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NYC Waterfalls Make a Splash

Posted Jun 26, 08 7:30 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  US 

(Newser) – New Yorkers can feast their eyes on an unusual site over the next four months—waterfalls. Four manmade falls, each about 100 feet high, came to life yesterday at different sites along the East River, the Daily News reports. City officials hope the structures—the work of artist Olafur Eliasson—will bring in loads of tourists before they come down in October.

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Water pours from a man-made waterfall at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Thursday, June 26, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Onlookers on a tour boat cover from rain as they view a man-made waterfall on the Brooklyn Pier cascade into the East River in New York, Thursday June 26, 2008.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
A man-made waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge cascades into the East River in New York, Thursday June 26, 2008.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Denmark-born artist Olafur Eliasson stands for a photo at the South Street Seaport overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River Thursday, June 12, 2008.   (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Water cascade from an art project, covering the support pillars on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Thursday, June 26, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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