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Highlights

Landscape Features

The Oval

A two-acre lawn with movable chairs offering a grand open space for events and lounging

Battery Urban Farm

A one-acre working farm engaging students and visitors in sustainable growing and environmental stewardship

Battery Playscape

A multi-level, nature-inspired discovery landscape for play, built to flood and recover after storms—the only NYC playground with five ecology zones designed for that

Tiffany & Co. Foundation Woodland

A perennial garden welcoming visitors near the SeaGlass Carousel, bridging the Bikeway Gardens and the Woodland

Bosque Fountain & Garden

A four-acre garden oasis set among 140 mature London plane trees, the largest span of shade Downtown

Monuments & Memorials

Castle Clinton National Monument

A restored circular fort built in 1811 at the tip of Manhattan, later an opera house and immigrant landing depot, now serving as the ticket point for Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island ferries.

American Merchant Mariners Memorial

A waterfront bronze sculpture honoring merchant mariners lost at sea in WWII, whose sinking-ship figures rise and submerge with the tide

Korean War Veterans Memorial

A 15-foot black granite slab cut into a soldier's silhouette, "The Universal Soldier," framing a view straight through to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

Giovanni Da Verrazzano Statue

A larger-than-life bronze bust of the Italian explorer who in 1524 became the first European known to enter New York Bay, paired with an allegorical figure of "Discovery."

Netherlands Monument

A flagpole and carved pedestal presented to New York by the Dutch people in 1926, marking the 1626 founding of New Amsterdam.