The Battery Conservancy

Conservancy Press

Press Releases

• Renowned Architect Frank Gehry To Design His First Playground at The Battery, New York City’s Birthplace
• Castle Clinton Marks 150th Anniversary with Opening of the Battery Bosque and Launch of CastleGarden.org
• Warrie Price Receives the Municipal Art Society of New York’s Evangeline Blashfield Award, July 20, 2004

Articles

• 2008
• Great Outdoors: Galas Take Advantage of City’s Greenery

  The New York Times, Sunday, June 15th, 2008

• Park of Origin(ality)

  The New York Sun, Weekend Edition, June 13-15th, 2008

• Carousel at the Battery Will Give Riders a Fish–eye View

  By Nick Pinto, The Tribeca Trib, May 2008

• Something fishy about the carousel

  Downtown Express, April 25th – May 1, 2008

• First Lady Plants First Blooms

  The New York Sun, Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

• Cultivating Tomorrow’s Gardeners

  AM New York, Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

• First Bloom Project Gets Kids Into the Outdoors

  By Amy Hadley, News 8 Austin, Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

• 2007
• Garden Guide Wins 2007 Wally Award

  Yupo Paper, Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

• Going Green Downtown

  Downtown Alliance, Going Green Downtown, Winter 2007–08

• The Battery Goes Seaward

  By Matthew Schuerman, The New York Observer, Real Estate Section, Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

• Make it Fun, Mr. Gehry

  The Downtown Express, Friday, October 12th, 2007

• The New Downtown

  Tiffany & Co. Advertising Supplement, New York Magazine, October 8th, 2007

• Destination Downtown

  The Newsletter from the Alliance for Downtown New York, Fall, 2007

• Bites for the Battery

  By Jay Cheshes, The Daily News, Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

• Good Food for Outdoors, However It’s Spelled

  By Florence Fabricant, The New York Times, Dining Out Section, Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

• Village Voices

  By Angela Starita, Print Magazine, September/October, 2007

• Uptown Luxury Reaches Downtown

  New York Living, September, 2007

• The Labyrinth Ladies

  By Deborah Barrow, New York Home, July/August, 2007

• Picnick at Battery Park

  By Hugh Merwin, Gothamist, July 24th, 2007

• Battery Playground Will be Gehry’s Gift to City

  By Sarah F. Cox, The Architect’s Newspaper, July 4th, 2007

• New York’s Newest Dive

  By John Rosenthal, Wired, July, 2007

• Pastry Chefs, Refusing to be Sweet

  By Peter Meehan, The New York Times, Dining Out Section, Sunday, June 20th, 2007

• Grant Fest at Tiffany’s: Three Nonprofits Given $1 Million

  By Amanda Gordon, The New York Sun, Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

• Evening Hours: Onward and Outward

  By Bill Cunningham, The New York Times, Sunday Styles Section, Sunday, June 10th, 2007

• This Gehry Work to Revolve Around Play, as in Ground

  By Diane Cardwell, The New York Times, Metro Section, Thursday, June 7th, 2007

• A Talent for Approval

  By Annie Karni, The New York Sun, Thursday, June 7th, 2007

• Out & About: Recharging the Battery’s Park

  By Amanda Gordon, The New York Sun, Thursday, June 7th, 2007

• Designer Playground: Famed Architect to do Battery Site

  By David Seifman, The New York Post, Thursday, June 7th, 2007

• City Charged Up by Battery Park Architect

  By Kathleen Lucadamo, The Daily News, Thursday, June 7th, 2007

• Gehry to Design Downtown Playground

  By Amy Zimmer, Metro, Thursday, June 7th, 2007

• Will Goldfarb is Changing the World, One Kiosk at a Time

  By New York Magazine, Grub Street, Monday, May 21st, 2007

• Stop and Smell the Barrenwort

  By Seth Kugel, The New York Times, Sunday, May 6th, 2007

• Take Home A Little Piece Of Battery Park (Today Only, Please)

  By Sheva Fruitman, The New York Times, Home & Garden Section, Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

• Spring in the City

  By Paula Deitz, The New York Times, Weekend Arts Section, Friday, April 27th, 2007

• Ferry Will Speed from Coney Island to the Battery

  By Alec Appelbaum, The New York Sun, Thursday, January 11th, 2007

• 2006
• El Despertar del Battery Park

  By César Céspedes, Casas, September, 2006

• Part of Early N.Y Wall Displayed in Battery Park

  By Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times, Website, Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

• Lunch at the Four Seasons: Warrie Price

  By Parnay Gupte, The New York Sun, Thursday, June 1st, 2006

• Subway Project Runs Into One More Wall

  By Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times, Metro Section, Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

• Digging for a Subway, but Hitting a Wall, Again

  By Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times, Metro Section, Monday, January 23rd, 2006

• 2005
• Pondering a Wall, and Trying Not to Hit One

  By Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times, Metro Section, Monday, December 19th, 2005

• Unearthed Wall Rests Between Past, Present

  By Matea Gold, The Los Angles Times, National Desk, Monday, December 19th, 2005

• Wall to Wall History

  By David Saltonstall, The Daily News, Friday, December 9th, 2005

• Found: A Wall of Old New York, And It’s Blocking the Subway

  By Patrick McGeehan, The New York Times, Page A1, Thursday, December 8th, 2005

• New York Officials Exult Over Historical Find in Manhattan

  By Richard Pyle, The Associated Press, Thursday, December 8th, 2005

• Souls of the Earth: A Garden for the Millions

  By Stephen Orr, House & Garden, September, 2005

• New Gardens Take Hold In Battery Park

  By Bill Cary, The Journal News, Thursday, August 25, 2005

• The Fort That Let Outsiders In

  By Sam Roberts, The New York Times, Metro Section, Friday, July 29th, 2005

• New Role for New York Castle

  By Claudia Perry, The Star–Ledger, Friday, July 29th, 2005

• Grove at The Battery is Ready to Reopen

  By Anne Raver, The New York Times, Thursday, June 5th, 2005

• The Battery’s Up

  By Stephen Dudley, Town & Country, May 2005

• 2004
• Battery Park Gets a Recharge

  By Jane Garmey, The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, October 26, 2004

• Renewal Promoted for Civic Center

  By Mike McPhee, The Denver Post, Monday, June 14, 2004

• 2003
• New York Social Diary.Com

  Spotlight on the Battery Banquet Gala 2003

• Park’s Rebirth In Manhattan

  By Katia Hetter, Newsday, Wednesday, May 28, 2003

• Spring in Bloem

  By Meeghan Truelove, New York Press, Volume 16, Issue 22, May 28, 2003

• Greening of Lower Manhattan With $25 Million Grant to City

  By Randal C. Archibold, New York Times, Metro Section, Wednesday, May 28, 2003

• Rooms With a View & Grasses With Attitude

  By James Gardner, The New York Sun, Arts & Letters, Architecture, Monday, May, 12, 2003

• Perennial Reminders

  Photo by Dan Hogan Charles, New York Times, May 9th, 2003

• The Quest 400

  Quest Magazine Profile, April 2003

• A ’wild’ tribute takes root in New York City

  By Carol Stickland, Special to The Christian Science Monitor, February 5, 2003

• Nature Replanting Nieuw Amsterdam

  By Anne Raver, New York Times, House and Home, January 16, 2003