Hudson River Park Trust

Hudson River Park is excited to announce that we are hiring for an FAO Schwarz Fellow to join our River Project team from 2025-2027! The fellow will assist Hudson River Park’s River Project Department in improving awareness and stewardship of the Hudson River through science and education. - This is a full-time position for a two-year term from 2025-2027 with 37.5 hours per week. The position will begin in June 2025. - Applicants must be college seniors at accredited four-year colleges or universities at the time of application and be eligible to work in the United States for the duration of the two-year Fellowship. - Applications are due by February 1, 2025 9:30PM ET. More information, including the link to apply, can be found at the FAO Schwarz website: https://lnkd.in/gdVheeZ8

We’re thrilled to share that Hudson River Park Trust’s President and CEO, Noreen Doyle, is one of Downtown Express’s inaugural “Downtown Blockstars” — local leaders making a lasting impact on lower Manhattan’s community and culture. Join us in congratulating Noreen on all that her leadership has meant for Hudson River Park and NYC. https://lnkd.in/eRnbF8Eh

We're excited to announce that Pier 57 has won the 2024 Masterworks Award for Best Adaptive Reuse by the The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) of New York! The team is celebrating the accomplishment today at the Pier along with the other MASterworks Award winners. Congratulations to our clients and partners, including Hudson River Park Trust, RXR, Youngwoo & Associates LLC, Google, !melk landscape architecture & urban design, AKRF, TYLin | Silman Structural Solutions, HIGGINS QUASEBARTH & PARTNERS LLC, and many more. Pier 57 transformed a 1950s maritime structure into a new mixed-use destination, including the largest rooftop park in New York City, office space for Google, and new flagship space for City Winery. Great work from the Handel project team of Frank Fusaro, Gary Handel, Rick Kearns, Antonio Donofrio, Mindy S., Jessica Levine, Chun Hsu, David Woshinsky, Thomas Florkewicz, PJ Ross, Jonathan Morefield, Sarah Niesz, Kai-Yu Yu, Shaun Shih, Mat Leung, and Mikhail Kim! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gDEe-G_Z

Come celebrate and learn about Hudson River Park’s Pier 57 with the The Municipal Art Society of New York. Join Hudson River Park Trust President and CEO, Noreen Doyle, at a virtual conversation in celebration of Pier 57, a 2024?MASterworks winner?for Best Adaptive Reuse. Noreen will be joined by team members from HIGGINS QUASEBARTH & PARTNERS LLC and RXR, to discuss how the project came to be, in conversation with MAS President, Elizabeth Goldstein.?The webinar is free to join. https://lnkd.in/eHZYgKFR

The Doe Fund is an integral part of our Park team!

Are you one of the 5,000+ participants of Healthy on the Hudson this season? This beloved program has expanded to 16 weeks of free and fun workouts. We’re bringing on new partners for the 2025 season. If your company is interested in partnering with us, we would love to hear from you! E-mail [email protected] for more information. See you in the Park!

Celebrate the end of our Wetlab season with Hudson River Park Trust! Join us on Wednesday, 10/23 for Release of the Fishes and help return our wildlife back to the River. ?? ?? ?? Event details here: https://lnkd.in/eaa_vGYs.

While cities contribute positively to the environment by reducing urban sprawl and enhancing public transportation, they can create localized heat islands due to the concentration of buildings and human activities. For instance, a New York City block feels, on average, nearly 10 degrees hotter than a nearby rural area would, according to research nonprofit Climate Central, Inc. One of the best ways to mitigate heat island effect is through effective and creative use of rooftops. From solar panels, found on the roof of The Exchange at Larkspur Center in California, to green roofs like the one at Pier 57 in New York, these strategies help to reduce overall temperatures. Solar panels not only cool buildings by absorbing sunlight but also generate clean energy, while green roofs provide insulation and reduce surface temperatures through vegetation. These measures, combined with urban forests and increased green spaces, create sustainable urban environments that balance the benefits of densification with the need for cooler, more comfortable city living. For more on how the green roof at Pier 57 helps combat urban heat island effect, see the story from abc7NY: https://lnkd.in/eAZj2tUV #commercialrealeastate #CRE #Sustainability #UrbanPlanning

Hi MWBE Event Producers! Consider sharing a proposal to produce the Park's SUBMERGE Marine Science Festival (Mary 16 & 17, 2024). Proposals are due October 25th, 2024.

What an enriching few days at Restore America's Estuaries 2024 Coastal & Estuarine Summit! I presented on Monday at the "Innovation in Restoration" session on behalf of Hudson River Park Trust and shared learnings from our habitat enhancement work and exploration of newer video, sonar and eDNA methods being trialed at our Gansevoort Peninsula Site. Our panel showcased living shoreline projects and research from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Atlantic emphasizing the community and ecological benefits that restoration projects can offer and the learnings that can translate across state and national lines. I especially enjoyed the many wonderful panels and conversations that unfolded with old and new partners alike. Siddhartha Hayes and I also contributed a research poster sharing how the Park's WasteShark supplements shoreline cleanups and helps removes in-water plastic debris before it breaks down on our coasts. There were a number of other posters focused on the presence and impacts of plastics as a reminder that we're still in the early stages of understanding how plastics persist and influence the health of our environments, bodies and communities. We also celebrated the work of Park research partners and students who have extended the Park's research capacity and helped us explore new questions about the health of our estuarine waters and wildlife. Thank you Lesley Baggett, Ph.D. for sharing on our three years of research at our Tribeca Habitat Enhancement site and Allison Fitzgerald for collaborating on oyster research for over the last decade+. Your New Jersey City University students' projects were the product of many muddy field days and a lasting partnership! Big congratulations to each of them for presenting their posters at RAE!