Where is zuccotti park in lower manhattan

Everyday I pass the Zuccotti Park on my way from my home to work and back. I simply wanted to stress my appreciation of the beautiful design you created for this park and the careful thought you gave to its functionality.

As you must be well aware, the park is mobbed day and night which is a reflection on both the artistic layout and the desperate need for space which you have given to Lower Manhattan. Following the destruction of Liberty Plaza Park on September 11, , Brookfield Properties hired Cooper Robertson to restore and re-imagine this important public space.

Our design for the park, renamed Zuccotti Park, restores historic pedestrian access from the World Trade Center site to Broadway. The site of a protest against the Tea Act, The Park has taken on further, recent historic significance as the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street protests in Granite benches and tables, honey locust trees, and paving patterns emphasize diagonal access between the World Trade Center site and Broadway.

On the walking surface, five hundred lights behind milk-white glass pavers set flush with the granite slabs transform the park at night. It has been popular with local tourists and financial workers. The park was heavily damaged in the September 11 attacks and subsequent recovery efforts of The plaza was later used as the site of several events commemorating the anniversary of the attacks.

After renovations in , the park was renamed by its current owners, Brookfield Office Properties, after company chairman John Zuccotti. In , the plaza became the site of the Occupy Wall Street protest camp, during which activists occupied the plaza and used it as a staging ground for their protests throughout the Financial District.

On November 5, , summoned by the Sons of Liberty , a huge crowd assembled outside the coffee house to denounce the Tea Act , and agents of the East India Trading Company who were handling cargoes of dutied tea. It was perhaps the first public demonstration in opposition to the Tea Act in the American colonies.

The park was created in by Pittsburgh -based United States Steel, after the property owners negotiated its creation with city officials, in return for a height bonus for an adjacent building at the time of its construction. The park was one of the few open spaces with tables and seats in the Financial District.

Located one block from the World Trade Center , it was covered with debris, and subsequently used as a staging area for the recovery efforts after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, As part of the Lower Manhattan rebuilding efforts, the park was regraded, trees were planted, and the tables and seating restored. It was renamed Zuccotti Park in honor of John E. Zuccotti, former City Planning Commission chairman and first deputy mayor under Abe Beame and the then-chairman of Brookfield Properties, which used private money to renovate the park.

Currently, the park has a wide variety of trees, granite sidewalks, tables and seats, as well as lights built into the ground, which illuminate the area. With its proximity to Ground Zero, Zuccotti Park is a popular tourist destination.

The World Trade Center cross , which was previously housed at St. During the Occupy Wall Street movement, many protesters inhabited Zuccotti Park and spent their days and nights there, despite park rules prohibiting staying overnight.