A carousel is coming to Battery Park. But don't expect to hop aboard another bobbing horse-unless, perhaps, it's a sea horse

		The carousel pavilion, in the shape of a spiraling shell, will be installed just east of Castle Clinton and will feature 28 marine-life figures created by sculptor Barbara Broughel, bubbled porthole-like windows, and underwater scenes projected onto the carousel's cylinder. The figures will be translucent and fiber-optically illuminated to create the illusion of the "distinct biology and pulse of each creature," Broughel said. "They're going up and down and they are going to go round and round," said Warrie Price, president of The Battery Conservancy. "But it will be a soft gallup, like riding the back of a whale or dolphin." The privately funded $2.5 million Battery Carousel, designed by the architecture firm of Weisz and Yoes
Studio, is a nod to the city's first aquarium, which was housed at Castle Clinton from 1896 to 1941. Community Board 1 approved the carousel design last month. Construction is expected to begin next spring.