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The Governors Island GondolaA once seemingly implausible method of transporting visitors from the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park to a someday to be reopened Governors Island by gondola is officially part of the city and state plan for the mothballed former Coast Guard base.
To demonstrate its support for the Euro-flavored mode of transport, city and state officials trotted out architect Santiago Calatrava - best known for his soon to be magnificent PATH train station at Ground Zero - at a press conference this week to show off his pod-like air train.
Access to the jewel of New York harbor, just a half-mile off the Brooklyn waterfront, has stymied planners for years.
But six months ago, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff floated a plan for a network of gondolas linking recreation areas on the Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan waterfronts to the island.
Calatrava said he volunteered to design the model.
At Wednesday's press conference, reporters were skeptical.
When one asked about the effect of wind on cable cars dangling 200 feet over the water, Mayor Bloomberg gestured toward Calatrava and said, "That's why he's an architect."
The mayor's confidence in Calatrava was immediately slammed by his onetime mayoral rival, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Bensonhurst).
"I am concerned that the elevated gondola
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