Art and Life

As MOMA prepares for the Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfronts exhibit a one million oyster farm is hard at work cleaning thousands of gallons of water a day in the center of New York Harbor. The New York Harbor School eco-dock on Governors Island is approximately 1250 sq/ft. The project was permitted in 3 months time, built and installed 4-8 weeks later, complete with 600,000 oystersfarming underneath with the capacity to grow to one million oysters by next year. The dock serves as The New York Harbor School's first usable presence on Governors Island and will remain their waterfront access component into the future as they move onto the island in 2010, acting as a classroom, boat launch and testing site for water quality and habitat restoration.