Starting Monday, September 8, the northern stretch of East River Park , from Houston Street all the way up, will be off-limits for the next two-plus years. It’s the latest (and biggest) closure yet in the city’s massive East Side Coastal Resiliency Project , which is slowly reshaping the beloved riverfront into a stormproof fortress against future Sandy-level floods.

The bad news: Three East Village access points—at Houston, Sixth, and 10th Streets—will close entirely. That means no more loops around the running track, no riverside strolls on the Sixth Street esplanade and no casual hangouts on the grassy knolls north of Houston. The 10th Street overpass has already been closed since July 13, but this next phase takes the rest of the neighborhood’s direct entrances with it. That runni

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