Governors Island is open to the public every weekend and public holidays during summer until 30 September.
Also canceled were the Dave Matthews concert, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday on Governors Island, and the weekend Mets games.
This summer, Governors Island, well on its way from dereliction to destination, was visited by 345, 000 people in just 40 days.
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Now under construction, the landscape overhaul of Governors Island will include a Hammock Grove with 50 hammocks for swinging of a gentler kind.
We hopped a ferry to Governors Island to catch some of the best views of Lower Manhattan, including the new World Trade Center site.
Whereas Governors Island may yet end up in the hands of developers, New York is much less nonchalant about the future of Ellis Island.
Forecasts say the heaviest snowfall will extend into eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and governors in all three states have declared states of emergency.
The sometimes contentious issue is among several up for discussion during a weekend gathering of the Council of Great Lakes Governors on this Lake Huron resort island.
Christine Gregoire and Lincoln Chafee, governors of Washington state and Rhode Island, have asked the federal government to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug (like heroin, say) to a Schedule II drug (like morphine) so that doctors can at least prescribe it safely in certain circumstances.
His comment during a Council of Great Lakes Governors panel discussion on this Lake Huron resort island drew applause from government officials, environmental advocates and others in attendance.
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