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	Gates, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gates is a town in Monroe County, New York.
		Gates is also a census-designated place located in Monroe County, New York.
		The Town of Gates was organized in 1797 as Northampton in Ontario County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gates,_New_York (507 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Christo's Gates
		For his 9-year-old sister, Bella, on her first visit to New York, confronting "The Gates" was another in a series of crucial discoveries: the brilliant lights of Times Square, and Century 21, the bargain store near ground zero, where Bella acquired the very cool shirt she was wearing.
		And the 16-foot-high orange gates are free of advertising.
		Davenport said that while he fully expected New York to be expensive, he found that labor, trucking and parking were so much more expensive than he anticipated that the project's costs grew to more than $20 million from the $15 million he originally projected.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /CP/cp-gates.htm (12170 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Christo: The Gates, Central Park
		Christo said New York inspired him as ``probably the most walking place in the world,'' and that the only places where people walk for pleasure are the parks.
		The couple moved to New York two years ago to work on "The Gates." It is by far their biggest logistical undertaking, bigger than wrapping the Reichstag or planting a forest of giant umbrellas in rice paddies near Tokyo.
		NEW YORK, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be signing copies of New York Magazine, which includes a drawing of The Gates, on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 from 4 to 6:30 PM at the Central Park Boathouse.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=2926&pp=50 (15319 words)

	Wild Writing Women at The Gates in New York City
		All of New York (and a goodly number of visitors, many European) seemed to be in the park Sunday morning.
		The gates themselves formed, in many places, a kind of cloistered walkway, with brilliant orange-yellow panels of luminescent nylon fabric fluttering overhead from thick, 16-foot high wickets of the same color (the exact color of monks' robes in Southeast Asia, in fact).
		Seeing the park--the world--in new ways, taking the path never taken before, or walking the length of the park for the first time as I did, are powerful responses to a work of art.
	www.wildwritingwomen.com /dispatches/amazinggates (594 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bill Gates gives New York City schools $51 million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NEW YORK — The charitable foundation created by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will give $51 million to create 67 small public high schools in New York City, Gates announced Wednesday.
		The New York City school district is the nation's largest and has one of the highest dropout rates.
		Gates is driving the national effort to replace traditional, comprehensive high schools with smaller schools, says Thomas Toch, author of the 2003 book High Schools on a Human Scale.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-09-17-gates_x.htm (520 words)

	The Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, announced, on January 22, 2003, that a 43-page contract had been signed permitting New York artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to realize their temporary work of art: The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005, the fabrication of all the materials was started.
		The 7,503 gates, 16 feet (4,87 meters) tall vary in width from 5 feet 6 inches to 18 feet (1,68 to 5,48 meters) according to the 25 different widths of walkways, on 23 miles (37 kilometers) of walkways in Central Park.
		The gates and the fabric panels were seen from far away through the leafless branches of the trees.
	www.christojeanneclaude.net /tg.html (1085 words)

	Artists Erect Thousands of Colorful Gates in New York's Central Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Even New Yorkers who have followed all the buzz surrounding the project were taken by surprise entering the park during the days leading up to the opening of the project [February 12].
		New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benape notes that it took the couple 26 years to get all the permits for The Gates.
		On the other hand, the Hackett family of Leeds, England came upon The Gates by chance as they visited New York before the project was completed…and Martin Hackett was thrilled, even though the saffron panels were yet to be unfurled.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2005-02/2005-02-12-voa16.cfm (825 words)

	'Gates' boosted New York economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NEW YORK -- "The Gates" was "a daring labor of love," Mayor Michael Bloomberg says and the 7,503 pieces of saffron fabric being dismantled this week leave a financial imprint: $254 million spent by visitors to the Central Park installation.
		Bloomberg boasted Thursday during a news conference at Mickey Mantle's restaurant on Central Park South that the intent of the event was to provide "a big, bold project that would set our city apart.
		"The Gates" even benefited New York cultural institutions as far away as Queens, where the PS 1 Contemporary Art Center reported a 100 percent increase in attendance.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05064/466534.stm (536 words)

	New York unfurls ‘The Gates’ - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		NEW YORK - “The Gates” are open — all 7,500 of ’em.
		The biggest art project in New York City’s history debuted Saturday in Central Park with the unfurling of saffron-colored fabric banners suspended in 16-foot-high frames, providing a splash of sunrise 26 years in the making.
		Whether “The Gates” is deemed art or not, the work accomplished no small feat: It nudged thousands of New Yorkers out of bed on a freezing Saturday morning.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6954562 (805 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Alice Walker (b. 1944)
		After transferring to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Walker continued her studies as well as her involvement in civil rights.
		Walker's appreciation for her matrilineal literary history is evidenced by the numerous reviews and articles she has published to acquaint new generations of readers with writers like Zora Neale Hurston.
		Donna Haisty Winchell, Alice Walker (New York: Twayne, 1992).
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-998 (1755 words)

