Just 25 years ago, the piers along the Hudson River waterfront running through Chelsea were a bleak landscape, a far cry from when luxury ocean liners docked on the West Side berths decades before that.
Cyclone fencing hemmed in the few ventures operating there: warehouses, parking, some industry. And, just a few blocks north, a source of consternation for thousands of New Yorkers since the mid-1970s—the Pier 76 tow pound.
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