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Piers Over the Years

This gallery offers the opportunity to see your favorite Hudson River Park piers now side-by-side with windows into the past.

Pier 25

Then

Pier 25, a wasteland before Hudson River Park transformed it, nothing but brown dirt

© Late 1980s Hudson River Park Conservancy

Now

Pier 25 after the transformation now has a green lawn, mini-golf and volleyball courts

© Julienne Schaer

 

Pier 26

Then

© 2018 Carl Glassman / Tribeca Trib

Now

© 2020 Carl Glassman / Tribeca Trib

 

Pier 40

Then

© 2000 Hudson River Park Trust

Now

New ball field turf on Pier 40

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Pier 45

Then

© 1997 Hudson River Park Conservancy

Now

sunset hudson pier 45

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Pier 46

Then

Adults, children anda dog on a wooden Hudson River pier.

© 1977 Shelley Seccombe

Now

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Pier 51

Then

© 1990s Tony Hiss

Now

Pier 51 after the transformation is now a popular childrens playground with climbing bars and slides

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Gansevoort Peninsula

Then

© 2006 Hudson River Park Trust

Now

© Hudson River Park

 

Piers 54 and 55

Then

© 1990s Hudson River Park Conservancy

Now

Aerial view of Little Island, open at Hudson River Park Spring 2021

© 2021 Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Pier 57

Then

© 1990s Hudson River Park Conservancy

Now

© 2022 Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Pier 62

Then

© 1990s Hudson River Park Conservancy

Now

Park visitors enjoy the Pier as the sun sets

© Hudson River Park

 

Pier 63

Then

© 1990s Hudson River Park Conservancy

Now

© 2014 Julienne Schaer

 

Pier 64

Then

© 2002 Hudson River Park Trust

Now

© 2010 Hudson River Park Trust

 

Pier 66

Then

© 1977

Now

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Pier 76

Then

© 2000s Hudson River Park Trust

Now

© 2023 Hudson River Park

 

Pier 84

Then

© 2004 Hudson River Park Trust

Now

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Clinton Cove

Then

© 2002 Hudson River Park Trust

Now

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

Pier 95

Then

© 1996 Hudson River Park Conservancy

Now

© Max Guliani for Hudson River Park

 

Pier 96

Then

© 2002 Hudson River Park Trust

Now

© 2019 Hudson River Park Trust

 

Pier 97

Then

Pier 97 on the Hudson River prior to Hudson River Park's reconstruction of the pier. The pier is largely asphalt with a few cracks in it.

© 2011 Hudson River Park Trust

Now

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