Rising between 25 and 70 feet above sea level, four man-made hills on the southern tip of New York City’s Governors Island opened to the public in July, one full year ahead of schedule. Dubbed The ...

Designed by Dutch landscape architecture firm West 8, The Hills transform the ice cream cone-shaped flatlands of Governors Island into a topographic roller coaster that rises as high as 70 feet ...

On a sizzling July morning, I return to look at The Hills with new eyes. I rendezvous on the ferry with the outgoing President and CEO of the Trust for Governors Island, Leslie Koch. For a decade ...

Four new hills built on New York City's Governors Island offer sweeping views of the Statute of Liberty and lower Manhattan, unique places to hike and climb, and massive slides that dwarf those ...

By now the hills have entirely blocked out the view ... with some justification, that the plan for Governors Island is part of a larger, continuing process of gentrification in New York City ...

Governors Island is free and open daily ... with several different climbing routes. Or head to the hills: Climb Outlook Hill for 360-degree views of the harbor all the way to the Verrazano ...

When is Governors Island open ... The answer to a man-made urban cityscape is a man-made outdoor park at the island’s Hills, which rise 75 feet above sea level and offer some breathing space ...

While there’s no shortage of fun things to do in NYC with kids, true New Yorkers know the hidden gems, and Governors Island is one of the biggest jewels in our crown. Tucked away in New York Harbor, ...

Governors Island's award-winning park is open to the public every day, along with recreation activities like bike rentals, a Community Climbing Boulder, Hammock Grove, The Hills, Picnic Point ...

with renderings showing shiny sloped buildings covered in vegetation that are intended to evoke the hills of Governors Island. It will include two newly constructed classroom and research ...

Governors Island is getting to work ... rises out of the water on a series of low hills. Looking like the slightly neglected campus of a small liberal-arts college, it’s scattered with brick ...