	Christo's 'The Gates' Has New York Debut
		NEW YORK—With flowing fabric the color of a sunrise, “The Gates” a massive public art installation in Central Park, was unfurled Saturday for the start of a 16-day stay transforming miles of footpaths in Central Park.
		The weather was windy and cold as the first fabric dropped from one of the 7,500 16-foot-high gates, creating what the artists billed as “a visual golden river” along 23 miles of the park’s footpaths.
		Sibyl Rubottom, who saw the artists’ “The Umbrellas,” in which 3,100 umbrellas were opened in California and Japan in 1991, said she started planning her trip to New York from San Diego last spring.
	www.sacunion.com /pages/nation/print/2461 (588 words)

	new york 'gates' still sparking debate - Alicia Anstead
		A few weeks ago, when I stopped for coffee at a local variety store, I overheard conversations about "The Gates," the temporary outdoor public art project that was on display for 16 days last month in New York City's Central Park.
		He was thinking about the "Gates," he said, and, as a collage artist, thought he might find a way to pay homage to it in his own mixed-media wall hangings.
		One homemaker had taken advantage of her sons' school break to zip down to the city so they could see what is, so far, the largest public installation of the 21st century (and the largest ever in New York City).
	www.bangornews.com /news/templates?a=110086&z=14 (867 words)

	Forgotten Delights: Christo's Gates in New York's Central Park, Feb. 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New York City officials have granted permission for The Gates to stand in Central Park for 16 days, beginning February 12, 2005.
		If you examine every fiber of the million square feet of fabric, you won’t be a nanometer closer to knowing what sort of person you’d like to be, what you should focus on, what sort of world you’d like to live in.
		The twenty-year controversy over whether to allow The Gates to be erected in Central Park was driven largely by fears of the work’s environmental impact.
	www.forgottendelights.com /essays/ChristosGates.htm (1116 words)

	CBC Arts: New York buzzing over Christo's 'Gates'
		NEW YORK - A sea of saffron fabric fluttered in Central Park Saturday as Christo and Jeanne-Claude unfurled their latest monumental installation.
		Though some of the materials were moved into the park in December, the arches and cocoons of fabric were raised over five days this week by close to 600 people who answered the artists' call for help installing the arches.
		New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg approved the installation in January 2003.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/02/12/Arts/christogates050212.html (838 words)

	greents
		We are, they say, at the dawn of a new age.
		New resource-saving techniques--chiefly for energy, farming, and forestry--generally work better and cost less than present methods that destabilize the earth's climate (Lovins and Lovins, 1991, p.
		According to the National Academy of Sciences, "a consensus is emerging in the engineering, utility, and regulatory communities that, even when past efficiency gains and projected population and economic expansion are considered, an additional, significant reduction can be made in U.S. residential and commercial electricity consumption.
	www.is.wayne.edu /mnissani/pagepub/greents.htm (4015 words)

	Bill Gates' Web Site - Speeches: New York Institute of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And that is to use it as an educational tool for the new generation.
		All the new books, the periodicals, and even the books from the past that are hard to get when they're in paper form.
		HENRY "SKIP" GATES: You know, we're all familiar with the dire statistics about the digital divide, about what we think of as "cyber-segregation." We're very much in danger of becoming two societies in the 21st Century, one white and plugged in, and one fl and unplugged.
	www.microsoft.com /billgates/speeches/10-28GenI.asp (5823 words)

	The Gates New York City Central Park
		New York Follow-up; The Gates, Central Park, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude:
		For the most part, my trip to New York City was wonderful (not counting the day I spent in the sales tax office waiting for the permit they "lost in the mail").
		Artexpo New York was the largest indoor show in which I had ever exhibited.
	www.borsheimarts.com /news/2005_04.htm (1914 words)

	The Gates @ Central Park
		Well, the Gates have come and gone; some people think it was an artistic triumph and a boon for New York; others think it was a crock and a waste of resources.
		When the sun was out and the sky clear, the gates are each slightly transparent, and full of shadows, shadows of other gates, of trees, of park objects, fences, even people at a distance.
		The gates themselves are also getting incorporated into the life of the park - from children playing on the stands, leaving behind collections of pine cones or a lost mitten, to dogs marking their territory.
	nycgates.blogspot.com (1788 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > 'The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005' Christo ...
		The dismantling of the 7,500 gates was to start first thing Monday, and every last scrap has to be gone by March 15.
		While New York basks in the glow of "The Gates," some Colorado residents are idly wondering when Christo and Jeanne-Claude will go ahead with their next project.
		The paid volunteers installing Christo's "Gates" in Central Park share a common bond: a resolve to be a part of the city's biggest public-art happening ever.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/arts/design/GATES-REF.html (1027 words)

