Little Island Announces Inaugural Summer Performances
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Little Island, the hottest, tiniest floating public park in New York City, opened to a not-infinitesimal amount of fanfare at the end of May. Everybody loves the $260 million, Barry Diller-funded Hudson River park, which is being treated by New Yorkers as some mix of Instagram backdrop and picnic destination. As if you needed any other reason to make your way over there, the park has announced its first slate of special live events happening there over the next two months, including concerts, ballet performances and more.
The events kick off on the weekend of
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After five years of construction, landscaping, and legal delays, the $260 million, Barry Diller-funded Hudson River park known as Little Island opened to the public last Friday morning. Throughout the weekend it operated at full capacity, which means about 1,000 people at a time.
Some treated Little Island as an Instagram-friendly novelty, while others were in full day-in-the-park mode, settling down on the lush lawns with blankets and books and picnics. Either way, the early reviews from the extremely NYC crowd were almost entirely positive. I like to be the first, said Keith Randall of Jackson Heights, who was hanging with his buddy near the Southeast Overlook when we spoke on Friday afternoon. I want to beat the hype. I want to