To help convey the changing nature of Town Lake's shorelines, this map provides a comprehensive look at dozens of projects either planned or in progress. Shown are both city projects on public land (A-G) and developments on privately owned land (1-24). Projects noted on map are explained below.

Under a novel agreement that received the mayor's blessing on Tuesday, Penn Praxis would oversee a fast-track planning study of what is being called the Central Delaware waterfront, the stretch from Allegheny Avenue down to Oregon. In the next few months, the institute will hold public meetings, hire specialists, and start a Web site like Seattle's to share its plans with the public. The group, which expects to complete its plan by next summer, wants to have an exposition along the lines of the celebrated Better Philadelphia Exhibition staged by city planner Edmund Bacon in 1947. All the mayor has to do now is stand back and take the credit.

The Kids of Christopher Street
By STEVEN KURUTZ

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The pier itself has been transformed in recent years, and the changes have heightened tensions between residents and the pier kids. Once a crumbling and desolate area that gay men and teenagers claimed for themselves and fashioned into a sort of West Side Casbah, the pier has become a buzzing, crowded part of Hudson River Park.