Pearl Street Playground opened to the public on June 1, 2012

Last week, downtowns newest playground opened in the Seaport area. Pearl Street Playground is now welcoming families to enjoy its colorful new park, with expanded landscaping, new benches, and improved pedestrian circulation. The work completes a project the New York City Parks and Recreation Department started in spring 2010, adding a third park to the reconstructed Fulton Street Corridor.

Like DeLury Square (at Gold Street) and Titanic Park (at South Street), Pearl Street Playground now occupies a larger site than it did originally. All three parks are part of the city Department of Transportations Pedestrian Plaza Program, which expanded total square footage of each park by shifting out curb lines. The new Pearl Street Playground de-mapped the former pedestrian-only Little Pearl Street, creating a plaza up to Beekman Street that ties into Fulton Streets new streetscape.

The design for the new park features an oval playground area, with new play equipment, softer pavement, benches, and a water feature during summer. The surrounding landscape design uses boulders and rock slabs, as well as planting beds to evoke the original sandy shoreline that existed along Pearl Street more than two centuries ago.

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