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The Vessel Opens at Hudson Yards
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoConfirmed against contemporaneous coverage of the public opening. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Vessel opened to the public on March 15, 2019".Thomas Heatherwick's climbable honeycomb staircase, The Vessel, opens to the public as the centrepiece of Manhattan's new Hudson Yards district.0.68Construction Begins on New York's Hudson River Rail Tunnel
North River Tunnel, Weehawken, New Jersey
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "construction finally began Nov. 3 on the Hudson River Tunnel portion of the Gateway Program[2]".Crews broke ground on the Hudson Tunnel Project, a new rail tunnel meant to relieve the century-old, storm-damaged North River Tunnel beneath the Hudson River.0.63The Brooklyn Bridge Opens
Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY, USA
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE143.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Brooklyn Bridge opens | May 24, 1883".New York's Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public, completing a 13-year construction effort that Emily Warren Roebling steered to completion after her husband was incapacitated by decompression sickness.0.63Grand Central Madison Opens After $11BN East Side Access Project
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE3.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the station opened as scheduled on that date, with the first train leaving Jamaica at 10:45 am."The MTA's East Side Access project opened Grand Central Madison, a new Long Island Rail Road terminal built in caverns roughly 150 feet beneath Park Avenue.$11B0.63Empire State Development Opens the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoSOM's own project announcement states the Moynihan Train Hall "opens January 1" (2021), corroborated by New York YIMBY's coverage of the public opening that day.[1]A public-private consortium led by Empire State Development opened the $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall inside the former Farley Post Office, giving Amtrak and LIRR riders a new concourse next to the cramped original Penn Station.0.63American Copper Buildings Complete on Manhattan's East River
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE7.7 years agoDated to the end of 2018 because the sources give only a period: the east tower opened "late 2018", completing the pair (the west tower opened in April 2017). The skybridge itself was installed from January 2016.[1]Developer JDS Development Group and architects SHoP completed the American Copper Buildings on Manhattan's East River in 2018, two leaning towers joined by a three-storey glass skybridge.0.61262 Fifth Avenue Rises Over the Empire State Building's Sightlines
ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per archdaily.com[3]: Meganom "is nearing completion" of the tower as of December 2025, with delivery expected in 2026.Five Points Development's slender 262 Fifth Avenue condo tower topped out in Manhattan's NoMad district in 2024 and is on track to open in 2026, drawing criticism for blocking classic views of the nearby Empire State Building.0.60One Vanderbilt Opens Beside Grand Central
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "One Vanderbilt was formally opened with a ceremony three days later, on September 14."One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot supertall office tower beside Grand Central Terminal, formally opened in Midtown Manhattan.$3.3B0.60Hama Hama Oyster Saloon Opens on Hood Canal
Hama Hama Oyster Saloon, 35846, US 101, Hamma Hamma, Mason County, Washington, 98555, United StatesHama Hama Oyster Company
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE12.4 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as April 2014, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]The Robbins family's five-generation oyster farm opens an open-air saloon on the western shore of Hood Canal, serving oysters pulled from the water in view.0.59Little Bird Opens in Fairhope
CONFIRMED76% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoGulf Coast Media[3], publishing the next morning (5 June 2025), reports the grand opening of Little Bird in downtown Fairhope "on Wednesday, June 4", and 4 June 2025 was a Wednesday. The New York Times list gives the month only (June 2025), which agrees.Chef Bill Briand opens a coastal Southern restaurant in a two-storey house in Fairhope, near Mobile, cooking Cajun-leaning dishes such as a dark-roux gumbo.0.59The Park at Penn's Landing Opens Over a Capped I-95
Park at Penn's Landing, Columbus Boulevard at Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106Delaware River Waterfront Corporation
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsThe park's own site gives a pair of years rather than a day: the "11.5-acre civic park under construction along Philadelphia's Central Delaware Waterfront" is "Set to open in 2029/2030".[1]An 11.5-acre civic park on a deck over Interstate 95 and Columbus Boulevard, stitching Old City back to the Delaware River waterfront. PennDOT is building the $329 million cap underneath and the waterfront corporation the park on top of it.0.59Korai Kitchen Opens in Jersey City
576, Summit Avenue, Indian Square, Croxton, Journal Square, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, 07306, United StatesKorai Kitchen
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE8.6 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2018, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Nur-E Gulshan Rahman and her daughter Nur-E Farhana Rahman open a small Bangladeshi restaurant in Jersey City, starting out as a daily home-cooking buffet.0.59
