Coenties Slip

Coenties Slip bet. Pearl St. and Water St.

Manhattan

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Coenties Slip, once a berth for sailing vessels that was filled in and became a street, is now a park in Lower Manhattan. In 2006, a triangular traffic island was reconstructed as a granite and bluestone sitting area with benches, plantings and a formal central plaza. The park is a popular outdoor gathering place in the middle of the downtown business district.

The park has a two-tiered bluestone plaza with radial granite steps leading to the upper plaza, which has park benches surrounding the park’s centerpiece, Brian Hunt’s curving metal sculpture, “Coenties Ship,” which commemorates the city’s important maritime history. The sculpture is set atop a bell-shaped pedestal made of cast glass with inlaid decorative glass pavers. Together, the cast glass swirl panels in the pedestal, the radial cut bluestone pavers, and the swirl steel bands in the pavement provide a perfect counterpoint to the upward swirl of the glass pedestal and cast stainless steel sculpture.

This site is maintained by NYC Parks and the Alliance for Downtown New York but is under the jurisdiction of the NYC Department of Transportation.

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