CONNECTING MANHATTAN’S WEST AND EAST SIDE GREENWAYS
Client
Battery Park Conservancy
Team
Michael Fishman (Principal) Sam Schwartz Engineering
Urban Question
How can the east and west greenways be connected around the tip of lower Manhattan without compromising access for the 3 million visitors to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty on the waterfront or taking up valuable open space within Historic Battery Park?
Urban Answer
Over ¾ of an acre of parkland was created contiguous to Battery Park by narrowing the right of way of Battery Place. This led to the transfer of the bikeway into the park and connected t he east and west greenways around the southern tip of Manhattan through a design mediation with the NYC Parks Department, NYC/NYS Departments of Transportation and the NYC Economic Development Corporation.
