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$100M Project Will Extend Greenway from Upper East Side
City officials recently commemorated the start of construction on the East Midtown Greenway (EMG), a new waterfront public open space. The project, which will stretch from East 53rd to East 61st streets, is part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway initiative to create accessible waterfront public space and safe bicycle pathways along Manhattan’s entire perimeter.
The EMG will create a continuous 40-foot-wide esplanade over the water parallel to FDR Drive. The approximately $100-million project, which will create roughly 1.5 acres of new waterfront park space, is expected to be completed by 2022.
The EMG will be the first major waterfront gap in Manhattan filled since the Riverside Park’s Riverwalk opened in 2010. In 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would invest $250 million to begin closing the remaining gaps in 32 miles of Manhattan waterfront esplanade, starting with stretches in Inwood, Harlem, East Harlem and Midtown.
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