Gansevoort is hard to look at

By amNY Posted on April 30, 2015

What artist David Hammons may have seen when he looked out the Whitney’s window toward Gansevoort Peninsula a few years ago. The green marine waste-transfer station has since been demolished and the city’s garbage trucks removed, shifting to the new multi-district garage at Spring and Washington Sts. Photo by Lincoln Anderson

This may be part of the reason why the Whitney Museum of American Art’s terraces face inward, toward the city — the garbage trucks and sheds on Gansevoort Peninsula. The trucks will soon relocate to Spring St. and the peninsula is slated to become a park, but there will also be a marine waste-transfer station for recyclable garbage. “America Is Hard To See” is the name of the Whitney’s opening show. But, well, Gansevoort right now is hard to even look at.