Chelsea Piers, officially Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex, is a series of sports and entertainment buildings constructed on four adjoining piers on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is located in the Chelsea neighborhood, on the northern edge of Greenwich Village and the Meatpacking District.

It includes film and television production facilities, a health club, a spa, the city's largest training center for gymnastics, two basketball courts, playing fields for indoor lacrosse and soccer, batting cages, a rock climbing wall and dance studios. In addition there is an AMF Bowling lane, a golf club with driving range, and two full sized ice skating rinks.

Historically, the term Chelsea Piers referred to the luxury liner berths on Manhattan's west side from 1910 to the 1930s.

Most of the major trans-Atlantic liners of the day docked at the piers and they played pivotal roles in the RMS Titanic and RMS Lusitania disasters.

With luxury liners such as the Titanic becoming bigger and bigger, New York City was looking for a new luxury liner dock in the early 1900s. The Navy, which controlled the location and size of piers, refused to let any piers extend further into the North River (the navigation name for the Hudson River south of 30th Street). Ship lines were reluctant to build north of 23rd Street because of infrastructure (including the High Line Rail line) and a train station at 23rd Street and the river was already in place.

The complex also includes a marina for mooring private boats.

George W. Bush fraternity brother Roland W. Betts is the principal owner.


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