ESPLANADE CONSTRUCTION UPDATES

East Midtown Greenway Project
Connecting Walkway including the 54th St Bridge leading to the 60th St and Andrew Haswell Green Park is scheduled to be completed December 2023.
East Midtown Greenway Project Link

East Harlem Waterfront and Pier 107 Reconstruction Project
(94th - 107 St and 114th - 124th St) is in community planning stages. Construction scheduled to begin early 2025.
East Harlem Waterfront Project Link

East Harlem Proposed Concept July 13, 2023 107 Pier-BWW_Community Workshop 2_English.pdf (edc.nyc)

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Beautification Project
is constructing improvements on the Esplanade from 72nd to 78th St including an ADA compliant outdoor fitness center at 75th St. HSS will be bidding out the work Summer 2023 and ask contractors for consideration to keep the Esplanade throughway open where possible. Once this stage is completed, determination and schedule will be shared Fall 2023.
HSS Fitness Center Link

East Midtown Greenway Nears Completion Along The Sutton Place Waterfront In Midtown, Manhattan

As Appeared in NY Yimby Magazine

BY: MICHAEL YOUNG AND MATT PRUZNICK ON MARCH 4, 2023

Work is closing in on completion on the East Midtown Greenway, a 1.8-acre public promenade along the East River waterfront in Sutton Place. Designed by Stantec, the 2,000-foot-long plaza runs from East 53rd to 61st Streets and is the second phase of the three-segment East Midtown Waterfront Esplanade, which will eventually stretch down to East 38th Street with recreation space for pedestrians and bicyclists. The $100 million project is located to the east of the FDR Drive and will also include a new park entrance at East 60th Street, a pedestrian bridge, and the revamping of Andrew Haswell Green Park and the Alice Aycock Pavilion.

Recent photographs taken in the late afternoon show the elevated pathway replete with seating, shrubbery, drinking fountains, lamp posts, metal railings, and large stone slabs. The reinforced concrete platform is supported by piers rising from the East River, and will offer visitors panoramic views of the Queensboro Bridge to the north, Roosevelt Island and Long Island City to the east, the rising developments of Hunters Point and Greenpoint to the southeast, and the Williamsburg Bridge and Downtown Brooklyn skyline to the south. When complete, the East Midtown Greenway will create a continuous 32-mile loop around Manhattan.

Construction restarted in October 2020 and is slated for completion this fall.