Vessel, Manhattan Tourist Site Closed After Suicides, Reopens With New Safety Features

Vessel, Manhattan Tourist Site Closed After Suicides, Reopens With New Safety Features
Vessel, a tourist attraction in Hudson Yards in the Manhattan borough of New York on July 30, 2021. Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—The Vessel, a towering, honeycomb-like sculpture in Manhattan that was popular with tourists before a series of suicides forced its closure in 2021, will reopen Monday with new safety features.

The 150-foot structure opened in 2019 as the centerpiece of the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s West Side. The climbable sculpture with zigzagging stairs drew crowds of tourists, but was closed to the public in 2021 after several people took their own lives by jumping off the structure.