Located at the heart of Lower Manhattan on Liberty Street, flanked by Broadway and Church Street, Zuccotti Park opened to the public on June 1, 2006 after ten months of construction. Originally called Liberty Plaza Park and destroyed during 9/11, it was rebuilt and re-imagined as an urban oasis with a shady tree grove of 54 honey-locust trees, planters of flowers and shrubs, permanent chess tables and seats, and 500 in-ground white lights, all across a polished surface of “Atlantic pink” granite.

Zuccotti Park is also home to Mark di Suvero’s 70-foot-tall red steel sculpture Joie de Vivre, which anchors the park’s southeast corner. Its northwest corner is decorated by J. Seward Johnson’s Double Check, a dark bronze sculpture of a man with a briefcase, which sat in the original park for nearly 20 years and was relocated after 9/11.