The ships would dock at Chelsea and then those entering the United States would be ferried from these piers to Ellis Island. If you’re familiar with the movie Titanic, you already have a pretty ...

Chelsea Piers was once one of New York’s busiest ... was drawn as the final docking point for the White Star Line ship, the RMS Titanic, which sunk in April of 1912 after hitting an iceberg ...

Much of the waterfront has been transformed too by creation of Hudson River Park and the Chelsea Piers recreation complex. Pier 59, where the Titanic was to have docked, now houses a driving range.

Fun fact: One of its piers was where the Titanic was heading when it went down in 1912. The team that built Chelsea Piers had little in the way of real-estate development experience. Their goal ...