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Imagination Playground Parks is a site-specific park concept that can be designed and conditioned
for any place or community, and includes a full set of Imagination Playground Loose Parts and a sculpted landscape, as well as sand and water installations

The first Imagination Playground Park opened to the public on July 27, 2010, at Burling Slip in the South Street Seaport area of New York City, a collaboration between the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Rockwell Group. Features of this site-specific park include: a ramp, sandpit, slide, cascading water channel, rope climbing structure, masts and pulleys, and a listening forest. Inspired by the commercial activity that took place at historic Burling Slip, loose parts such as burlap bags, buckets, shovels, brooms, carts and fabric are to be incorporated within the play activities. And to reflect the proximity to the East River, buckets, sandbags and wooden dams have been integrated into the water play. Seating and storytelling can happen in the tiered steps of the amphitheater.

If you have a group of over 25 kids, you will need a permit from the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation to visit the playground. Please click on this link and follow the instructions to plan your visit.

Subway

Fulton St/Broadway-Nassau Station

When you exit the subway walk east on Fulton Street and then turn right for one block on South Street. Imagination Playground at Burling Slip will be on your right.

donations

For Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, Rockwell Group is raising an endowment fund to ensure that that playground is properly maintained and staffed for New Yorkers, visitors, and their families, to enjoy for decades to come.

For more information please contact Marc Hacker at 212.463.0334 or MHacker@rockwellgroup.com

Contributions to Imagination Playground at Burling Slip are tax deductible, thanks to an arrangement with the City Parks Foundation, which is serving as fiscal sponsor for the project. The City Parks Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization and the only city-wide organization devoted to improving New York City's parks and playgrounds. The City Parks Foundation's Board of Directors will be responsible for investing funds raised so they will last for the long-term.

To make a donation to Imagination Playground at Burling Slip online, go to www.cityparksfoundation.org and click on "Donate Now." Make sure to write "Imagination Playground" under comments or where it says "In honor of."

To contribute to Imagination Playground at Burling Slip by mail,
make checks payable to City Parks Foundation and send to: