Bike New York. A GATE TO REMEMBER – PIER 54 May 1, 1999 Take a walk down 11th Avenue, south of the Chelsea Piers, past 14th Street. The dilapidated Pier 54 on the Hudson River Park is nearly all gone, but its White Star Line archway, a memory of its history with the RMS Titanic, remains. In the right light, visitors can still see the outline of lettering spelling out 'Cunard Line' and 'Cunard White Star Line' on the steelwork's pediment. Pier 54 is a long open pier that provides public access. You’ll see a semicircular tower of rusting metal, seemingly awaiting the wrecking ball, at the remains of Pier 54. After a brief stop at Pier 59 to drop off the lifeboats from Titanic, the Carpathia traveled a few blocks south to dock at the Cunard pier, Pier 54. The pier sub-structure remains, jutting out into the Hudson River. The structure is used for open-air events.Above each entrance the facade terminated in a Beaux-Arts-style open pediment, supported by corbels. Instead, the Titanic survivors arrived in New York on the Carpathia, a Cunard Line ship. The Pier is one of Hudson River Park’s main event/performance spaces. Anxious crowds of people, numbering in the thousands, awaited the arrival of the Carpathia and news of loved ones.We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the world’s hidden wonders. Piers 54 and 55 are being combined into one structure that will be completed in 2020. Today the pier's appearance is a far cry from its heyday as the New York terminus for some of the world's most luxurious ocean liners including the Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania. Titanic Memorial at the South Street Seaport, via Flickr cc. Just three years later, in 1915, the ship Lusitania left from Pier 54 before being torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland on May 7. Pier 54 formed part of the Chelsea Piers, officially opened in 1910.
Since the South Street … A Titanic landmark in NYC Former Cunard Pier 54 is part of the former and current Chelsea Piers where luxury liners used to dock. The new structure will contain a park. The arch above the window was formed of wedge-shaped 'voussoirs' with an acanthus-leaf key stone.The story of the Titanic; her passengers and crew, victims and survivors told through the memorials, associated historic landmarks and locations in Great Britain & Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, North America and worldwide.Four days later, some 30,000 New York residents turned out, despite the weather and the late hour, to witness the arrival of the Cunard liner Carpathia with the survivors of the Titanic. The piers extended from West 12th to 23rd Street and were designed by the New York firm of Warren and Wetmore. 705 passengers and crew survived but over 1,500 men, women and children perished.Standing on the seaward-side of West Street and 13th Street, in New York, Pier 54 looks in a sorry state. Four days out of Southampton on her maiden voyage the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank.