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Remember that big 'ol winter park that was opening to the public alongside the East River next week? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is the weather is warming up! The bad news is it melted the park. The press release we received states: "The East River Snow Park is cancelled for Winter Break on Monday, February 16 through Sunday, February 22. Spring came early and unseasonably warm temperatures mean no snow, but stay tuned for more opportunities for winter fun." This......

       

Last night the big Red Bull snowboarding event finally took place at East River Park, with around 20,000 fans sticking it out in bone-chilling weather. 16 riders were lucky enough to drop in from a nine-story structure, but only one took home the 1st prize of $50K: New Jersey’s own Shayne Pospisi. Finland’s Torstein Horgmo took 2nd place, with 3rd going to New Hampshire’s own Scotty Lago and Terje Haakonsen of Norway taking home Best Trick honors for "dropping into the 90-foot tall ramp with his back foot unstrapped from the binding, pulling off a one-footed method air as......

       

That huge ramp in East River Park is finally being put into use. Tonight, 16 professional snowboarders including Shaun White, Pat Moore, and Travis Rice will head down the 9-story ramp before launching into the air onto a "double-sided pyramid landing" in the Red Bull Snowscrapers competition. The snowboarders are competing for a piece of a $100,000 purse. In addition to White, who is coming off 2009 X Games golds in Slopestyle and Superpipe, and other snowboarders, Anthrax is scheduled to perform during tonight's competition. The Red Bull Snowscrapers contest is scheduled to start at......

Snowboarding in Manhattan? Whatever! It's really happening though (it's actually happened before), thanks to the caffeine-pushers at Red Bull who will debut their "Snowscrapers" on the banks of the East RIver next month. While the athletes, who will compete on one big urban jump (for a $100K "purse"), include Olympian Shaun White—the musical guest may be the real sirens of the event. That's right, Anthrax will lull you out of your warm apartments and to the winter wonderland on the waterfront. This all goes down at......

Looks like the little park that could...couldn't. The Williamsburg waterfront park, dubbed East River Park, opened just last year, but now the NY Post is saying it "will be shut for the winter as part of Gov. Paterson's sweeping budget cuts." While the closure will only be from January to March (clearly not the time to be sitting on the waterfront anyway), the NYC Park Advocates group noted, "Closing a park is unheard of in modern times." Perhaps when it makes its triumphant comeback it will have better landscaping, allow pets......

The $150 million reconstruction project on the two mile esplanade between East River park and Battery Park was supposed to be done last year, but you know the drill. Two thirds of the promenade still have a long way to go, and last year the state Department of Environmental Conservation fined the city and contractor Pile Foundation Construction Company $200,000 because workers were allowing the shoreline to erode into the water. Now a DEC spokesman says the company hasn't fixed the problem and the agency wants to revoke the work permit. When

Robert Moses’ legacy may be getting tweaked if organizers of three upcoming exhibitions have their way. The NY Times’ Robin Pogrebin is reporting that the Museum of the City of New York, the Queens Museum of Art and Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery will unveil a three-parter over the next month on the master builder. Columbia University architectural historian Hilary Ballon says that Moses’ achievements have been overlooked. From the Times: Living in New York, one is aware there has been no evident successor or successors to......

The NY Sun has a great article about a few of NYC's open performances spaces by critic Francis Morrone. Most people love outdoor venues unconditionally, but the article is thought-provoking in terms of how these spaces should work with their environments. Various bandshells are mentioned, such as Seuffert Bandshell in Queens and the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, but one Central Park institution gets a serious dressing-down.The problem with many of our city's outdoor performance venues is that they've been dumped into inappropriate settings — and have been designed with......

After last night's crazy Critical Mass where two cops were hurt, the Idiotarod meeting place was moved from Willamsburg to Fort Greene Park (at the monument) at 2:30PM Everyone was alerted by text message. Looks like fears about the police trying to spoil the fun of pushing shopping carts while elaborately costumed were founded. Update 1: The racers will run across the east side of the Manhattan Bridge, and the first Manhattan check point will be at Delancey. Update 2: On the Brooklyn side, at around Plymouth and Water Streets, there......

Lower Manhattan residents became upset when the Parks Department startd to take away 100 trees from East River Park near the Williamsburg Bridge. The NY Post reveals that the Parks Department will actually be replacing the trees with over 200 new ones. The old trees were taken down because they were sickly since they were "planted in dirt that sits atop a concrete bulkhead." You can't make this stuff up. Nice planning, whomever planted the trees back in the day! And it seems the lowest parts of the East River Park, near......

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Are you tired of waiting around for festival season to officially begin? I mean, we've got a whole month to wait for the Siren Fest. So why not get over to the East River Park Amphitheater this weekend for some free music. The lineup this Saturday is as follows: Headliner: June 19, 2004 � Clem Snide � Martha Wainwright � Matty Charles and the Valentines � Jason Anderson......

Gothamist loves the High Line, so we enjoyed kottke's visit to yesterday very much. Other walks to take when the weather is as beautiful as it was yesterday and will be for most of this week (well, there is some rain, but everyone, let's pray): The Battery Park Esplanade Brooklyn Heights Promenade The East River Park Riverside Park...