Focusing on Christopher Street Pier’s history of evicting the marginalized communities of New York, the project focuses on the significance of its “blighted” existence. Once labeled as spoiled, dirty, and derelict, the pier became the object of an act of gentrification which destroyed the safe haven that it was once considered to be. Christopher St Pier (also known as Pier 45) alongside the whole of the Hudson River Park are in constant surveillance through an abundance of security cameras placed along the whole promenade and piers. Hidden from the public, the presence of the cameras question the contentions between the pier’s domesticity and safety. Without the use of elements of enclosement such as walls and roofs, my project obfuscates the cameras’ views. The large open space becomes a confusing landscape of beams and columns that designate specific pathways to the space while creating private nooks for the current programme which involves sunbathing and general hangout spaces. Through the superimposition of these elements around the whole pier, the relationship between domesticity and surveillance takes the physical form of allowing the space to be more intimate at its densest locations and more abstract in the areas where the cameras aren’t placed- creating a tension between who labels a place as blighted and how public space can be imagined in a more individual, personal way.