NYCkayaker Interest in meeting?

[Rob Buchanan]

Bonnie/Julie,

I'll almost certainly be there whatever day it is, so you can add me to the
head count. 

One thing I think needs to be discussed is what happens to the village
community boathouse (floating the apple's seed project at pier 40) when pier
40 gets the big remake. Even if they secure a spot to return to
afterwards--and that's far from assured, as neither of the rfp bidders
included them in their schemes--they're going to need somewhere to go to in
the interim. Yes, it seems probable that floating the apple is going to
'get' the boathouse at pier 84, but that's all the way up at 42nd and
besides, the pier 40 rowing operation has really grown into a separate and
site-specific entity. They serve a lot of stuyvesant, millenium and bmcc
kids in addition to a pretty big adult contingent from downtown and the
village. Not sure of their numbers, but these are really valuable community
programs--completely free, no membership requirements, no individually-owned
vessels--that seem likely to grow. I'd like to think they could co-exist in
the same boathouse with DTBH (given the right boathouse, of course!) but I'd
be curious to hear what you and others think about that.

Rob



On 2/28/07 11:57 AM, "bonnie13 at earthlink.net" <bonnie13 at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Hi - this is too good not to throw out there, trying to judge the general
> interest in attending the next & final Tribeca boathouse design meeting!
> 
> I just got off the phone with Julie Nadel - she sounds very excited about the
> ideas that are bouncing around from the Tribeca boathouse design task force
> meetings, and she's scheduling a final one that will happen in around 2 weeks.
> At that one, there's going to be a review of a recommendations document that's
> being produced from written commentary that's been submitted, some excerpts
> from a community survey that asked people what they liked about the old Pier
> 25 & 26, and notes on the discussions on both meetings. May include some
> possible ideas for interim storage solutions (such as shipping containers like
> the ones in use now at Sebago & at New York Kayak).
> 
> The idea is that after the next meeting, CB 1 goes to the Trust with a
> document that doesn't just criticize the current plan, but offers some viable
> alternatives. 
> 
> This final meeting could be pretty interesting - and it's possible that the
> results could serve to change the tone of the Trust's approach to river access
> - what happens in Tribeca could then have an effect on what happens in other
> neighborhoods, down the road - I believe there's at LEAST one more major
> boathouse in the plans. Julie's thinking it could be fairly large, she's
> considering lining up a larger room, I asked if she'd like me to check for
> interest among my circles & she said that would be helpful - she doesn't want
> to line up a large room & then not have anybody attend, that just looks bad.
> 
> I'm just after a rough head count here. Question is: Do you think you'd attend
> this meeting? It'll be on a weekday, in the evening, won't take time off from
> an average work day.
> 
> DTBH, I know you guys have been attending these, maybe Jim or Tim could get a
> similar headcount among your specific group, I'll try to get a feel for how
> many outside that group would want to go?
> 
> To cut down on the length of the digests & quantity of emails, maybe just hit
> reply to me instead of reply all. I will not be saving names, just counting of
> the "Yes, I'll try to make it" replies.  - if you do hit reply-all, please
> remember the discussion about deleting the message to which you're responding,
> except specific excerpts which you're directly addressing! Could get messy
> otherwise...
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