Amusement Park Rides, Floating Restaurants & More May Be Coming To NYC’s Pier 76
NYC’s Hudson River Park, the nation’s longest riverfront park, not only offers some of the best views in the city, but provides a place for all New Yorkers to come together.
Specifically, Pier 76 was introduced into park boundaries in 2021, after the city replaced a former tow pound building with the 245,000-square foot recreational pier. In fact, the conversion only took a shocking 81 days to complete. The pier currently features public benches, a propeller from the S.S. United States passenger liner, and maybe soon amusement park rides!
When Pier 76 first opened, it was to be a “interim open space” until it would host “public parkland and a revenue generating use.” According to new legislation, the future of Pier 76 can include commercial office development, floating restaurants, facilities for waterborne transportation activities, amusement rides and tourist attractions to fulfill its original mission.
The law was introduced to amend the Hudson River Park Act to add permitted commercial uses on Pier 76. It also states that Pier 76 “faces $150 million in repair and reconstruction costs that must be faced in the near future to avoid the complete removal of the pier for any public use.”
So though no development plans are currently concrete, the future seems bright for Pier 76.
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