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In New York, a Quartet of Waterfalls Makes a Splash

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tours the cascading exhibition, which will remain installed along the East River through Oct. 13. (By Mario Tama -- Getty Images)

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Others felt the visibility of the engineering made the work less sappy, more interesting.

"It's a super-industrialized city," said Max Nicolai, 16, visiting from Seattle. "The waterfall obviously doesn't belong, and it makes you think."

Still others just appreciated the spectacle.

"That's amazing! That's all motion!" called Caesar Intravaia, 53, a Brooklyn-born truck driver, and pointed to where his mother once worked in a factory near the base of one waterfall near Brooklyn Heights.

"Something's moving, it feels good -- otherwise everything stays the same," said Frank Chen, 41, a computer programmer eating lunch by the water.

And then, some appreciated it a little less.

"You see a lot of bonehead drivers," said Gabriel Santos, 27, a taxi driver. "A lot of people will slow down and glance at it. It's just going to cause accidents."

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