A documentary on the city's waterfront fights, City of Water, premieres this Saturday, April 19, at 1:30 p.m. on local PBS Channel 13. (Check out the trailer below)
I was fortunate enough to be able to watch ths film on Saturday March 8th, at the New York Hall of Science at Flushing Meadow Park during the Going Green in Queens event, co-sponsored by Partnership for Parks
According to the Municipal Art Society:
Read original...Two years in the making, the documentary includes scenes from the New Jersey Gold Coast, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Jamaica Bay, and the Queens and Bronx waterfronts. The film features interviews with Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff, MacArthur Prize winner and founder of Sustainable South Bronx Majora Carter; author Philip Lopate, Sandy Hook Pilots’ Captain Andrew McGovern and others.
"City of Water" trailer from MAS on Vimeo.
The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and the Municipal Art Society are proud to present their new documentary City of Water about the future of New York City's waterfront. Two years in the making, City of Water explores the aspirations of public officials, environmentalists, academics, community activists, recreational boaters and everyday New Yorkers for a diverse, vibrant waterfront at a time when the shoreline is changing faster than at any other time in New York's history. The documentary features interviews with Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, US Representative Nydia Velazquez, MacArthur Fellow Majora Carter, author Phillip Lopate, Sandy Hook Pilots' Captain Andrew McGovern and others, and includes footage from Jamaica Bay, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and many other places on the waterfront.
