Kowsky Plaza

Battery Park City

Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park

Located on the playground of Public School 89

Battery Park

In front of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. he work is set on the ground at the end of the tree-lined walks at the entrance to Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park.

Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, Battery Park

Previous Location

Conrad Hotel

World Financial Center

Located adjacent to Admiral George Dewey Promenade.

Perimeter of park on State Street between Bridge and Pearl Streets

Stuyvesant High School

South side of State Street between Pearl and Water Streets.South wall of building.

In Battery Park, south end of the park, east of Dewey Promenade

East Coast Memorial

<p>The Battery Conservancy was founded to revitalize New York’s birthplace park and its major landmark, Castle Clinton National Monument. The Conservancy designs, builds, maintains, and activates the historic Battery’s 25-acres of public parkland at the southern tip of Manhattan. It partners with the City of New York’s Department of Parks and Recreation and the National Park Service.</p>

  the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy

 Courtesy Battery Conservancy, Rick Darke

 At park's left is&amp;nbsp;Pier A, at park's right is&amp;nbsp;South Ferry Terminal. On the far right is the&amp;nbsp;East River.  

The Battery Conservancy

 Claire Weisz discuses the fountain at the Battery Bosque. 

 Claire Weisz discusses the design plan for the Battery Bosque. 

 South Cove was the result of the Innovative model set up as part of the Master Plan for Battery Park City and includes Stan Ekstut, its architect and master planner as a member of its team with Mary Miss (artist) and Susan Childs (artist). The project covers 3 acres with the goal of making the Hudson River accessible to the public. In fact it was one of the first green spots created along the River as it was transformed from a working waterfront to a more residential/ recreational one. 

 Jean Parker Phifer, NYC architect and author of Public Art New York, reads a selection on South Cove, a public art installation west of Battery Place. 

 Artist Mary Miss, an artist working in the territory between art, architecture and landscape architecture, speaks about her project at the South Cove in Battery Park City- a project she worked on with Susan Child and Stanton Eckstut. The collaboration that created what is today considered one of the country's most significant public artworks begun as "kind of a shotgun marriage" says Mary Miss. 

 Described as a 'little fragment of Ireland' sitting on top of a thin layer of concrete, Dorthea Basile describes the memorial, its features and the famine it commemorates. 

 Artist Brian Tolle won the competition to design the Hunger Memorial which was supposed to commemorate both the Irish Famine itself and address the larger issue of world hunger. Dorthea Basile tells the story behind the competition. 

 Artist Brian Tolle talks about adding inscriptions to the Memorial which was a requirement of the competition and how he elected to create strata infilled with pieces of glass where the text could be placed behind it or changed some time in the future. He also discussed the court cairns or tomb passages at the great court cairns as the inspiration for the passage he created beneath the hill. 

 Artist Brian Tolle describes the construction of the Memorial, beginning with how he decided to 'live' on the Jobsite. Because it was adjacent to the World Trade Center, he goes on to talk about what happened on September 11th and how it impacted the Memorial. 

 In a piece dedicated to hunger awareness, Artist Brian Tolle talks about his ongoing collaboration with sound artists, hunger organizations, historians and even poets to create changing audio content for the Passage. 

 Jean Parker Phifer, NYC architect and author of Public Art New York, reads a selection on The Irish Hunger Memorial, located at the North End Avenue at Vesey Street. 

 David Piscuskas discusses the conception of the memorial, the significance of its site, and the way in which it commemorates the Great Irish Famine and continuing problem of global hunger worldwide. 

 Artist Brian Tolle describes the process of how he got the commission for the artwork and selected his team and began to conceptualize the design. 

 Artist Brian Tolle explains the design process behind the memorial beginning with a competition between the finalist artists. He felt that a figurative piece was not appropriate. Instead, he decided to create a sculpture where the emphasis is on the land itself in its natural state. He wanted to add an authentic historic structure so he began a search for a suitable farmhouse with a historian. He talks about how he was finally able to find a house built in 1820 which the family lived in through the 1960&rsquo;s in Attymass Parish (where the first official death from the Famine occurred). The house was given as a gift from the family that stayed in Ireland to the family that emigrated from Ireland. 