Project details:

5. LENAPEHOKING / CHP NE Plaza renovation Proposal

NE Plaza Renovation

Approximate drawing not to scale.

For more NE Plaza historic photos: click History Gallery, then scroll down.

Chalk drawings of bollards, Boulders, benches, signs, tables:

  • 5 Lenapehoking Boulders from rural upstate Lenapehoking territory. Provided by Lenape Center.

  • 2 DOT Street Co-naming signs “LENAPEHOKING (Lenape Homeland)” (Please scroll up to top for current draft “CB1 Street Co-naming Application”).

  • NYC Parks historical signs - Brief text about the Boulders, Plaza, Lenape, & Lenapehoking; illustration & map of forest land where CHP is; map of Lenapehoking region; historic photos of plaza, and other artwork; e.g. Collect Pond Park signs:

Boulder in Battery Park City

•  Park amenities: 2 5-bike racks, 2 chess tables, 2 6-foot benches, 3 9-foot benches, and 6 9-foot backless benches (parallel to and about 4 feet from the CH fence).

• Vehicle protection security capital improvement: Add traffic fence and high curb along plaza’s eastern border, Centre St west-side curb; new bollards at 3 of plaza’s 6 sidewalk-level entrances.

•  NYC Parks: Repair dangerous bluestone pavement (see photos below).

• MTA leaking glass bricks: Repair, permanently cover, or replace; remove construction fence (obstructs pedestrian movement, attracts obscene graffiti, accumulates trash, since summer 2020). (See photos below).