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The New York Times reports:
Nearly three years after a series of suicides shut down the Vessel, the 150-foot-tall centerpiece of the Hudson Yards complex in Manhattan, the project’s developer said on Friday that it would reopen this year with new safety measures.
The beehive-shaped sculpture, with a labyrinth of about 2,500 steps and 80 landings, opened in 2019, along with much of the rest of Hudson Yards, a gleaming development in Midtown West.
The attraction will reopen once “floor-to-ceiling steel mesh” has been installed on several staircases, said Kathleen Corless, a spokeswoman for Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards. The measure will preserve the “unique experience that has drawn millions of visitors from around the globe,” the company said in a statement.
The New York Post reports:
An exact reopening date for 2024 was not revealed. The top level of the geometric landmark will remain closed because it is not possible to safeguard that part, Related Companies said.
In early 2020, a 19-year-old former rugby player from New Jersey became the first to end his life with a plunge from The Vessel. Shortly before Christmas that same year, Yocheved Gourarie, a 24-year-old Brooklyn woman who had battled anorexia and depression, jumped from the attraction.
Less than a month later, in January 2021, a 21-year-old man suspected of fatally stabbing his mother in Texas also threw himself from the massive structure. The most recent tragedy was 14-year-old Shiv Kulkarni, who leapt to his death in front of his family in July 2021
A pre-closure walking tour is below.
Nearly three years after a series of suicides shut down the Vessel, the 150-foot-tall centerpiece of the Hudson Yards complex in Manhattan, the project’s developer said that it would reopen this year with new safety measures. https://t.co/KlVWYaIg3m
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 13, 2024