Battery Playscape
Wheelchair accessible
A multi-level discovery landscape for play, inspired by nature, designed post-Storm Sandy to be flood-resilient, fostering environmental and cultural awareness.

📜 A multi-level discovery landscape for play, inspired by nature and designed post-Storm Sandy to be flood-resilient.
🔍 Fosters environmental and cultural awareness through innovative, sustainable, and water-conscious design.

Why Go

🏞️ Explore five unique ecology zones: Bluff, Riverbed, Marsh, Dune, and Meadow
🎭 Experience ShowBox, NYC's first improv/puppet theater in a playground
💡 Enjoy innovative, sustainable, and water-conscious design built to flood and recover
♿ Accessible features including wheelchair transfer platforms for all abilities

Tips

💡 ShowBox is free and available for spontaneous youth performances daily.
🛡️ The unique portal to the 1.4-acre playground ensures children’s safety.

Cost

💰 Free admission for all visitors and performances.

Hours

🕒 Open daily 7am to 6pm (Nov 1 - Mar 1) and 7am to 9pm (Mar 2 - Oct 31).

♿ Accessibility

Wheelchair transfer platforms at slides and Riverbed, accessible Cliff House.

♻️ Sustainability

40,000 sq ft of gardens, salt-water and flood-tolerant plants, bioswales, 30,000-gallon stormwater reservoir.