Norwegian breakaway pier 88 parking upgrade#
In 2011 the city committed $4 million to renovate and upgrade the cruise terminal to accommodate the ship. Norwegian Cruise Line's ship the Norwegian Breakaway sails year-round out of the New York Passenger Ship Terminal. The renovation plans included the decommissioning of Pier 92 and for the remaining piers to handle three large ships at a time. In 2004, the NYPST piers began another $200 million renovation to accommodate newer and larger cruise ships. Construction began in 1971 and was completed in 1974.
After years of planning, a new terminal was designed around Piers 88-92, to be operated by the Port Authority. The results of this can also be seen in the West Side Highway's diversion eastward from West 57th to 42nd Street.īy the 1960s, the old facilities had deteriorated and lacked the amenities of modern cruise terminals. At the Passenger Terminal, actual Manhattan schist was taken away. The city had previously done this for the Chelsea Piers, however in Chelsea only landfill was removed. The plan was to lengthen a number of existing 800-foot piers, but the US Army Corps of Engineers, who controlled the waterfront dimension, would not allow the extension of the pierhead line farther into the river, so the city was forced to extend the pier by cutting away at the land.
By the 1930s, however, even larger facilities were needed, leading to the construction between 19 of Piers 88-92, each 1,100 feet (340 m) long and 400 feet (120 m) apart. The two southernmost piers, each 1,000 feet long, were initially constructed in the 1920s to keep up with the growth in maritime traffic. They were first designed to replace the Chelsea Piers as the city's luxury liner terminal and accommodate bigger ships that had outgrown the Chelsea Piers. The New York Passenger Ship Terminal originally consisted of Piers 84, 86, 88, 90, 92 and 94, located on the Hudson River between West 44th and West 54th Street. The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal is a ship terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. The Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, lies capsized in the frozen mud at Pier 88 in the winter of 1942
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