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Public access to City Hall Park is about to get better. The Parks Department has agreed to reopen a part of the park that has been closed since the Giuliani Administration. The section of park in question includes the grassy areas to the east and west of Tweed Courthouse. The area directly around City Hall will still remain closed for security purposes.
The Sun reports that the gates on Broadway and Centre Street could be open as early as July and that additional gates will be opened on Chambers Street. The Chambers Street entrances would be closed when students at a charter school in the Tweed Courthouse arrive and are dismissed. Additional greenery and seating will be added near the subway station in the northeast corner of the park. One supporter of the move said that lower Manhattan "is so starved for park space. We fight for every square inch." Welcome to New York, buddy.
If you do go to the park, be sure not to reenact a movie scene while making gay porn. That could result in a lawsuit.
Photo of fountain in City Hall Park by Tien Mao
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Does this mean they might possibly consider opening the subway station? That would make the MOST AMAZING museum.
Got bit by a squirrel in that park as a kid, twice. Maybe these past years of isolation have made them a bit more docile.
Wait... a taxpayer funded public space is being open to the ... public? Wow, thanks NYC for being so generous with my money.
And since City Hall is so paranoid concerning security, why don't they move their offices somewhere safer - say the top floors of some generic office building - and reopen the entire City Hall Park? As noted above, there seems to be a new residential building opening on every other block downtown, while simultaneously next-to-zero public space is being added to lower Manhattan.
The "supporter of the move" was the director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. His comment was made as a person in a position of preserving park space, so it in no way deserves the "Welcome to New York, buddy" comment. When he says they are fighting for park space, it's not said by a New Yorker looking for somewhere to eat lunch, but as an official trying to better New York through city planning.