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Teardrop Park is one of several green spaces that make up Battery Park City, a community along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan that was created in part with earth and rocks excavated for construction of the ill-fated and nearby World Trade Center complex, which was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.

Designed by innovative landscape architect Michael Van Valkenberg, two-acre Teardrop Park brings a little of the dramatic Hudson River Valley to Battery Park City. Located between Warren and Murray Streets, River Terrace and North End Avenue, Teardrop features a magnificent “Ice Wall,” artwork by Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, a children’s slide, sand boxes, water play, a reading area with rock seats, places to “rock hop,” naturalistic plantings, and much, much more for park lovers to discover.

It is located between Warren Street and Murray Street, east of River Terrace.

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