The Hudson River Park Trust, the corporation whose mission is to design, construct, operate and maintain Hudson River Park, will not renew its contract with the Trump administration.

The trust entered a series of partnerships with the city and the Department of Homeland Security as early as 2004, allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to park their vehicles at the Pier 40 parking garage in Manhattan.

The current five-year contract that went into effect in July 2021 provides “secure spaces” at a cost of $150,000 per year and is set to expire at the end of June 2026.

According to Shalini Ramaswamy, a spokesperson for the Hudson River Park Trust, the contract went into effect during the previous administration and the Trust “does not intend to renew the contract.” 

Ramaswamy added that the trust has no relation to enforcement operations and that the contract only provides parking spaces.

In 2018, when former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo openly voiced his disapproval of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, a Sludge report revealed that the contract was worth $426,000. 

The report also revealed that the Department of Motor Vehicles had a $15,000 contract with ICE.

In that same year, former City Councilmember Carlos Menchaca introduced a bill to prohibit New York City from contracting with entities involved in immigration enforcement, but the bill was never officially passed.

Councilmember Shekar Krishnan reintroduced the bill in 2022, but it still has not become a law.

According to The City, some of the vehicles parked at the Pier 40 garage were vans with caged enclosures used by ICE to transport immigrants to and from the central processing court located at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

In late 2025, multiple anti-ICE protesters used their bodies, potted plants and trash cans to block similar ICE vehicles from advancing and taking people to Federal Plaza.

In cities like Chicago, where immigration enforcement escalated following the deployment of National Guard troops, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently signed legislation banning the use of parking lots as staging areas for ICE raids.

President Donald Trump has pledged to crack down on illegal immigration nationwide since taking office in 2025.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he is in favor of abolishing ICE, as the organization “has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist.”