Material: Bronze
The plaza, designed by artists Siah Armajani and Scott Burton contains two inscriptions from both poets bound to the railing in big bronze letters, “City of the Sea!…City of wharves and stores-city of tall facades of marble and iron! Proud and passionate city!” (City of Ships, Whitman) and “One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes-I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a radio store or some other sign that people do no totally regret life” (Meditations in an Emergency, O’hara).
