Tribeca Citizen Self-Driving Cars Are Coming to Lower Manhattan

There are big "leased" signs in the windows of the former Classic Car Club space at the corner of Broome, but Jack Resnick & Sons, which owns 250 Hudson, understandably said that it couldn't share any information. When I poked around elsewhere, I was told General Motors was involved, so I figured it was something akin to Cadillac's marketing boondoggle up the street. But then I looked into the Department of Buildings paperwork for the space, which lists the tenant as GM Cruise LLC. "GM Cruise LLC, commonly referred to as Cruise or Cruise Automation, is an American driverless car company headquartered in San Francisco," according to Wikipedia. "In March 2016, General Motors acquired Cruise for an undisclosed amount, although reports have placed the number from'north of $500 million,' to $580 million, to over $1 billion."