Teardrop Park
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Battery Park City (between River Terrace towers), Manhattan, New York
When: typically open in warm months (check before visiting)
Hours: typically daylight hours
Cost: free
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A designed-to-feel-wild pocket park where kids slide down a giant metal slide into sand, clamber over huge boulders and splash in water that trickles down tiered rocks. Canopied paths and lawns make it feel like an ancient piece of landscape dropped between Battery Park City high-rises.