South View

Facing south from Pier 76, the view takes in the skyline of lower Manhattan beside New York Harbor landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty and Freedom Tower. New York’s success grew from this harbor, first valued by the Lenape people for its rich fisheries and oyster beds and later for trade with Dutch merchants. The scene also reflects New York’s rise as the country’s leading industrial port in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while the area now known as Hudson Yards has served over the past four centuries as rural farms, shipping docks, rail yards, and a home to factories and warehouses before becoming a mixed-use development with tall towers and cultural amenities such as the Vessel and the Shed. A portion of the High Line Park, a former elevated rail line, runs through Hudson Yards.

New York, New York · United States