Everything to the left of the line would have been water, and everything to the right of the line was land.

Original Shoreline

Hundreds of years ago, the ground floor of St. John’s Terminal would have been the shoreline of what we now call the Hudson River.

Today, St. John’s Terminal sits on land created from filling in the river and supported by massive foundation structures called caissons. Thanks to an adaptive reuse of the existing structure and the caisson foundation, St. John's Terminal is projected to save approximately 78,400 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, compared with creating a new structural foundation. A line on the floor of the Great Hall traces the site’s original Hudson River shoreline.