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Hudson Yards sprouted during a moment of post-Sept.11 pride and economic uncertainty,
“9·11事件”后，社會上出現了短時間的自滿情緒和經濟不確定性，哈德遜城市廣場項目就是在這樣的背景下誕生的，
with the mayor at the time, Michael R. Bloomberg, vowing to reclaim a neighborhood
因為當時的市長邁克爾·R.布隆伯格發誓要在
that included a stubby collection of brick warehouses, factories and tenements built when the Hudson River docks were busy.
包括哈德遜河碼頭還很繁忙時建造的磚房倉庫、工廠和公寓的區域建一個社區。
In the middle was an unsightly rail yard.
場地中間是一個難看的鐵路基地。
On Friday, when Hudson Yards officially opens,
哈德遜城市廣場周五正式開放時，
a city within a city will rise as the centerpiece of an area bounded by 8th and 12th Avenues from 30th to 42nd Streets.
一座城中城將以第30街到第42街的第8大道和第12大道路段之間的區域的精粹的姿態拔地而起。
The main site, developed by Related Companies and Oxford Properties, was built over the rail yard,
該項目的主要建筑，由相關公司和牛津地產公司共同開發，就建在鐵路基地原址之上，
and it is by some estimates the largest real estate project in New York since Rockefeller Center in the 1930s.
據估計，該建筑群是自30年代洛克菲勒中心建成以來紐約最大的房地產項目。
The $25 billion neighborhood has 13 buildings, including a school and parks, that will bring more than 55,000 employees to new offices there.
這個耗資250億美元的社區共有13棟建筑，其中包括一所學校和幾個公園，將為這里帶來5.5萬多個就業崗位。
There will also be a major dining complex with restaurants run by celebrity chefs like Thomas Keller and David Chang.
廣場還將開設一個有托馬斯·凱勒和大衛·張等名廚入駐的大型綜合餐飲區。
“Without a doubt, we now have millions of square feet of office space and housing we did not have,”
“毫無疑問，過去沒有的數百萬平方英尺的辦公空間和住房，現在我們已經有了，”
said Alexander Garvin, a former commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission,
紐約市規劃委員會前委員亞歷山大·加文說，
who became involved with Hudson Yards in the mid-1990s.
加文上世紀90年代中期開始和哈德遜城市廣場項目有了聯系。
“We have that many more jobs, that many more places for people to live, and that much more property taxes that come into the city.”
“我們有了更多的工作機會，更多供人們居住的地方，也有了更多流入我們城市的財產稅。”
(The Related Companies chairman, Stephen M.Ross, a 78-year-old billionaire who is one of the world’s richest people,
(相關公司董事長，78歲的億萬富豪史蒂芬·M.羅斯是世界上最富有的人之一，
is moving into a penthouse in the 72-story tower, which is known as 35 Hudson Yards.)
他將搬進這座72層大樓的頂層公寓，也就是著名的“哈德遜廣場35號”。)
L. Jay Cross, president of Related Hudson Yards, which oversees the development of the site,
哈德遜相關公司的總裁杰伊·克羅斯負責監督該項目的開發，
said in an interview that the redevelopment would not have gotten off the ground without the subway extension and tax breaks
他在接受采訪時表示，要是沒有地鐵擴建和稅收優惠，重建項目是啟動不了的，
that allowed for new office space to be offered at rates comparable to Midtown’s.
有了那些稅收優惠，廣場新的辦公場所的價格就可以與中城相媲美。
Mr. Cross said it was vital that the city throw its support behind major development projects
克羅斯說，市政府為重大發展項目提供支持，
to ensure that it remained attractive to businesses in an increasingly globalized economy.
確保自己在日益全球化的經濟中能保持對企業的吸引力至關重要。
“With all those old buildings we have in aging Midtown,
“隨著老舊的市中心的建筑逐漸老去，
we have to find a way to build modern buildings to compete with London, Singapore and Tokyo,” he said.
我們必須設法建造現代化的建筑，與倫敦、新加坡和東京競爭。”
Mr. Cross said that as Hudson Yards grows,
克羅斯說，隨著哈德遜城市廣場逐漸壯大，
the city would take in more in property taxes that it could use to pay off the bonds that financed the subway extension.
市政府就能征收更多的財產稅，用來償還為地鐵擴建提供資金的債券。
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