Hudson Yards Vessel Reopens After Suicides With New Rules, Including No Solo Visitors – NBC New York nbcnewyork.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcnewyork.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Just a week after the opening of Thomas Heatherwick’s
Little Island, a floating park on the Hudson River, which has quickly become a crowd favourite among cooped up New Yorkers, the British designer’s troubled
Vessel is due to reopen, to more mixed reactions.
The spiralling, climbable public sculpture closed to the public in January after a 21-year-old man jumped from one of its platforms, the third suicide at the site in less than a year. When it reopens on Friday, new rules will require visitors to come in pairs or groups and buy a $10 ticket at most times, which will help pay for triple the security. The tickets will also include a message from Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, which offers mental health support, telling visitors that “each of you matter to us, and to so many others”.
The Vessel in Hudson Yards will reopen to visitors this week with new rules for access, including a ticket fee and no solo visitors allowed, after three.
A public sculpture on Manhattan's west side will reopen to visitors this week but with new rules for access and a ticket fee, after three suicides at the site.