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The Christopher Street Pier is a group of piers in Hudson River Park on the Hudson River waterfront of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, numbered 42, 45, 46, and 51. "Christopher Street Pier" usually refers specifically to Pier 45 opposite W. 10th Street, which can be reached by crossing West Street. [1]
View from One World Trade Center. The Joe DiMaggio Highway, commonly called the West Side Highway and formerly the Miller Highway, is a 5.42-mile-long (8.72 km) mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A), running from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. [2]
Hudson River Park is a waterfront park on the North River (Hudson River) that extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan.The park, a component of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, stretches 4.5 miles (7.2 km) and comprises 550 acres (220 ha), [2] making it the second-largest park in Manhattan after the 843-acre (341 ha) Central Park.
West Side Highway looking north at Gansevoort Street. The collapsed section (removed) is shown at left behind frieze. Looking north at Canal Street. The West Side Elevated Highway (West Side Highway or Miller Highway, named for Julius Miller, Manhattan borough president from 1922 to 1930) was an elevated section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) running along the Hudson River in the New York ...
Parking garage and sports facility. Original Pier 40 located at Clarkson St. 41 West St. and Leroy St. 42 West St. and Morton St. 43 West St. and Barrow St. 44 West St. and Christopher St. 45 West St. and W. 10th St. 46 West St. and Charles St. 51 West St. and Jane St. 52 West St. and Gansevoort St. Deteriorated and demolished.
[6] [22]: 40−51 [25] [26] A pedestrian bridge over the new West Side Highway called a "platform park" would connect the inland park to the shoreline and Piers 62, 63, and 64. [6] [25] [26] In 1986, then-Governor Mario Cuomo created the West Side Task Force, a 22-person panel to propose and evaluate redevelopment plans for the West Side Highway.
In the 1980s, plans circulated to replace the West Side Elevated Highway with an at grade highway going along the West Side south of 42nd Street. The plan called for the highway to run over demolished piers. The superstructure of Pier 54 was demolished in 1991 except for the archway entrance (along with the White Star and Cunard signage).
Pier 66, W. 26th and West Side Highway. 40°45′00″N 74°00′37″W / 40.75°N 74.010278°W / 40.75; -74.010278 ( FRYING PAN SHOALS LIGHTSHIP NO. 115 (lightship Chelsea