2010 New York/New Jersey Waterfront Conference Presented By The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Tuesday November 30 & Searching For Noel The Fisherman With WNYC's Radio Rookies

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The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance (MWA) is a great organization that works to make the New York City waterfront a better place. According to the MWA:

The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance works to transform the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Waterways to make them cleaner and more accessible, a vibrant place to play, learn and work with great parks, great jobs and great transportation for all.

The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance envisions a New York and New Jersey harbor and waterways alive with commerce and recreation; where sailboats, kayaks and pleasure craft share the waterways with commuter ferries, barges and container ships; where beautiful, cared-for parks are connected by affordable waterborne transit; where there are dozens of exciting waterfront destinations that reflect the vitality and diversity of the great metropolis that surrounds it; a waterfront that is no longer walled off by highways and rails, or by private luxury residences; a waterfront that is a shared precious resource and is accessible to all. MWA is a leadership organization that will make this vision real for our region.

The MWA will be holding it's 2010 Waterfront Conference on Tuesday November 30. If you are interested in learning what the future of New York's waterfront, including the Roosevelt Island waterfront, will be like and how you can help improve it, this conference is the place to be. From the MWA:

The Future Waterfront &
Funding for the NY-NJ Harbor

The 2010 MWA Waterfront Conference is the region’s preeminent gathering of waterfront advocates, businesses, and government leaders to exchange ideas and best practices, and to plan for a greater waterfront in the NY-NJ metropolitan area.

The next 10 years will bring stunning changes to the New York City and Northern New Jersey Waterfront. Never before have so many opportunities and challenges converged. 2010 will bring New York City’s first Comprehensive Waterfront Plan in a generation. Will this plan be adequate? How will we implement it? A world-class waterfront is an expensive but worth-while investment. How can we secure the necessary capital dollars to build it and maintain it? How can New York and New Jersey get its share of funding for the restoration and improvement of our neglected estuary?

These questions and more will be answered at the 2010 Waterfront Conference. It will galvanize support, build energy and excitement, and continue the momentum needed to create a world-class waterfront and harbor for New York and New Jersey.

The conference program is here and an excerpt from MWA's excellent documentary City Of Water is below.

"City of Water" trailer from MAS on Vimeo.

Also, the WNYC Radio Rookies have a Roosevelt Island waterfront story to tell as they search for the purportedly famous Noel the Roosevelt Island Fisherman. Watch their video to see if they find him.

You Tube Video of Noel Who?