This is a good sign, a crane barge works on the segment of the East River Promenade that needs the most work.
View Large – Please be aware: getting a seamless panorama hand-held through a chain link fence is unlikely.

The Lower East Side Ecology Center, still being used as the construction office.

Access to the Promenade is still only between 14th and Houston Streets, but I hope it won’t be long before they let us on the next segment, south and under the bridge to Grand Street. (pictured). The easiest way to bike to the public segment of the promenade from downtown is to cross the FDR at Houston Street and go north a few blocks to the entrance.

Filed under: Architecture, Lower East Side, Manhattan , Construction, East River Park by gamma