Roosevelt Island Chain Gang Escapes to Brooklyn For 50 Cent Reality Show - The Money and the Power
You Tube video of 50 Cents Money and Power Roosevelt Island to Brooklyn Chain Gang Race
Contestants on 50 Cent's new MTV reality show The Money And The Power can truly say that they were prisoners on a Roosevelt Island Chain Gang trying to escape from Southpoint Park and make their way through Long Island City to their destination of Camp Curtis on Franklin Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Test your knowledge of the streets of New York after the Crew exits the barbed wire prison gates of Southpoint Park, gets over the Roosevelt Island (36th Avenue) Bridge and attempts to make their way to Brooklyn. Can you map out their route?
Southpoint Park Gate Image from Sean O'SullivanWhile you are watching the Chain Gang escape, give a moment to thinking about helping Roosevelt Island residents stop the proposed Louis Kahn/FDR Memorial from ruining the existing magnificent Southpoint Park views of the NYC skyline and East River waterfront.
2 comments :
I don't understand the arguments against the memorial. The "panoramic views" from the "natural point" of the island are currently unattainable being that there is no good way to reach the tip, and there is a man made plateau there. The criticism that building the memorial would "impose a meaningless geometry on nature" is ridiculous since the only thing currently natural about the site is that it is overgrown from lack of maintenance. The existing plateau of earth that has been built up is about as geometric a triangle as you can get. The only valid argument against the project is it's price, but we all know that the city loves to spend taxpayer money, so we might as well spend it on something to be proud of, like Kahn's FDR Memorial.
Why do you think that the existing panoramic views are currently "unattainable"? Southpoint Park has been open for about 5 years so at any time you or anyone else can just walk down there and enjoy one of the most beautiful unobstructed NYC waterfront views from any point on the sloping lawn.
It is not disputed that if the Kahn memorial is built these views will be blocked by the memorial room and tree allee. The view available of the waterfront will then not be panoramic but only partial from the very tip of the Island or the extreme far East and West sides.
As to the taxpayer money, I do not think in these dire financial times, one should dismiss spending millions of public funds so lightly on a vanity project such as the Kahn memorial particularly when existing parks and other essential municipal services are being cut back so much.
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