New York Post
New York wins a new park — with an ugly asterisk Pier 55, the gorgeous $250 million park and performing-arts center proposed and mostly funded by media mogul Barry Diller, is back on — with an ugly asterisk. The resurrection came...
Barry Diller revives $250M plan to build floating park at Pier 55 Barry Diller is not giving in to pier pressure after all! The billionaire announced Wednesday that he’s reviving a $250 million plan to transform a rotting Hudson River pier into...
How the city's infrastructure woes set a park up to fail Two global cities, two sets of philanthropists willing to pay for riverfront gardens created by the same superstar designer, Thomas Heatherwick. Both projects abruptly canceled within the past month, after...
A few busybodies have destroyed a dream for NYC The collapse of Barry Diller’s Pier 55 dream is without parallel in the annals of willful, malicious New York City obstructionism. There’s no glimmer of hope, no encouraging lessons to...
Requiem for the Pier 55 park — killed by cranks Consider it a beautiful gift squandered. Billionaire Barry Diller and his fashion- mogul wife, Diane von Furstenberg, just gave up on the Pier 55 project: They won’t be spending and...
Diller upset he wasted 'way more than $40M' on failed park plan Barry Diller is livid. The media mogul says he blew “way more than $40 million” on a vision to transform a decrepit Hudson River pier into a 2.7-acre public park...
De Blasio slams critics who killed billionaire's $100M Hudson park project Mayor de Blasio on Thursday blasted opponents of what he called Barry Diller’s “very generous” $100 million plan to transform a decrepit Hudson River pier, saying he was “disappointed” the...
Billionaire scraps plans for $100M 'Hollywood on the Hudson' Billionaire Barry Diller has yanked a $100 million plan to transform a rotting Hudson River pier off W. 13th Street into a 2.7-acre park with grassy fields and a 700-person...