To get a small glimpse of Ireland, New Yorkers need only travel as far as Battery Park City, where the newly renovated Irish Hunger Memorial by CTA Architects and landscape architecture firm SiteWorks has reopened for good.
The memorial, which was first built in 2002, underwent a $5.3 million renovation between 2016 and last summer, only to briefly close again for plantings. The structure uses 52 types of plants and stone elements transported from Ireland to tell the story of the 19th century’s Great Irish Famine, when millions migrated from their homeland and about a million more died of starvation.
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