Buttwhack Falls
It may take a village to raise a child but it takes a place like NYC to raise a waterfall.
Olafur Eliasson’s four “New York City Waterfalls,” a $15.5 million public art project, opened in the New York Harbor after two years of planning.
The installations opened on Thursday morning with a ceremony at South Street Seaport and a publicity blitz by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who criss-crossed four morning television programs to tout the installation.
The mayor said the project, which remains on view through Oct. 13, had gotten 30 permits from government agencies.
The waterfalls were billed as the city’s grandest public art commission since Christo and Jeanne-Claude flooded Central Park with saffron-colored fabric panels for “The Gates” in 2005.
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