Tour 1 explored Battery Park City's southern district, which is home to the Skyscraper Museum and includes some of BPC's earliest landscapes and infrastructure, including the residential enclaves built in the 1990s that followed the 1979 Cooper Eckstut Master Plan. Starting in the Museum's gallery to see historic views of the waterfront, the tour visited South Cove and the green spaces that connect to the Esplanade, the first waterfront park in New York since the Brooklyn Heights Esplanade in 1951. We also learned about current construction underway in Wagner Park, as part of the developing Resilience Action Plan of the BPC Authority.
This program is supported by a Community Partnership with the Battery Park City Authority.
For video tours and future dates, see the overview of the series here.