When Battery Park City was just a muddy, mucky landfill, this was a rendering of how it would look in the distant future of the year 2000. (no flying cars, though). New York. 1969
One of the documents my dad brought home from work at the Port Authority, it depicts a Jetsons-like “futurama” Battery Park City from the year 2000.
The view looks south from the North Cove down to the Harbor, Staten Island, Jersey City, Statue of Liberty and the Verrazano Bridge.
I really like the heavy emphasis on slanted pre-stressed concrete (quite modern at the time!) and the twin octagonal buildings connected by air-bridges.
Perhaps they were inspired by the twin towers of the World Trade Center going up just across West Street to the left of this view?
Even on the earliest plans I’ve seen for Battery Park City circa 1967, the concept of a North and South Cove were already included.
The people walking around appear to be enjoying their lives of leisure by the Hudson. But of course... in the future, computers will do all the work!
.
When Battery Park City was just a muddy, mucky landfill, this was a rendering of how it would look in the distant future of the year 2000. (no flying cars, though). New York. 1969
One of the documents my dad brought home from work at the Port Authority, it depicts a Jetsons-like “futurama” Battery Park City from the year 2000.
The view looks south from the North Cove down to the Harbor, Staten Island, Jersey City, Statue of Liberty and the Verrazano Bridge.
I really like the heavy emphasis on slanted pre-stressed concrete (quite modern at the time!) and the twin octagonal buildings connected by air-bridges.
Perhaps they were inspired by the twin towers of the World Trade Center going up just across West Street to the left of this view?
Even on the earliest plans I’ve seen for Battery Park City circa 1967, the concept of a North and South Cove were already included.
The people walking around appear to be enjoying their lives of leisure by the Hudson. But of course... in the future, computers will do all the work!
.