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The Hudson River Park Trust is hanging a display of historical photos from the 1970s to today that show the transformation of the Westside waterfront over the decades. The images, printed on vinyl, will go up on the chain link fence between piers 25 and 26 at the end of N. Moore on May 29 so consider this a sneak peek.
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Some background: After the sharp decline in maritime cargo transport in Manhattan in the 1970s and the demise of the ill-fated Westway plan in the 1980s, much of Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront was largely a derelict landscape of barbed wire, crumbling piers, asphalt parking lots and decaying warehouses. Even so, people were still drawn to the river’s edge.
The show, called “Hudson River Park: Then & Now,” includes some never-before-seen photographs from Tribeca’s own Carl Glassman, the conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark, photographers Alvin Baltrop, Shelley Seccombe, Andreas Sterzing, Irene Liberman and Darleen Rubin.
Icarus-by-Paolo-Buggiani-in-the-Great-Hall-1983-©-Andreas-Sterzing
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Teres-Wydler-Installing-Her-Work-in-the-Great-Hall-1983-©-Andreas-Sterzing
Pier-52-1975–1986-©-2025-Estate-of-Gordon-Matta-Clark-Artists-Rights-Society-ARS-New-York
copyright-1973–2007-by-Shelley-Seccombe
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Good afternoon. When my family moved from SoHo to Independence Plaza in 1975 I was nine years old, lol and as I’m sitting here writing I can picture in my mind what the Westside Highway looked like back then. In fact my father drove a tractor trailer and he would have to drop off the container and pick one up. A guy stood in a small yellow school bus and he had a German shepherd guard dog. All the way at the end of the pier it was falling into the Hudson River. How many people remember The Market Dinner? I will never forget sitting on my grandfather’s balcony watching the ships during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. It was absolutely amazing especially to a nine year old girl. All the different ships in the River and the waster that was spraying were Red White & Blue and the Fireworks were so Amazing. I was so proud to be an American