Horatio Street Blog

Christine Quinn (Council Speaker) is holding a meeting next week regarding use of the newly reconfigured Gansevoort Plaza.

We decided to set this up after we heard a lot of concern from neighborhood residents and businesses about how often and what sort of events will be allowed in the plaza.

The new plaza formation is a pilot program to ease traffic issues and increase pedestrian safety, so plaza use as event space is obviously a very important issue to discuss! While there may be feedback on the pilot project itself, that is larger issue that CB2 will be holding meetings on in the future.

A representative from Horatio Street Association will attend. What opinions would you like represented? What questions would you like asked? Do you want events at night, clowns, performances, art shows, salsa lessons, readings for children, dog shows, live bands, fashion shows, a landing pod for spacecraft? The one use that was discussed at the planning meeting for the plaza was a greenmarket one afternoon (say 3PM - 9PM).

The one use so far was the Google Art Party.

Now we, the community, can voice our opinions about use. Post your comments to the blog or email them directly to Christine Quinn’s office:
kseely-kirk@council.nyc.gov