^ You didn't include the eye-porn:
Current East River look.
Rendering of possible East River plans.
As a "vision" exercise, they lacked no expense. Why tease people when the expense of this vision is beyond practicality and couldn't be built near any reasonable cost? Already estimated at a couple hundred millions of dollars, the costs of this dream will only escalate. Richard Rodgers should be invited to submit his recommendations, since he is designing the East River esplanade to the south, as well as some of the waterfront in LIC as part of his Silvercup towers. (This vision is a red herring in vain hopes of killing Solow's Con Ed development.)
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