7/27/10 Now Open: imagination playground park Near South Street Seaport

imagination playground park at
Burling Slip
South, John & Front Streets
New York City

(212) 463-0334

Cost: Free

For all ages

Directions

Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z to Fulton St/Broadway-Nassau Station
When you exit the subway walk east on Fulton Street and then turn right for one block on South Street. Imagination Playground at Burling Slip will be on your right.

Hours

Summer: 9:30am–6:30pm daily
School Year: 2:30pm–7:00pm daily

imagination playground parks is a site-specific park concept that can be designed and conditioned for any place or community, and includes a full set of imagination playground loose parts and a sculpted landscape, as well as sand and water installations

After six years of research, development, focus groups and testing, the first permanent Imagination Playground at Burling Slip opened on July 27th, 2010, near the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan! It is a collaboration between the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Rockwell Group. Features of this site-specific park include: a ramp, sandpit, slide, cascading water channel, rope climbing structure, masts and pulleys, and a listening forest. Inspired by the commercial activity that took place at historic Burling Slip, loose parts such as burlap bags, buckets, shovels, brooms, carts and fabric are to be incorporated within the play activities. And to reflect the proximity to the East River, buckets, sandbags and wooden dams have been integrated into the water play. Seating and storytelling can happen in the tiered steps of the amphitheater.

Lots more pictures & video of this playground:
http://imaginationplayground.org/