Five years ago, the Long Island and New York City real estate firm RXR agreed to partner with the SS United States Conservancy to save the famed ocean liner as the centerpiece of a redevelopment project. Now the company and nonprofit have released a detailed proposal they say would be financially viable and create thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue.
But the project seems unlikely to come to fruition in the fabled trans-Atlantic vessel’s original home port of Manhattan because of a lack of interest by state officials.
Meanwhile, survival of the ship is threatened by litigation with the owner of the Philadelphia pier where it is moored.