Released under the GIC Framework
Renovate NYC's Pier 40 and the Village Community Boathouse as an Abundant Community Facility
Pier 40 and the Village Community Boathouse have been serving New York City for X amount of years.
The rise in price of rents, creeping private real estate developers, and a crumbling national infrastructure have contributed to the cacophony of bureaucratic questions surrounding the facility and a planned solar panel renovation.
Pier 40 and VCB is a public mixed use facility.
Public Rowing, Non-profits and other local businesses
At approximately 10:30 AM, Friday May 13 2011, students from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts launched The King's Tide, a 10 meter crew boat made from Iroko Wood salvaged by VCB members invoking the first phase of a New School initiative to keep Pier 40 in the Commons. The boat was the final project of a year long course called Lang on the Hudson.
Workers
Community
GIC Ideas
More information coming as soon as finals are over.
Also, be mindful of whom you let into your apartment and where you place your wallet. Neighborhood strangers may use a bathroom break as a cover for a small robbery. Luckily, we go to the same Yemeni owned deli; so, there's hope he'll actually appear at tomorrow's 9AM!
Commodity:
Landfills full of raw materials. Skilled, willing, and resilient human resources with strong interpersonal skills, who are focused on
efficiency AND preservation of self, to avoid bodily harm.
Communitas
Custom & Culture:
Many humans adhering to spiritual virtues, major and minor, within their own perceived limitations against the city and irresponsible wealth.
Knowledge:
GIC
Money:
An integral part of the this challenge, money can be accumulated by increasing design efficiency and decreasing materials cost. Labor cost can remain consistent with the existing NYC ethic for commensurate work.
Technology:
GIC
Well-being:
Cardiovascular Health, Knowledge Exchange, Community Service, Communitas, Freedom of Expression
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