While seasonal visitors to Governors Island increased 15 percent from last year to 400,000 visitors, the island still struggles to woo year-round occupants despite improvements to infrastructure and spiffed-up parkland. Thirty-three acres of the 172-acre island have been set aside for future development like a hotel or convention center, says WSJ. As of yet, nothing has materialized. [WSJ; previously]
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