City of Water

City of Water is a documentary about the future of the New York City waterfront by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and the Municipal Art Society.

Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance President Roland Lewis has described how the documentary encapsulates the fulcrum issues that face the waterfront right now. Our generation has been presented with a unique opportunity to change the waterfront. The decisions that are facing us right now will affect our grandchildren.The film premiered on the Brooklyn waterfront on June 21, 2007 and has since been screened at the National Arts Club, Socrates Sculpture Park, EmpireFulton Ferry State Park and Water Taxi Beach in Queens, where it played to an enthralled crowd of residents interested in the river. The film was also screened at the Center for Architecture, New York County Lawyers Association and other venues in 2007, and at the Downtown Alliance and Gotham Center in 2008. The film was broadcast on Channel Thirteen WNET in April and will be screened at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival in May. ........

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