Transcript: An Acre of `Countryside' Art on New York's West Side

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NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
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October 2, 1994
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LIANE HANSEN, Host: This is Weekend Edition. I'm Liane Hansen. The largest chunk of undeveloped land in Manhattan is a 75 acre plot on the city's West Side, along the Hudson River. Donald Trump bought the land in 1984, and is planning a huge residential and commercial development, but so far the only ground being broken there is a one acre plot, that Stan Herd, an artist from Kansas, has turned into what he calls `crop art.' NPR's `crop art' critic, Melissa Block, visited the site, and has this report.

MELISSA BLOCK, Reporter: Getting to Stan Herd's project takes some doing. You have to walk down past the garbage barge terminal on the Hudson ...

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