SeaGlass Carousel
The SeaGlass Carousel is a carousel in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City which opened in August 2015.
The project to build a carousel was created by Warrie Price, founding president of the Battery Park Conservancy.[1][2] Part of a plan to redevelop the park,[3] it cost $16 million to build; $8 million of this money was paid for by the city and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.[4] A ride costs $5 and lasts for three-and-a-half minutes.[1] Design and construction took nearly a decade.[5][6]
The Carousel is the work of New York architectural firm WXY and artist George Tsypin.[7][1] Music for the ride was created by Teddy Zambetti, a composer and music executive for SiriusXM, who adapted familiar classical themes by Debussy, Mozart, Prokofiev, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns into contemporary styles.[8] The Carousel features seating on identifiable species, such as a Siamese fighting fish.[2][4] The Carousel is designed to resemble an under-the-sea garden through which visitors ride on fish that appear to be made of sea glass and shimmer as though they were bioluminescent.[1] The effect refers not only to the Carousel's waterfront site, but to the adjacent Castle Clinton, which housed the New York Aquarium in the early 20th century.[1][2] The design is also unusual for placing its operating machinery under the floor, so that there is no post in the center of the ride.[9] A designer from WXY Architecture stated of the carousel, "As far as we know, there’s nothing in the world like this."[7]
The Carousel opened to the public on August 20, 2015. City officials described the opening as a symbol of recovery in the area, which suffered damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012.[9]
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