Public Art With Slave Imagery Rejected By City Because People Do Pilates in the Park
Observer
Ok, we're super late to this travesty, but check it out: the City of New York is asking an African-American artist to make his work more digestible for the Boho billionaire wives club crowd that likes to do yoga in the greenway along the Hudson River …
NYC Threatens to Ban Artist's “Problematic” Public SculptureArtforum

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Paddleboard Pilates Is Coming to the Hudson River
Racked NY (blog)
If exercising on dry ground is getting a little dull, how about some paddleboard Pilates along the Hudson River? One of Manhattan Kayak Company's instructors, Shannon MacDowell, told DNAinfo that she plans to introduce paddleboard Pilates in August, …

Paddleboard Yoga and Pilates Lets New Yorkers Embrace The Hudson
DNAinfo
Located at West 26th Street and the Hudson River, the Manhattan Kayak Company launched a paddleboard yoga class last summer, but MacDowell and other staff members decided to add sitting pilates poses to the class after realizing just how much the …