![]() The park will have space for roughly 1,000 people, with timed entry reservations between noon and 8 p.m. The timing of the pandemic wasn’t ruinous either, as multiple parks staff noted that the planned Spring 2021 launch had perfectly coincided with New York City’s reopening. ![]() ![]() None of that stood in the way of completion. That fantastic vision proved an engineering headache, threatened at times by wobbly piles and a construction schedule reliant on the migratory patterns of striped bass (the whole structure is held together by an enormous concrete slab, we’re assured). The internationally renowned architect Thomas Heatherwick - of Vessel fame, locally - is said to have imagined Little Island as a magic carpet billowing in the wind.
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