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‘Parking’ plan to save Pier 40

Developer Douglas Durst wants to save Manhattan’s Pier 40 by turning part of it into a valet-parking lot.

Elected officials had proposed trying to save the crumbling pier at West Houston Street in Greenwich Village by allowing housing to be built there, leasing the site for the development to raise money for needed renovations.

But Durst, chairman of Friends of Hudson River Park, opposes such housing plans. “The process of getting [that] done makes it impossible to accomplish in any time frame that would help Pier 40,” he said.

He is instead proposing to create one stacked valet-parking lot, freeing up other parking-lot space there that could then be leased for a high-tech campus or a combination of retail galleries, loft space and office space.