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Nosy Neighbor: What is up with this garage on Harrison?
Back in April, A. sent this note: “What is going on with the ghost garage on Harrison Street next to the historic houses? It’s nothing but unmarked cars, the same model and no license plates. My friend thinks it could be ICE. I think it’s a ghost garage where they want to have it vacant of real cars for the tower construction and filled it up with cars to make it look like a real garage…”
Well, I have no answers! And I have tried. First with Independence Plaza, where the press rep said — after checking with her client — that Icon leases and oversees all garages at Independence Plaza. I have tried emailing Icon several times to no avail. (I guess I could call…) I think the address there is 310 Greenwich; there is no Icon signage around the entrance, as there is for the garage across the street.
G. also sent a note and M. grabbed photos for me as well back in May. I then stopped by this month and chatted with the attendant — through the closed door — and nothing.
Any guesses?
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I can confirm based on discussions with staff at Independence Plaza that this is indeed and unfortunately ICE.
You can confirm this? How? Shame on everyone involved in this story. You often go around and take pictures inside a garage? And TC prints this? Everyone involved here is guilty of trying to stir the pot. Its on all of you if/when after reading this, someone goes into the garage and commits an act of vandalism.
A2, people deserve to know if ICE is operating in their own neighborhood. That’s not stirring the pot, that’s called reporting. If a factual comment upsets you more than ICE’s killings do, you’re missing the point.
Spot on, Julie! Thank you for standing up to A2’s ignorance.
I am sickened at the thought that ICE is storing cars in our neighborhood to use against our neighbors. Stellar is pretty rotten to begin with, but this is a whole new level of repulsive
A2……really??? Did you really say that? Absolutely amazing.
How are they legal to drive in NYC with no license plates?
Pier 40 was a little more than 1/4 mile from ICE on Varick Street. This garage would be substantially farther away.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on the hunt for parking in Lower Manhattan — but they’re not just circling the block waiting for a spot to open up. Instead, they’re looking to rent out a whole parking lot.
“ICE put out a call for information from parties interested in securing a contract with the agency for up to 150 parking spaces, according to a government procurement document posted online on April 16. The infamous immigration enforcement agency is looking for a lot in the vicinity of its Varick Street field office in Hudson Square, just south of downtown New York City’s tony West Village. […]
“There are at least a dozen parking garages within a quarter mile of the office operated by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations at Varick and West Houston streets, the distance specified in the request for information […]”
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/21/ice-new-york-cars-parking/