The City Council is floating a wild money-making scheme — to rent out the iconic Brooklyn Bridge’s hidden rooms — to help plug the Big Apple’s cash hole.
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Tucked inside the world-famous span’s stone anchorages is a total of 13,000 square feet of hidden vaults that once hosted art shows but has been locked up since 2001.
The City Council is floating a wild money-making scheme — to rent out the iconic Brooklyn Bridge’s hidden rooms — to help plug the Big Apple’s cash hole. REUTERS The space is currently being used as a glorified parking garage for city-owned vehicles.
Instead of storing cars there, the council suggested City Hall slap a “For Rent” sign on the front of the vaults to raise much-needed cash.
At average Manhattan rents, the city could rake in about $17 million a year if it fully leased the space, according to council estimates.
The bridge’s rented rooms could start coughing up the millions of dollars as early as fiscal 2027, the council wrote in its budget response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s own controversial spending plan Wednesday.
