Asser Levy Playground can be found at East 23 Street To East 25 Street and along FDR Drive in Manhattan, New York City.
The Asser Levy Playground is part of the Asser Levy Recreation Center.
What You can Find at the Asser Levy Playground
One of the first playgrounds in Manhattan designed for children with disabilities, the Asser Levy Playground, opened in 1993.
The Heckscher Foundation for Children, the City Parks Foundation, and the City provided the funding.
The playground has drinking fountains that are accessible to people with physical disabilities, specially made free-form game tables, benches made of wood and concrete, and tactile paving for people who are visually impaired.
All kids can use the equipment, which includes parallel bars, pull-up bars, balance boards, steps and ramps, and chain ladders.
Expansion of Asser Levy Playground
In 2015, the expansion of Asser Levy Playground added on a variety of outdoor recreational activities. On what was formerly a two-way street, locals and visitors will be able to play ping pong, badminton, chess, soccer, football and t-ball, exercise, jog, practise yoga or relax in the shade.
In 2022, the Asser Levy Playground made the news again.
Asser Levy Playground is the northern end of the $1.45 billion ESCR Project, which will build a 2.4-mile flood barrier made of berms, floodwalls, moveable gates, and raised parkland. This will help to safeguard 110,000 East Side residents from storm surges like what happened with Superstorm Sandy.
Asser Levy Playground now features 320 feet of new floodwall, along with a new 79-foot-long, 45-ton sliding steel floodgate.
It also has a climbing web in a dome shaped structure along with a playground tower with slides and ladders for the kids to have fun.
What is lacking at the playground is shade and it can get pretty hot in the summer months.
