Hudson Park and Boulevard

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol/ Allied Works Architecture

Hargreaves Associates/TEN Arquitectos

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates/Toshiko Mori Architect

West 8/ Mathews Nielsen/ Weisz + Yoes

WORK Architecture Company/ Balmori Associate

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol/ Allied Works Architecture

Hargreaves Associates/TEN Arquitectos

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates/Toshiko Mori Architect

West 8/ Mathews Nielsen/ Weisz + Yoes

WORK Architecture Company/ Balmori Associate

This RFP is being issued for the selection of a multi-disciplinary team to work with
DDC, HYDC, DPR, DCP and DOT to design the Hudson Park and Boulevard and
create a streetscape plan for the Hudson Yards area. The selected team should
include architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers…  more

This RFP is being issued for the selection of a multi-disciplinary team to work with
DDC, HYDC, DPR, DCP and DOT to design the Hudson Park and Boulevard and
create a streetscape plan for the Hudson Yards area. The selected team should
include architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, civil engineers, traffic engineers, public artists and/or arts organizations, and other
professionals working in a collaborative manner. The design team selected through
this RFP process shall be led by an architecture firm, a landscape architecture firm,
or an urban design firm.

The deliverables will be as follows:
• For the Hudson Park and Boulevard: (A) full design and 100% construction contract documents (Plans, Specifications and Estimate) for Phase 1, and (B) schematic of Phase 2. (See Appendices 1 and 2, respectively, for a description and map of the phases of Hudson Park and Boulevard).
o The Contract shall include an option for the Department of Design and Construction to cause the Consultant to prepare 100% construction contract documents for Phase 2 within one (1) year after the completion of schematic design of Phase 2.
• For Hudson Yards area streetscape, full design of the streetscape components described in Section III below, and a streetscape plan for the area bounded by 10th and 11th Avenues and West 33rd and West 36th Streets and for the north and south sides of West 33rd and West 34th Streets between 11th and 12th Avenues.

Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately 4-acre system of broad tree-lined parks and open space and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 39th Streets. Hudson Park will extend from West 33rd to West 39th Streets and will provide op…  more

Hudson Park and Boulevard will be an approximately 4-acre system of broad tree-lined parks and open space and an adjacent street that will be constructed between 10th and 11th Avenues from West 33rd to West 39th Streets. Hudson Park will extend from West 33rd to West 39th Streets and will provide open space for residents, workers and visitors in the Hudson Yards area. Hudson Boulevard will extend from West 33rd to West 38th Streets on the east side of Hudson Park and from West 35th to West 38th Streets on the west side of Hudson Park.

The City’s budget for the construction of Phase I of Hudson Park and Boulevard is approximately $27 million, comprised of $8 million for the Hudson Park component, $16 million for the Hudson Boulevard component, and $3 million for streetscape. The City’s cost estimate in 2008 dollars for the construction of Phase 2 is approximately $69 million, comprised of $5 million for the Hudson Park component, $56 million for a platform over Amtrak, $6 million for the Hudson Boulevard component, and $2 million for streetscape. Phase 2 will be constructed as funds become available, and may be constructed by the City or private entities.

Hudson Park and Boulevard will be a fundamental part of the Hudson Yards neighborhood. Its creation will serve three urban design principles: to create public open space, to facilitate access to new development and to create city blocks that are well suited for development. The prescribed location and alignment creates blocks flanking the Boulevard that are similar in size to those between Park and Madison Avenues, thereby resulting in ideal footprints for development of Class A office buildings, hotels and mid- and high-rise apartment buildings. Hudson Park and Boulevard will be aligned directly north of the approximately 6-acre open space that will be developed on the Eastern Rail Yard.

An amendment to the City Map was filed on November 3, 2006 to establish the legal grades and boundaries of the Hudson Park and Boulevard system according to the 2005 rezoning.

The Hudson Park and Boulevard system will be constructed in three phases.
Phase 1: The portion of the system between West 33rd and 36th Streets. Phase 1
includes the re-grading of portions of West 34th, 35th and 36th Streets between 10th and 11th Avenues. Phase 1 will be constructed over the pedestrian circulation and fare control areas for the 34th Street Station of the No. 7 Subway Extension, and the Mid-Block Garage. Phase 1 will be constructed by the City. Construction is expected to begin in 2011 with completion in 2012.

Phase 2: The portion of the system between West 36th and 42nd Streets. No funding is currently available to construct Phase 2. It will be constructed as funds become available, and may be constructed by the City or private entities.

Phase 2a. West 36th to 39th Streets: Because the below-grade Amtrak Empire Line right-of way runs beneath most of this section of Hudson Park and Boulevard, this area will be built on a series of platforms over the Amtrak right-of-way. These platforms will need to be integrated into the existing cross-town City street network and the existing bridges over the Amtrak right-of-way.

Phase 2b. Pedestrian Connection from West 39th to 42nd Streets: The
Hudson Yards Development Program calls for the extension of the Hudson
Park system from West 39th Street to West 42nd Street via a pedestrian
connection. This connection will span over the Port Authority properties
located between West 39th and West 41st Streets, midblock between 10th and
11th Avenues, known as Galvin Plaza and Cardinal Stepinac Place. These
properties function as roadways and entrances to the northern tube of the
Lincoln Tunnel. The pedestrian connection would be located within an area
that is approximately 60 feet in width with a lower limiting plane approximately
16 feet above existing grade. Between West 41st and 42nd streets, the
pedestrian connection would be located between 10th and 11th Avenues, with
an entrance at 42nd Street.