Friends Of Race Street Pier

[fsmith]

this should be good, hopefully!

good for the park and for enlivening the waterfront.

i plan on going.

Hopefully, there won't be the usual a...holes maurading through the neighborhood afterwards.

[Illiniwek]

Spray fountains? Poor kids? I'm 35 and I'm willing to admit I've enjoyed a dip or two in the Fountain that Shall Not Be Named. Sometimes it's just too hot.

I've got nothing against the occassional frolic. If you jump into the fountain to celebrate or something, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you jump into the fountain because there's no pool in your neighborhood, that's negligect by the city.

[DCnPhilly]

I've got nothing against the occassional frolic. If you jump into the fountain to celebrate or something, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you jump into the fountain because there's no pool in your neighborhood, that's negligect by the city.

I agree 200%. But since we're not building any pools (and considering some are closed), bring on the interactive fountains.

[MTEMPLE]

Catching up with food and tunes at First Friday on Race Street Pier | PlanPhilly: Planning Philadelphia's Future

[mixiboi]

Race Street getting some art:

Using Art and Design to Activate Public Space
Numen/For Use Public Art Project – $200,000 – City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy – Philadelphia, PA
Supporting local efforts to activate the waterfront, Numen/For Use, a Croatian-Austrian design collective, will create a large-scale interactive installation, its first in the U.S. at the Race Street Pier Park in downtown Philadelphia.

ArtPlace Announces 47 New Grants | ArtPlace

[harryk]

Read more about the Race Street Pier and its history in my book, Philadelphia's Lost Waterfront, issued in 2011 by the History Press (see Philadelphia's Lost Waterfront | Facebook)... My next book, by the way, will be about Northern Liberties (Northern Liberties, Philadelphia: A Brief History).