Weird not to be at Strawberry Fields tonight.

Weird not to be at Strawberry Fields tonight.

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@5 months ago with 16 notes
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#john lennon #rip #central park #strawberry fields 

Poor Bon Jovi :(

After all the hooplah over the Bon Jovi concert, less than 42,000 people showed. They gave out close to 70,000 tickets, expected as many people, Bon Jovi made a big deal about scalpers, and the media made up completely false rumors about an audience overflow section. Before the 10 p.m. finale, there was “a steady stream” of people leaving the Great Lawn.

EDIT (7/14): The reported number of attendees, 48,500, was intentionally exaggerated.  All parties involved (Bon Jovi, MLB, NYC, Ticketmaster, Central Park Conservancy, Parks, etc.) wanted the show to come off as a hit for their own reasons.  (Bon Jovi wanted to still seem cool, CPC wanted the numbers to be high so that next time around the city won’t push for a higher maximum capacity, etc.)

Speaking of hooplahs, the one opposing the maximum capacity restriction on the Great Lawn is absurd:

“In 2005, officials with the parks department limited gatherings on the Great Lawn to 50,000 people and capped the number of events at six each year, a controversial decision that officials said was designed to protect the lawn. In January, however, the parks department agreed to stop enforcing the 50,000-person limit, part of a settlement with two antiwar groups that sued the city in federal court after they were denied a permit to hold a mass demonstration on the lawn in 2004.

Under the agreement, the city was also to conduct a study about the use of the Great Lawn for large events. City officials said that while the study was being conducted, the maximum number of people allowed on the lawn would be increased to 75,000.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a lawyer for the Partnership for Civil Justice, a public interest law firm that challenged the regulation on behalf of the two antiwar groups, the National Council of Arab Americans and the Answer Coalition, said the decision to limit the Bon Jovi crowd violated the spirit of the agreement.

‘That lawn has historically held half a million people,’ she said. ‘They have provided no basis to show why it should be so heavily restricted at this point.’” (NYTimes)

Those “historical” moments when the Great Lawn held 500,000?  The 80’s, when acts like Diana Ross and Simon & Garfunkel performed, and the lawn reached a state of being irretrievably compacted and led to erosion into Turtle Pond. The CPC was only just beginning to grow, and the park was a dump.  So sure, throw half a million people on there, just get used to calling it the Great Dustbowl.

@3 years ago
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#bon jovi #central park #urban sociology 
Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art museum for Chanel, nearing completion in Central Park. New York is the museum’s only stop in North America - actually, the only stop in the entire Western Hemisphere. The parts were shipped directly from Tokyo and, after a run from 10.20 to 11.09, the museum will be disassembled and shipped to London. Inside? An exhibition by 20 contemporary artists, including Yoko Ono, each reinvisioning the famous Chanel bag in their own way. A peek inside: (link - You can see live webcams of the construction site by clicking on “The Tour: New York.”) (more info on Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 - this will be her first building in New York.)

Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art museum for Chanel, nearing completion in Central Park. New York is the museum’s only stop in North America - actually, the only stop in the entire Western Hemisphere. The parts were shipped directly from Tokyo and, after a run from 10.20 to 11.09, the museum will be disassembled and shipped to London. Inside? An exhibition by 20 contemporary artists, including Yoko Ono, each reinvisioning the famous Chanel bag in their own way.

A peek inside:

(link - You can see live webcams of the construction site by clicking on “The Tour: New York.”)

(more info on Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 - this will be her first building in New York.)

@3 years ago
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#central park #chanel mobile art #architecture 
Inside the tent for the Central Park Conservancy’s Taste of Summer event.

Inside the tent for the Central Park Conservancy’s Taste of Summer event.

@3 years ago
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#central park #spotted 
Weird not to be at Strawberry Fields tonight.
5 months ago
#john lennon #rip #central park #strawberry fields 
Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art museum for Chanel, nearing completion in Central Park. New York is the museum’s only stop in North America - actually, the only stop in the entire Western Hemisphere. The parts were shipped directly from Tokyo and, after a run from 10.20 to 11.09, the museum will be disassembled and shipped to London. Inside? An exhibition by 20 contemporary artists, including Yoko Ono, each reinvisioning the famous Chanel bag in their own way. A peek inside: (link - You can see live webcams of the construction site by clicking on “The Tour: New York.”) (more info on Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 - this will be her first building in New York.)
3 years ago
#central park #chanel mobile art #architecture 
Poor Bon Jovi :(

After all the hooplah over the Bon Jovi concert, less than 42,000 people showed. They gave out close to 70,000 tickets, expected as many people, Bon Jovi made a big deal about scalpers, and the media made up completely false rumors about an audience overflow section. Before the 10 p.m. finale, there was “a steady stream” of people leaving the Great Lawn.

EDIT (7/14): The reported number of attendees, 48,500, was intentionally exaggerated.  All parties involved (Bon Jovi, MLB, NYC, Ticketmaster, Central Park Conservancy, Parks, etc.) wanted the show to come off as a hit for their own reasons.  (Bon Jovi wanted to still seem cool, CPC wanted the numbers to be high so that next time around the city won’t push for a higher maximum capacity, etc.)

Speaking of hooplahs, the one opposing the maximum capacity restriction on the Great Lawn is absurd:

“In 2005, officials with the parks department limited gatherings on the Great Lawn to 50,000 people and capped the number of events at six each year, a controversial decision that officials said was designed to protect the lawn. In January, however, the parks department agreed to stop enforcing the 50,000-person limit, part of a settlement with two antiwar groups that sued the city in federal court after they were denied a permit to hold a mass demonstration on the lawn in 2004.

Under the agreement, the city was also to conduct a study about the use of the Great Lawn for large events. City officials said that while the study was being conducted, the maximum number of people allowed on the lawn would be increased to 75,000.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a lawyer for the Partnership for Civil Justice, a public interest law firm that challenged the regulation on behalf of the two antiwar groups, the National Council of Arab Americans and the Answer Coalition, said the decision to limit the Bon Jovi crowd violated the spirit of the agreement.

‘That lawn has historically held half a million people,’ she said. ‘They have provided no basis to show why it should be so heavily restricted at this point.’” (NYTimes)

Those “historical” moments when the Great Lawn held 500,000?  The 80’s, when acts like Diana Ross and Simon & Garfunkel performed, and the lawn reached a state of being irretrievably compacted and led to erosion into Turtle Pond. The CPC was only just beginning to grow, and the park was a dump.  So sure, throw half a million people on there, just get used to calling it the Great Dustbowl.

3 years ago
#bon jovi #central park #urban sociology 
Inside the tent for the Central Park Conservancy’s Taste of Summer event.
3 years ago
#central park #spotted