The law calls for at least half of the blacktop pier to become park space and paves the way for the relocation of a nearby heliport.
Midtown Manhattan’s Pier 76, a nearly 250,000-square-foot blacktop pier on the Hudson River, is set to become green space and possibly some commercial uses in the coming years, under a new state law that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed this week.at West 36th Street.
Those uses could include “office development, amusement rides and tourist attractions, facilities for waterborne transportation activities and floating restaurants,” a memo on the bill states. But the Hudson River Park Trust, which stewards the four-mile long riverfront park off the West Side Highway, would have the power to make up to 100% of the pier green space, and parking garages would not be permitted.
"Our new law creates a structure for an RFP that will provide funding for the completion of Hudson River Park, new green space for the West Side community, and charts a path forward to free up parkland that has been compromised for decades by the presence of the helipad,” the two lawmakers said in a joint statement on Thursday night.
Pier 76 requires up to $150 million in near-term repairs and reconstruction so that it does not fall out of public use, according to the bill memo. Hochul’s signing of the law comes after a previous task force convened by the Hudson River Park Trustthat found a 17-fold spike in related 311 reports over the past five years. The riverside helipad at West 30th Street, which is overseen by the park trust, is a popular spot for ferrying passengers around the region, including to John F.
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