NEW YORK – Earlier this month, Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, Hudson River Park Trust President & CEO Noreen Doyle, RXR CEO Scott Rechler, and Google CFO Ruth Porat helped open an 80,000-square-foot rooftop park at Hudson River Park’s Pier 57, a historic pier that has been successfully restored by a development team led by RXR and featuring Google as the anchor tenant.
[Photo by Jakob Dahlin]
The two-acre public open space offers incredible views of Little Island and New York Harbor, and is now open from 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM daily
The new park delivers on one of the original commitments made by the joint venture between development partners RXR, Young Woo & Associates, and The Baupost Group as part of the pier’s redevelopment, and its creation expands the amount and variety of public open space in Hudson River Park. Other components of the reimagined 633,000 square foot pier now open include 350,000 square feet of commercial office space for Google, the relocated original City Winery, and additional public open space around the pier’s perimeter and to the immediate north and south. The rooftop park will serve as an outdoor screening location for the TriBeCa Film Festival beginning this year. Other uses and amenities for the public will open in Fall 2022.
“Today is a great day to cut the ribbon on a beautiful, new 2-acre rooftop park and let the world know that New York is back,” Governor Hochul said. “This is a win-win for New York and a testament to the innovative, sustainable, and inclusive future we’re working to build, and I thank Google, Hudson River Park Trust, the women and men of labor, and our partners in government for making this day possible.”
“By bringing workers back to the office and creating new green space all New Yorkers can enjoy, this project is helping revitalize our city,” Mayor Adams said. “We are reimagining our communities, so everyone benefits from our prosperity. And with partnerships like this one between the city, the state, and our nonprofit and private sector partners, we are showing New York how to ‘Get Stuff Done’ and do it together.”
Pier 57 epitomizes how public-private partnerships can deliver significant benefits to New York State and City. Under its lease with the Trust, the development partnership led by RXR has invested $410 million to restore Pier 57, which is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The rent from the pier will also support Hudson River Park’s overall care and operations.
Additionally, to help realize the full potential of Pier 57 within its park setting, Google expanded their commitment to include 50,000 square feet of interior public-oriented space on the ground floor that will be developed and managed by Jamestown. When it opens in the fall, this area will include a new food-hall curated by the James Beard Foundation, community space with flexible layouts that will be available for booking by local organizations, and a public gathering place—called the Living Room—with spectacular views of lower Manhattan, the Hudson River, and Little Island. Google is also creating an engaging tech-oriented public classroom to be operated by Hudson River Park’s River Project team that will expand environmental education programming and inspire the next generation of Hudson River stewards and STEM Leaders.
