Upcoming Programs

The Museum’s director, Carol Willis, will offer a gallery tour of SKY MARKS | LANDMARKS, which focuses on all the structures in New York designated as individual Landmarks that are “skyscrapers.” Curator’s tours are FREE, but you must book a timed ticket at 3pm on Eventbrite, through the RSVP button.

Tour 1 on Friday, June 16 at 4pm—repeated on June 23— will explore 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. We will visit historic Pier A and South Cove, as well as the green spaces that connect to the Esplanade, the first waterfront park in New York since the Brooklyn Heights Esplanade in 1951. We will also learn about current progress underway in Wagner Park, as part of the developing Resilience Action Plan of the BPC Authority.

Tour 1 on Friday, June 23 at 4pm—a repeat of the tour on Friday, June 16—will explore 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. We will visit historic Pier A and South Cove, as well as the green spaces that connect to the Esplanade, the first waterfront park in New York since the Brooklyn Heights Esplanade in 1951. We will also learn about current progress underway in Wagner Park, as part of the developing Resilience Action Plan of the BPC Authority.

Part architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City’s skyline and streets.

Tour 2 of the Museum’s three thematic walking tours of Battery Park City on Thursday, July 6 at 4pm will focus on the commercial core with its 1980s skyscrapers of the original World Financial Center (now Brookfield Place) by architect Cesar Pelli, as well as the expansive North Cove Marina and its public realm. This walk will investigate how the planning concept of public-private partnership was both the principle and economic engine of the Battery Park City project and how the goals of opening the waterfront to public access and recreation was realized over three decades.

Tour 2 of the Museum’s three thematic walking tours of Battery Park City on Friday, July 21 at 4pm—a repeat of the tour on July 6—will focus on the commercial core with its 1980s skyscrapers of the original World Financial Center (now Brookfield Place) by architect Cesar Pelli, as well as the expansive North Cove Marina and its public realm. This walk will investigate how the planning concept of public-private partnership was both the principle and economic engine of the Battery Park City project and how the goals of opening the waterfront to public access and recreation was realized over three decades.

The third of the Museum’s three thematic walking tours of Battery Park City, on Thursday, August 3 at 4pm, will cover the north residential neighborhood, which was developed in several phases, beginning with Stuyvesant High School at the northeast edge and the esplanade and Rockefeller Park along the Hudson. A diagonal avenue lined with apartment buildings creates one face of the neighborhood, while the inner courts of the large blocks are connected by the delightful Teardrop Park. Located two blocks from ground zero, we will also explore the history and design of the Irish Hunger Memorial completed in 2001. Tour 3 will be repeated on August 11 at 4pm.

The third of the Museum’s three thematic walking tours of Battery Park City, on Friday, August 11 at 4pm—a repeat of the tour on August 3— will cover the north residential neighborhood, which was developed in several phases, beginning with Stuyvesant High School at the northeast edge and the esplanade and Rockefeller Park along the Hudson. A diagonal avenue lined with apartment buildings creates one face of the neighborhood, while the inner courts of the large blocks are connected by the delightful Teardrop Park. Located two blocks from ground zero, we will also explore the history and design of the Irish Hunger Memorial completed in 2001.