	Town of Gates: A Community for All People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You will find that Gates is a progressive community with a population of almost 30,000 people.
		Webster's Dictionary defines renaissance as "to be born again" and that is certainly true of Gates.
		We have become a town that is vitally alive and heading in new directions, without sacrificing our past successes.
	www.townofgates.org (365 words)

	The Gates - New York Magazine Art Review
		Their desire to be part of a larger idea, to crusade for the useless and delightful in a society where everything must have a purpose and a price, is finally utopian in spirit.
		The Gates is a form of visual pollution, in that view, an example of the hype and Philistinism perpetrated by the middle-class American mob.
		Everyone knows that pushing anything through the New York bureaucracy is hopeless, but, together with the mayor, they dreamed the impossible dream.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/art/reviews/11134 (1235 words)

	THE GATES in New York's Central Park
		These metallic frames form a sort of passageway through the soul of New York City, for at least New Yorkers see their famous park as just that: a central core, a touchstone of greenery, in the heart of their steel and concrete wonderland.
		If one stands on the edge of the park looking down, it is an arresting visual to see The Gates on a cold winter's day, the orange material flowing in the breeze against the backdrop of the stark city and the bare trees under the unrelenting gray sky.
		In becoming a sort of moving accouterment to the pathways of the park, The Gates at once is a thing that seems animated and yet is grounded in place.
	journals.aol.com /vicl04/VictorLana/entries/1067 (464 words)

	Visiting Christo's Gates in New York
		When we first got to the park yesterday, it was immediately apparent that Christo's Gates in New York City's Central Park is the ultimate public art project.
		The gates are massive--they crawl all over the park in every direction, up hills, down to tunnels, and over bridges.
		The other interesting thing about the Gates is that the shocking color opened my eyes to everything else around me in a different way.
	rubertstudios.com /christo1.htm (660 words)

	THE GATES OF NEW YORK
		There were a total of 60 kilometers of vinyl beams extruded to make the supports from which the orange fabric is hanging.
		A special leveling system was designed such that the Gates stand straight up and down, even on the hilly terrain.
		This exhibit has been in the works for 26 years; the original plan was to dig 30,000 holes to "plant" up to 15,000 gates; but it was decided that so much digging would damage the park.
	www.shyc.us /id110.htm (611 words)

	The Gates in Central Park - the Passion of the Christos
		The Gates, in Central Park, 26 years in the making, mile upon mile of billowing fabric, is the largest artwork since the Sphinx.
		The Gates, which is being financed entirely by the Christos, with not a penny of grants, city money, or donations, is budgeted at $20 million—which translates to a lot of collages, drawings, sketches, and models.
		Each of the gates is sixteen feet high, secured to a heavy metal base and trailing a swath of bright saffron-colored fabric, all of which, together in the wind, will create a shimmering river of color.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/features/10897 (861 words)

	Restaurants in Gates New York Restaurant Reviews
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	www.diningguide411.com /restaurants/United_States/NY/Gates (428 words)

	See Christo's The Gates project in New York on 43 Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I happened to be in New York on the particular Saturday that The Gates opened.
		There were tons of people and news crews and photographers, and I was so happy to be a part of it.
		It was also nice to see something that brought a number of New Yorkers out and together, everyone was really happy and enjoying themselves.
	www.43things.com /things/view/43578 (500 words)

	CNN.com - 'The Gates' open up in New York - Feb 18, 2005
		You may have heard something about their previous work, like when they wrapped the German parliament in Berlin in silver fabric and installed a running fence of white fabric up and down the hills of northern California.
		Visitors are flocking to New York in what is normally a slow tourist season because the whole thing lasts just 16 days.
		The full title of the project is "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005.'' That's the 26 years it took the artists to get the city to approve the project.
	www.cnn.com /2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/18/the.gates (401 words)

	Echo Online :: Features :: Large crowds of art lovers venture through 'The Gates' in New York
		NEW YORK --More than 700,000 art lovers walked through The Gates over the weekend -- bringing record crowds to Central Park, according to early estimates.
		The saffron-colored sheets billowing across 23 miles of footpaths attracted throngs far larger than are seen on the sunniest of spring days, said city Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe.
		The Gates is the creation of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who erected the 7,500 15-foot-tall gates at no cost to the city.
	www.easternecho.com /cgi-bin/story.cgi?4517 (415 words)

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