Fake Beach

Will New York City be taking a cue from Paris Plages? Living in the city doesn't mean giving up the pleasures of nature — at least that's how Blayne Ross sees it. The entrepreneur, along with his buddies Matt Berman and Andrew Kotchen of workshop/apd and Nathaniel Stanton of Craft Engineering, have conjured up a plan that will bring an artificial beach to a site on the Hudson River by 2016. The new "beach" would boast a food court, retail, and apparently a surf shop in case you forget your bathing suit (assuming you're brave enough to take a dip in the Hudson).
More on the project here