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East River waterfront walk starting in Queens and ending at Fast Trash on Roosevelt Island

East River waterfront walk
Photo courtesy of Mitch Waxman.

Sunday, May 23, 11AM

Richard Melnick, President of the Greater Astoria Historical Society, will lead a walking tour of Roosevelt Island focusing on East River infrastructure. The tour will end at Fast Trash at Gallery RIVAA. At the conclusion of the walking tour Michael Heimbinder, Executive Director of HabitatMap, will discuss the logistics of moving trash in New York City answering the questions: how does garbage move? who moves it? and where does it move to?

Course: The walk begins at 11am at Socrates Sculpture Park, Vernon Blvd., and Broadway, LIC. From Socrates south to Costco, Rainey Park, and to Roosevelt Island Bridge (at 36th Avenue), cross bridge to Roos. Island. On the island, head south along East Channel to Queensboro Bridge, cross island to west side, walk north along West Channel to exhibit at Gallery RIVAA, 527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island.

Directions to Socrates Sculpture Park: take N Train to Broadway, and at street level walk west to Vernon Blvd. to park main gate. Alternately, Q103, Q104 bus to Broadway and Vernon Boulevard, or from RI Island take the Q102 bus to 36th Ave. and Vernon Blvd. (entrance to the RI bridge) and walk north to the park. Tour ends on Roosevelt Island.

Tour by Greater Astoria Historical Society with HabitatMap and Fast Trash. For more information about the Socrates Sculpture Park, visit socratessculpturepark.org.

 
Posted in Events by juliette on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Exhibition

Organized by Juliette Spertus with Project Projects

Curatorial assistant: Jack McGrath

Exhibition and website design: Project Projects

Research: Juliette Spertus, Jack Conviser and Jack McGrath

Video: Gregory Whitmore

Photography: Kate Milford

Sponsors

Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC)

Envac AB

Roosevelt Island Historical Society (RIHS)

Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association (RIVAA)

Lamson Airtubes, LLC


Fiscal sponsor and educational programming

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)


Special thanks

NYC Dept. of Sanitation; Jerry Sorgente, DSNY; and Judith Berdy, RIHS

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