I give a big thumbs up to efforts that various groups and government organizations have made to clean up the Hudson River. I use it every week. I paddle on the Hudson, I’ve gone swimming in it and some of my runs each week take me along it’s sparking edge. How cool, then, to read about the effort to give us outdoors deprived Manhattanites a place to sun ourselves.
Yes, we might be getting a bona-fide beach. Say it with me: a beach in Manhattan. And what’s even more amazing is that the beach, should it be built, might be located just a few blocks from my apartment. This is crazy news. But of course, like a Nascar race beauty pageant, there are always a few big buts. In this case, one of the buts is that the beach won’t even be started until 2012 when the city sanitation department depot relocates at that time.
The second but is that this is where the city sanitation department is located. So that can bode well for the cleanliness of things, even if they do say it will be cleaned up. But no matter how you look at it, a beach along the river would be tres cool. It may be aways off, but I am already shopping for beach towels.