Intrepid Museum Gets Lift

With the Intrepid aircraft carrier safely removed last fall, construction started on Pier 86 on Manhattan’s West Side waterfront.

The 36,000-ton Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum was moved to Bayonne, N.J., after the United States Navy and Army Corps of Engineers dredged 54,000 cu yd of mud under the ship, which sat in place for nearly 25 years. In the restoration, the entire pier will be demolished except for the original wood piles. The team will drive 360 epoxy-coated steel piles as deep as 180 ft to bedrock and will build a 1,000-ft-long concrete pier with four stair towers and two elevators to provide access to the ship when it returns. The $60 million project would finish in fall 2008.
Skanska USA Building of Parsippany, N.J., is construction manager for the project under a larger $180 million contract with the Hudson River Park Trust that will create 13 public parks on piers from Battery Park City to West 59th Street in Manhattan by 2009.

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