New York City’s Hidden Waterfalls

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This post is inspired by the recent hoopla over the $15.5M installation of four “New York City Waterfalls” created by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson placed along the East River.

As many of you know, New York City is already home to numerous man-made waterfalls ranging from naturally set waterfalls in Central Park to waterfalls inside Midtown’s most prominent office towers and hotels to waterfalls inside NYC Restaurants such as Rosa Mexicano and Highline in Manhattan and East Buffet in Elmhurst, Queens.

The most notable NYC waterfalls are:

• Central Park Waterfalls (100th to 105th street) - “Waterfall in the Loch”

• Japanese Hill & Pond Garden Waterfalls in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden

• Bronx River Waterfall in the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx

• Paley Park’s 20 foot waterfall on 53rd Street and 5th Avenue

• Hearst Tower “Ice Falls” on 57th Street and 8th Ave - a cascading waterfall at the entrance of the building spanning 27 feet tall and 75 feet wide over glass.  Water is recycled from rain-water collected on the roof of the building that is piped to a 14,000 gallon tank in the basement

• Olympic Tower Three-tiered waterfall on 5th Ave btw 51st and 5nd streets

• Trump Tower Waterfall on 5th Ave and 57th street - a 7-story, 20 foot wide waterfall down a rose granite surface

• W Time Square Hotel Waterfall on Broadway and 47th Street - Guests wait for the elevator under a glass bottom of a pool that diverts water down a transparant wall

• Aon Center/Park Plaza Waterfall on 52nd Street and Madison Ave - a granite backed cascade waterfall that is 40 foot wide

For more on NYC Waterfalls that we may have missed…

Please feel free to comment and add your own NYC waterfall to this list!

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