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UPDATE: April 2025 Pedestrian access from Rector Place through to the Battery Park City Esplanade was restored on March 31, 2025. The remaining fencing will be removed as site restoration concludes over the coming weeks.
UPDATE: March 2025 The parking lane on Rector Place was returned to public use on March 4, 2025.
UPDATE: January 2025 As a result of sub-surface field obstructions discovered during excavation work, as well as adverse weather conditions, this work, originally scheduled to be complete at the end of January 2025, will continue through March 2025. UPDATE: September 2024 To improve safety conditions for site workers the current construction fence will be extended roughly 8′ west, as indicated in the orange polygon below. No additional site demolition, tree removal, or impacts to bench accessibility will occur as a result of this expansion. North-south travel on the Esplanade itself, maintained over the course of the tide gate installation, will also be unimpacted by this expansion.
Beginning August 26, a work zone between the Battery Park City Esplanade and Rector Place (shown in red on the map above) will be established. This is required work to construct a tide gate chamber, which is necessary to prevent storm surge through the existing outfall pipe during storm events. The work, to be conducted on weekdays between 7AM-4PM, will involve demolition and salvage of existing site elements, excavation, installation of shoring and support of excavation equipment, installation of piles, construction of a new chamber and gate around the existing 54” outfall and site restoration. As a result of sub-surface field obstructions discovered during excavation work, as well as adverse weather conditions, this work, originally scheduled to be complete at the end of January 2025, will continue through March 2025.
The Esplanade will not be accessible from Rector Place over the course of this work; it will remain accessible via Albany Street and West Thames Street. North-south travel on the Esplanade itself will also be maintained.
On or about September 3, approximately 200 feet of the parking lane on the north side of Rector Place, west of South End Avenue, will be used for construction staging. The proposed staging area, anticipated to be in place through February 2025, (shown in orange on the above map) will only impact the parking lane. The parking lane on Rector Place was returned to public use on March 4, 2025.
Read more about South Battery Park City Resiliency Project interior drainage improvements here.
The South Battery Park City Resiliency Project (SBPCR) represents one of several projects within the overall Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) Master Plan. SBPCR is a BPCA capital project designed to provide flood risk reduction for Battery Park City and Lower Manhattan in response to increasingly frequent and more severe storms.
