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Google Goes to Governors Island

Google Goes to Governors Island

Among the revelations in Nick Paumgarten’s recent meandering piece for The New Yorker was that the designs for the park had actually been completed months ago and are under lock-and-key within the former Coast Guard grounds, awaiting the stabilization of Albany—sometime in 2012, perhaps?—for a proper unveiling. The other piece of news that struck us was that Leslie Koch, the director of GIPEC who had fought to have the island put back on maps it had been excised from decades prior, had gone so far as to convince the notorious Google Street View car to come over to the island so people could explore the place inside-out, in-season and out. (The park closes the second weekend of October.)

Well, upon reading The New Yorker story, we went online to see for ourselves, but were dismayed that the magazine’s vaunted fact-checking department had somehow let us down. Turns out that wasn’t exactly the case. Thanks to Curbed, we were alerted to the fact that the Google car had indeed been on the island, as the picture above from the Governors Island Blog proves. The actual Street View did not go online until yesterday, though. Check it out for yourselves, and while you’re there, see if you cant turn up some of those models of the new park.


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