Chalk it up to the pop-up park on Pier One and the Olafur Eliasson waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge, but Fulton Ferry landing has been even more hopping with our tourist friends than usual this summer. “Indeed, visitors, whether they come here by walking over the bridge, by taking the Water Taxi or by one […]

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Succumbing to pressure from those who said the NYC Waterfalls were killing trees and causing other problems, the hours have been cut in half, from 100 a week to 50. The Brooklyn Heights Association had been calling for the falls to be shut off entirely. As of September 8, the new hours of operation (get […]

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Here from Street Films is a tour of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls by bicycle. They write: “The NYC DOT has produced a “Bike the Falls” guide, featuring a map of viewing points and written directions to ensure that seeing the falls by bike is as easy as it is fun. Yesterday, Janette Sadik-Khan lead a “Bike […]

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Even if you’re done with visuals and vids of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls, we highly recommend this one put into our GL Flickr Pool by Josh Derr. It’s a unique view of the top of the Brooklyn Bridge falls that he somehow shot from the bridge. Mr. Derr writes: Personally, I find the view from above […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] This image from the Brooklyn Bridge, looking down on the Olafur Eliasson waterfall comes from Josh Derr.

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“A pair of kayakers who paddled too close to the New York City Waterfalls installation under the Brooklyn Bridge nearly drowned when swift currents and the falls’ suction mechanism capsized their boat, police said. ‘I wanted to get a closer look at the waterfalls, and then it sucked us in,’ said Vladimer Spector, 37, one […]

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Have you joined our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool yet? If not, we’d love to see and post your photos. Please join and/or tag your flickr photos “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of rembrooklyn/flickr] Here’s a very cool shot of the Olafur Eliasson waterfall beneath the Brooklyn Promenade that was placed in our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool by […]

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Here’s Olafur Eliasson’s waterfall on Governors Island (which we consider to be an honorary part of Brooklyn as it is closer to us than Manhattan) viewed up close and personal from the Island itself.

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[Photo courtesy of Charles Andrisano] We owe this gorgeous long exposure of the Brooklyn Bridge and Olafur Eliasson waterfall to Charles Andrisano, who has sent other great photos our way in the past.

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Whether the waterfalls are a letdown or not depends on one’s perspective, but there is certainly a difference in the case of the one beneath the Brooklyn Promenade between the renderings and photos of the real thing.–Brooklyn Heights Blog

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