New Life For A South Street Seaport Park

POSTED OCTOBER 1, 2007

Titanic Park, the shady open space with its lighthouse monument at Fulton and Water Streets, is going to be transformed.

Often overlooked as a memorial to the 1,500 victims of that fateful voyage, the featureless space is less than memorable as a park as well. Now, as part of the city’s program to bring new life to the “Fulton Corridor” (including a new park at Burling Slip and renovations of Delury Square and Pearl Street Playground) the city has designs on this small triangular park, too.

“We want to make it more welcoming and usable,” said Lawrence Mauro, Parks Department project manager.

Toward that end, the redesign will incorporate bluestone paving (appropriately set in a wave pattern), a new arrangement of benches, added trees, boulder seating and pockets of plantings native to a tidal zone around the monument.

A water feature will diagonally cross the space. It is meant to represent the area’s coastline before the eastern edge was filled in.

“We took our really big cue from the original water line, which came down Water Street and cut across, over Pearl,” said Claire Dudley, the landscape architect who redesigned the park.

Dudley presented the plan last month to Community Board 1, which endorsed it overwhelmingly.

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