Just released by EDC
Below is basic EDC overview
https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-announces-transformative-manhattan-cruise-terminal-master-plan
Below is an in-depth proposal for the master plan, with some renderings.
No clue about a timeline for this, but it’s definitely a long-term plan
Good Stuff. Keep in mind the Brooklyn Marine Terminal is also getting a full redevelopment as well. These two, LGA, JFK, all of the work in and around GCT, the Gateway program and general work along the NEC, the PABT redevelopment, etc, etc, etc. Great stuff to look forward too as well. And none of that’s to mention the thousands upon thousands of individual construction activities, redevelopments, renovations, and whatnot all happening at the same time.
so happy to see infrastructure upgrades that put us in the year 2025, subways next!
At last week’s Manhattan Community Board 4 full board meeting, the city’s Economic Development Corporation announced that Pier 90 is no longer able to accept cruise ships, leaving Pier 88 as the terminal’s only functioning berth and throwing new urgency — and new skepticism — onto the agency’s sweeping Master Plan to rebuild the West Side terminal and push it hundreds of feet farther into the Hudson River.
EDC says the closure is the inevitable result of decades-old infrastructure finally giving way. Speaking to the board, Allison Dees, a senior project executive at the agency, said the Midtown piers are “really approaching the end of their useful life.” Pier 92, she noted, has been inoperable since about 2019. Pier 90, she said, has seen a “dramatically reduced number of cruise ship calls” in recent years because its interior layout no longer works for modern customs, security and baggage operations. “And actually, starting this year, [on] that pier we are no longer going to be able to accept any additional cruise ship berthing,” Dees told the board. “The infrastructure of both is really deteriorating. This is not a surprise. It’s 100 years old.”
