Hudson Yards Sculpture ‘Vessel’ To Reopen With Nets After Suicides Prompted Closure

Visitors will be able to walk up The Vessel, Thomas Heatherwick’s gleaming sculpture at Hudson Yards later this year, after several suicides closed public access in 2021.New “cut-resistant” steel mesh barriers will be installed on several of the sculpture’s stairways and platforms, and the top level will stay off limits to visitors, according to the Associated Press, which first reported the news. Several suicides forced a closure of the 150-foot structure. A spokesperson