade a Feat of Imagination, Fans Say”

Coming Up...

Gallery Tour at the Museum of the City of New York with CIVITAS Executive Director Hunter Armstrong on October 4^th at 3 p.m.