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These productions have been videotaped for future GVP broadcasts and public information purposes consistent with our mission to provide information on issues and activities about restoring, revitalizing and enjoying our regional waterways and edges.

Fourth Annual Great Hudson River Paddle visits Athens, NY Featuring: views of event; interviews with Carmella Mantello, executive director, Hudson River Valley Greenway, event participants, and the mayor of Athens, NY.

The Waterfront Museum visits Kingston, NY Summer, 2005, the red wooden barge traveling circus plays at the annual waterfront park festival. Interview with David Sharps, founder. Also includes visit by the fireboat, John J. Harvey, and shows details of Kingston’s Rondout Park, on the Hudson.

Catskill, NY, a Rivertown’s Industrial History
Catskill’s rise and decline as a commercial port in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as described by a local hardware store proprietor with a collection of tools used in river industries.

ELCO - An Electric Boat Revival
A visit to the Elco headquarters and plant at Athens, NY, where CEO Charles Houghton provides a tour of the factory, outlines his company’s history, and describes how their environmentally-friendly boats work. Elco is also cooperating with Athens to create a boat launch and park adjacent to its property.
Bob the Netmaker Now in his 80’s, this Athens resident learned to weave fishing nets from a master Hudson River netmaker in the 1940’s. He demonstrates this craft, which helped provide him with a good income when river fish were commercially viable and safer to eat.



• A Study of Mid-Hudson Riverfront Parks
A tour of selected riverfront parks for a comparative analysis. Athens is preparing to rebuild its public waterfront; will it resemble the one (above, center) designed by the same engineering firm they are considering and recently completed at Coxsackie? Other park examples are found in Albany, Catskill, Hudson and Kingston, NY. Plus: An interview with the skipper of the Clearwater, and his observations on parks and docking along the river.


Harborcamp: The Sloop Clearwater A program to introduce New York City young people to their waterways through class excursions and extracurricular learning activities. Examples include a harbor cruise, where public school students get a crash course in seamanship and marine biology from enthusiastic crewmembers aboard the sloop Clearwater.

The New York Restoration Project
We also visit Swindlers Cove, a program of the NY Restoration Project that features a Harlem River boat building workshop, a luxuriant waterfront park, and a state-of-the-art floating boathouse with meeting rooms and a dock where local youth learn rowing skills.

Last Day at The River Project
A school group shows up for a final field trip to this marine biology station and learning center at Pier 26, North River, before an upcoming pier renovation. The class learns about local marine flora and fauna through hands-on demonstrations from River Project staffers. Also featuring an interview with a visiting Harbor School teacher, and a special River Project nighttime event: “Live From The Bottom” with founder, Cathy Drew and invited speakers.

Architects Waterfront Design Symposium GVP video of a Municipal Art Society/MWA event at the Urban Center, with four architectspresenting examples of their projects and plans for NYC waterfront parks and open spaces.




The Governors Island Flotilla Update: Thanks to continued support from Regional Plan Association and the Governors Island Alliance, a June (4th anniversary) completion date seems likely. New material includes a GIPEC/RPA public meeting and panel discussion at the Urban Center.




North Brooklyn’s Waterfront; The Community Builds a Park
GVP has amassed many hours of video on this subject, and a portion of our 2003 grant request was for completing a production on it, though this remains in-progress. It’s said that, despite extensive PICCED outreach and advice with the 197-A Plans, continuing divisiveness among local advocacy groups has caused some waterfront amenities to be left out of the DCP master plan. Yet there’s evidence of progress with the long-awaited end-of Greenpoint Avenue park (above) which will add much-needed open space on the East River, and a proposed floating pool - although the
conventional rectangle of lawn the community seems satisfied with may leave room for enhancement.