Keith J. Kelly
January 26, 2026
“Parking is going to get a whole lot tougher for ICE agents in New York City.
The Hudson River Park Trust said it won’t renew its parking contract with ICE that allow its vans to be parked in the Pier 40 garage when the current agreement expires at the end of June.
An uproad erupted after the digital news site Hell Gate first reported on ICE’s contract after it dug info after the digital site Sludge published a map that showed ICE contracts across the United States. The map included nearly a dozen firms right here in Manhattan that had lucrative deals with ICE, although only the Hudson River Park Trust was a public entity.
Borough president Brad Hoylman-Sigal said renting the parking spaces to ICE violates New York City’s status as a sanctuary city and has called for the contract to be ended immediately. And thirteen city and state elected officials soon followed, sending a letter to Hudson River Park Trust executive director Noreen Doyle urging her “to make every effort to terminate this contract immediately.””
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