21 February 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Architecture, Living, Working, Building, New York City
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Hudson Yards is a neighborhood on the
West Side of
Midtown Manhattan, bounded roughly by 30th Street in the south,
43rd Street in the north, the
West Side Highway in the west, and
Eighth Avenue in the east. The area is the site of a large-scale
redevelopment program that is being planned, funded, and constructed under a set of agreements among the
State of New York,
City of New York, and
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), with the aim of expanding the Midtown Manhattan business district westward to the
Hudson River. The program includes a major
rezoning of the
Far West Side, an
extension of the
New York City Subway‘s
7 and
<7> trains to a new
subway station at 34th Street and
11th Avenue, a renovation and expansion of the
Javits Center, and a financing plan to fund the various components. The various components are being planned by
New York City Department of City Planning and
New York City Economic Development Corporation.
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