A pier park and a rooftop farm atop the Javits Center will be built as part of a $51 billion investment in the Midtown West neighbourhood of New York City.
Governor Andrew Cuomo earmarked a significant chunk of his $306 billion infrastructure plan for the city for the neighbourhood while laying out his 2021 agenda.
Plans for Midtown West include turning a police vehicle compound on a waterfront pier into an extension of Hudson River Park.
Top: renovations will continue at Penn Station. Above: Pier 76 will become a part of the Hudson River Park
The pier is currently used to store vehicles confiscated by the police for being parked illegally.
Renders released by the governor's office show the park as a sprawling outdoor seating and dining area, with colourful floor murals and pedestrian and cycle paths around the perimeter. The expansion of the Jacob K Javits Convention Center, led by design consortium LendLease Turner, is already underway and is due to complete in March 2021.
The extension to the venue, which hosts events including the annual ICFF furniture fair, will add 1.2 million square feet of gallery and events space topped by a rooftop pavilion plus an acre of urban farmland.
An extension is planned to the south of Penn Station
Further development of Penn Station, New York's intercity rail hub, is also planned, following the opening of SOM's Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall earlier this month.
Dubbed the Empire Station Complex, significant reconstruction work is pl...