Projecting from the glittering vault of the Winter Garden and the base of the World Financial Center to the marina of the North Cove and the Hudson waterfront, World Financial Plaza is the center of Battery Park City. It is also the result of a singular collaboration between artists Siah Armajani and Scott Burton, architect Cesar Pelli, and landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg. From the earliest stages, these individuals joined forces to create a welcoming, celebratory public landscape that would look to the past and future alike. The design spans from th egently curving contour of the cove to Burton's stone seating and the fountains girding the plaza. Wooden benches tucked along tree-lined pathways provide a more secluded setting. Inset into the metal railings overlooking the cove are quotes from poets Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara celebrating the exhilarating spirit of New York City. At once formal and congenial, World Financial Plaza is an ebullient stage set for New York City at the dawn of the 21st century.

Martin Puryear's Pylons are placed along the waterfront of the Belvedere, near the Winter Garden. The two pylons are opposite in aesthetics. One is solid and angular; the other is perforated steel mesh that spirals upward. The Pylons are designed to be viewed from either land or water; the two forms stand like columns visually connecting the two.

This granite retaining wall is an honor roll names of policemen who died while active members of the New York city Police Department. The monument includes a fountain and a reflecting pool.

The sculpture of Ulysses dons a helmet-mask, which simultaneously shows and hides weakness and strength in the hero.

The AIA Guide, describes Cesar Pelli's Wintergarden at the World Financial Center as "a welcome, sunny, barrel-vaulted, palm-filled interior public space measuring 130 x 230 feet, roughly the size of Grand Central's concourse." It has been the public gathering place in Lower Manhattan for concerts, squash tournaments, solar house mock-ups and the exhibitions documenting the rebuilding process for the adjacent World Trade Center site. The Wintergarden itself was severely damaged on 9/11/01 and was rebuilt quickly thereafter. Adjacent to this grand greenhouse are the commercial structures of the World Financial Center, a collaboration between Cesar Pelli and HLW architects; the tallest of these, 2 World Financial Center, the Merrill Lynch World Headquarters, is dome-topped and 51 stories tall. In total there are 8 million square feet of space. It is also the largest year-round free arts presenter in the East Coast.

This 12 foot high, 8 foot wide, 2.75-ton section of the Berlin Wall was given to the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority, by the German Consulate, in recognition of the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Authority's commitment to education through the display of public art. Erected by the East German regime, the Berlin Wall for almost thirty years helped to hold millions of people captive under communism. On November 9, 1989 the Wall was finally brought down by the yearning of the people of East Germany to live free. This segment once stood in downtown Berlin in the area between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz. It was part of the inner wall designed to prevent East Germans from escaping. Today, it stands as a powerful symbol of the strength of democracy - teaching and inspiring all who visit Kowsky Plaza of the importance of freedom.