The Battery Bosque Park travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises, spa and resorts

Today the Bosque fullfill historic Battery Park’s potential as a destination: full of natural abundance, with spaces to sit, eat, and play, it is a lushly planted porch to the vast acreage of New York’s Inner Harbor. The new elements articulate the new curvilinear park geometry. The elliptical Kiosks are derived from a series of arcs and made of certified sustainably-harvested hardwood. The Benches hold up to the punishing wear and tear of relaxing New Yorkers with an absolutely minimal use of material.

Both Kiosks and Benches employ computer controlled manufacturing technology giving the architects direct control over the fabrication of subtly differentiated multiples. A walk-through water feature based on the spiral of Archimedes anchors the northern end of the Bosque.

One of the best feature of the park is the sea-life themed carousel. The SeaGlass project transforms the traditional ride structure into an instrument of the future with digital projection and electrified glass technology, Smart Glass. Its centerpiece is a circular stone fountain with 35 in-ground illuminated jets patterned in a spiral, designed by Weisz Yoes Architecture. Also featured at the bosque is artist Luis Sanguino’s 1973 restored bronze sculpture.

The park is very rich and colorful in its planting and playful in its architecture, a series of public spaces and features that respond to the site’s extraordinary heritage with a contemporary sensibility.