The New York City Economic Development Corporation has unveiled a \u201cmaster plan\u201d for the redevelopment of the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, which would allow for the docking of three large ships, each housing up to 8,000 passengers.<\/p>\n
The 12th Ave. port, which runs from W. 39th St. to W2. 45th St., can currently host a maximum of two 4,000-passenger ships. The overhaul would also completely electrify the port, not to mention modernize its 90 year-old piers.<\/p>\n
The plan still needs to acquire a few stamps of approval, not least the federal government\u2019s. It does not yet have a price tag, and would build on a planned $3.5 billion redevelopment of its sister facility, the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.<\/p>\n
According to the NYCEDC, the reimagined port would be \u201cintegrated\u201d into the surrounding Hudson River Park. They\u2019re touting the plan as the result of a 12-month \u201ccommunity engagement process.\u201d<\/p>\n
A record total of 1.5 million passengers were received by both the Manhattan Cruise Terminal and its Brooklyn counterpart in 2024, the state development agency says, which created 3,000 jobs; while NYC lags behind Caribbean cities as a go-to cruise destination, officials are clearly betting that the sector has room for continued growth in NYC, given how much the Manhattan terminal would expand.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Manhattan Cruise Terminal Master Plan is a bold, forward-looking vision that will redefine the future of cruising in New York City,\u201d NYCEDC President & CEO Andrew Kimball said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy modernizing and electrifying the terminal, this plan will meet urgent industry demands, grow economic impact and tax revenue for the City, and deliver on the community\u2019s longstanding goals for a safer, more sustainable terminal with public access to the waterfront,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
An initial commitment of $20 million would be disbursed for establishing sufficient \u201cshore power\u201d at the expanded port, which is being touted as a means of reducing carbon emissions. This means that docking ships can connect to the NYC grid, thereby allowing them to turn their engines off, or recharge their batteries.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unsurprising that having ships plug into shore power is such an integral part of the plan, given that it\u2019s now illegal to do otherwise.<\/p>\n
Due to lingering community concerns about ship pollution, a bill dubbed the \u201cOur Water Our Air Act\u201d passed into law last year, which essentially mandated the process. Its chief co-sponsors were City Council Members Erik Bottcher and Alex Aviles, who just so happen to represent the districts that contain the Manhattan Cruise Terminal and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, respectively.<\/p>\n
The NYCEDC also believes that the terminal would become a \u201cdynamic multimodal hub for transit and freight delivery.\u201d The plan has been endorsed by the Maritime Association of the Port of New York & New Jersey, which advocates on behalf of commercial shipping interests.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy upgrading marine infrastructure, expanding shore power, and integrating community-focused improvements, the plan strengthens New York Harbor\u2019s position as a global maritime hub while advancing the future needs of port operations,\u201d Maritime Association Executive Director Stephen Lyman said in a statement of his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Economic Development Corporation has unveiled a \u201cmaster plan\u201d for the redevelopment of the Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,20848],"class_list":["post-39623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nycedc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}