Park in Manhattan, New York
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park (also known as Wagner Park ) is a green space in the
Battery Park City neighborhood of
Manhattan , New York City. The park is sited on landfill from the
World Trade Center site
[1] and opened in 1996.
[2]
[3] It was designed by a partnership of
Rodolfo Machado ,
Jorge Silvetti ,
Hannah/Olin , and
Lynden B. Miller .
[2] The park is named after
Robert F. Wagner Jr. , who helped negotiate the 1979 master plan for Battery Park City
[4] before his sudden death in 1993.
[2] The park is just north of
City Pier A at the southern end of Manhattan.
[5]
As of 2022, the park was being planned for demolition, although locals are fighting to save the park.
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9] The demolition is slated as part of a flood resiliency project, and the plans call for razing and rebuilding the park.
[10]
[11] In response to the public pressure, the committee has enlarged the area dedicated to lawns in the plans, although the rebuilt lawns would still contain 10 percent less green space.
[12]
[13] As of October 2022
[update] , the plans called for removing 48 trees and raising the park's elevation from 11 to 20 feet (3.4 to 6.1 m), where 139 trees would be planted.
[11]
References
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"Wagner Park, From Concept to Construction" . Machado Silvetti . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
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a
b
c Goldberger, Paul (November 24, 1996).
"A Small Park Proves That Size Isn't Everything" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved October 25, 2022 .
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"Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park | The Cultural Landscape Foundation" . www.tclf.org . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
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"Wagner Park - BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY" . bpca.ny.gov . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
^ Glassman, Carl (March 27, 2022).
"Goodbye to Today's Wagner Park. Two Years of Resiliency Redo Lies Ahead" . Tribeca Trib Online .
Archived from the original on April 23, 2022. Retrieved October 14, 2022 .
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"Locals Fight to Save Wagner Park in Lower Manhattan" . NBC New York . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
^ Maldonado, Samantha (May 16, 2022).
"In Battery Park City, Another Plan to Destroy a Green Space In Order to Save It" . The City . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
^ Feldman, Eric (August 16, 2022).
"Pushback to Battery Park City Resiliency Project leads to proposed changes" . www.ny1.com . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
^ Hemphill, Anjali (August 17, 2022).
"Locals Rally to Halt $220M Plan They Say Will Ruin Popular Manhattan Waterfront Park" . MSN . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
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"Resiliency - BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY" . bpca.ny.gov . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .
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a
b Hu, Winnie; Barnard, Anne (October 21, 2022).
"A Plan to Save a Beloved Park From Flooding Has Angered Its Biggest Fans" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved October 25, 2022 .
^ Spivack, Caroline (August 16, 2022).
"Battery Park City resiliency project gets eleventh-hour greenspace boost" . Crain's New York Business . Retrieved October 25, 2022 .
^ Allen, Dashiell (August 18, 2022).
"B.P.C.A. pledges '10 more trees, expanded lawn space' as contentious Wagner Park raze-and-rebuild resiliency project set to start" . The Village Sun . Retrieved August 25, 2022 .