City Pier A

Pier A Harbor House (communément appelé City Pier A) est une jetée municipale sur le fleuve Hudson à Battery Park près de l'extrémité sud de Manhattan à New York. Bien qu'elle n'ait joué aucun rôle comme point de débarquement majeur, elle a également été surnommée ces dernières années « Liberty Gateway ». La jetée A est la dernière jetée historique existante de la ville. La jetée a été ajoutée au registre national des lieux historiques en 1975 et a été désignée monument de New York en 1977.

1. Histoire

Pier A a été construit de 1884 à 1886 pour servir de siège au New York City Board of Dock Commissioners (plus tard connu sous le nom de Department of Docks); il a également servi de résidence à la police du port. L'ingénieur chargé de la construction et de la conception était George Sears Greene Jr. (1837-1922), qui avait été ingénieur en chef du New York City Board of Docks de juillet 1875 à 1898 . Il était le fils de l'ingénieur civil et général de l'Union George S. Greene (1801-1899) . Le toit du bâtiment, en étain, a été peint en vert pour ressembler à la couleur du cuivre oxydé. Lors d'une rénovation menée par la Battery Park City Authority, ce toit a été remplacé par du cuivre. La jetée a été agrandie en 1900 et à nouveau en 1919 avec une horloge installée dans la tour de la jetée en mémoire des 116000 militaires américains décédés pendant la Première Guerre mondiale . L'horloge est une horloge de navire et a été donnée par Daniel G. Reid, fondateur de United States Steel Corporation . L'horloge a été dévoilée à midi le 25 janvier 1919 par le contre-amiral Josiah S. McKean, avec des discours prononcés par le maire John Francis Hylan et le commissaire des quais George Murray Hulbert. Il s'agirait du premier monument commémoratif de la Première Guerre mondiale érigé aux États-Unis . Le service d'incendie de la ville de New York a utilisé la jetée de 1960 à 1992 comme station de bateaux-pompes . En 1991, l'American Merchant Mariners Memorial a été installé sur un brise-lames en pierre reconstruit juste au sud de Pier A, relié à un quai. Conçu par le sculpteur Marisol Escobar, le mémorial représente quatre marins marchands avec leur navire en perdition après avoir été attaqué par un sous-marin pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'un des marins est dans l'eau et est couvert par la mer à chaque marée haute . À partir de 1992, la jetée était vacante et tombait en ruine. Plusieurs propositions de réaménagement ont échoué; par exemple, en 2007, Daniel L. Doctoroff, maire adjoint pour le développement économique, a proposé d'utiliser le bâtiment de la jetée pour le terminal de ferry vers la statue de la Liberté et Ellis Island et d'autres destinations portuaires .

Une restauration de la jetée a commencé en 2009. Le restaurant et bar de Pier A, Pier A Harbor House, a ouvert ses portes au public en novembre 2014 .

1. Dans la culture populaire

La jetée a été brièvement présentée dans le thriller de 1965 Mirage avec Gregory Peck et Diane Baker.

1. Références


1. Liens externes

Daytonian à Manhattan: siège du département des docks de 1886 - Pier A Portail de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme Portail du Registre national des lieux historiques Portail de New York

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City Pier A

Pier A, also known as City Pier A, is a pier in the Hudson River at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was built from 1884 to 1886 as the headquarters of the New York City Board of Dock Commissioners (also known as the Docks Department) and the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Harbor Department. Pier A, the only remaining masonry pier in New York City, contains a two- and three-story structure with a clock tower facing the Hudson River. The pier is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The building atop Pier A was designed by George Sears Greene Jr. The original structure is two stories tall and extends west into the Hudson River; the clock tower at the southwestern corner of the building. The eastern, or inshore, end of Pier A was constructed in 1900 and expanded to three stories in 1904. The pier itself is composed of a concrete deck supported by girders. The building originally housed offices for the NYPD and Docks Department, which were subsequently converted into restaurant spaces. The Department of Docks started constructing the pier in July 1884; although the pier deck was completed in 1885, the building was not finished until early 1886. The NYPD occupied Pier A until 1955, while the Department of Docks relocated to the Battery Maritime Building in 1959. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) used the pier from 1960 to 1992 as a fireboat station. Following a failed attempt to demolish Pier A as part of the development of Battery Park City in the 1970s, the structure was added to the NRHP and became a city landmark. Mayor Ed Koch selected Wings Point Associates to redevelop Pier A in 1988, but the redevelopment was stalled for the next two decades. Pier A was temporarily used as a commuter ferry landing after the September 11 attacks. After the Battery Park City Authority leased Pier A in 2008, it was renovated into a restaurant called Harbor House, which operated from 2014 to 2020.

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