Millennium Park (Manhattan)

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Millennium Park is a small plaza at Park Row and Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District, just south of City Hall Park. It’s a Greenstreet site designed to look like a tiny forest in the middle of a busy intersection. The park includes a bus turnaround loop that used to be a paved median but was turned into green space around 2000. It was dedicated in November 2000 and named Millennium Park to mark the new century; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called it a gift from the 20th century to New Yorkers of the 21st.

At the park’s southern end is the David Rockefeller Clock, funded by the Downtown Alliance in honor of banker David Rockefeller, who helped keep downtown Manhattan lively. Rockefeller supported projects like the World Trade Center and Battery Park City and helped preserve the South Street Seaport. The clock weighs about 3,500 pounds and is designed in a late 19th-century style to match Victorian fountains and lighting.