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CITY'S YARDS-WORK
PLAN FOR NEW PARK REVEALED
PARK-ING PLACE:The city's Hudson Yards project includes a pedestrian bridge
a park with a playground
By TOM TOPOUSIS
March 24, 2008
The city's long-sought plan to transform the Far West Side into a new commercial and residential district takes a step forward today, with the launch of a search for firms interested in designing a park and boulevard at the heart of the project.
The boulevard and park are key parts of the Hudson Yards plan proposed by the Bloomberg administration, which has detailed what it would like to see built in newly released sketches.
The boulevard and park will run north-south between 10th and 11th avenues, eventually stretching from 33rd Street to 39th Street.
"As the city grows it becomes increasingly difficult to create significant new open space. However, this park and boulevard will provide dynamic new green space for residents, workers and visitors in the Hudson Yards neighborhood, an area that is woefully lacking in open space today," said Ann Weisbrod, president of the Hudson Yards Development Corp.
A master plan calls for an estimated 24 million square feet of new office space - more than double what's being planned at the World Trade Center - to be built in the district by 2032.
The first phase, from 33rd to 36th Street is expected to be complete in 2012. The city has acquired all of the buildings in that three-block section of the boulevard's path.
Plans call for a 30-foot-wide, tree-lined boulevard and a four-acre park.
Funding for the project is coming out of the $3 billion in bonds the city is selling to pay for an extension of the No. 7 subway line to 11th Avenue and 34th Street.
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