Award winning filmmaker Rose Rosenblatt (The Education of Shelby Knox) teamed up with community members to create the video REALIZE HUDSON RISE, featuring Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Casey Affleck, Michael Stipe, Kirsten Dunst, John Slattery, Talia Balsam, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany and others. This video illuminates the history of recently restored Canal Park and the surrounding neighborhood, and warns that history is threatening to repeat itself with another failure of city planning that would devastate this community for generations to come. The video offers a solution exemplified by the AIA-award winning alternative design Hudson Rise, which will address city infrastructure needs and also usher in a sustainable urban future with green open space for all to enjoy.

The City wants you to believe that there's nothing particularly burdensome about a salt shed, or that it's just another new building. But the fact don't conform to what they say...and "5,000 tons" is a lot more trouble than they're admitting.