Hudson River Park Trust, which has had Pier 40 parking spaces leased to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a couple decades, is aiming to end its lease with the federal agency when it comes up for renewal.

It’s clearly now become a liability for the park.

“At its creation, the Hudson River Park Trust inherited a 2,000-space public parking garage and Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been contracting for a small number of parking spaces since the early 2000s,” the Trust told its Advisory Council earlier today. “The contract is confined to the provision of parking spaces, and the Trust has no engagement related to enforcement. The Trust is currently in the last year of a five-year parking contract that commenced during the previous federal administration and does not intend to renew or enter into a new contract.”

This was originally covered in 2018 by Sludge, the non-profit investigative journalism site that reports on money and politics, when it examined contracts with ICE in Sanctuary Cities. The publication then released a map last week showing the parking facilities that currently house ICE vehicles, along with every company in the country that does business with the agency. (Thanks to A. for the heads up.)

The five-year contract for “secure local parking spaces for government vehicles” ends this year. Over the course of five years, the agency paid between $150,000 and $169,000 per year, according to the reporting on USASpending.com.