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New York City views are soaring to new heights–literally. A new publicly-accessible rooftop just opened at Battery Park City’s 3.5-acre Wagner Park , offering sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty , Ellis Island, and the Hudson River and giving New Yorkers a stunning new place to relax on the NYC waterfront.

Wagner Park, established in 1996 and named after Robert F. Wagner, Jr., reopened this past July after two-and-a-half years of major reconstruction to address urgent climate resilience needs.

Following Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Battery City Park faced millions of dollars in destruction, thus officials set out to mitigate future damages from severe storms and weather events as part of NYC’s Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Project (LMCR).

Upon reopening, the pa

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