New York City's Irish Hunger Memorial
My first visit to the Irish Hunger Memorial, located in Battery Park City at Vesey Street and North End Avenue, was something of a shock. This memorial to the Irish potato famine includes a rural Irish landscape (with flora indigenous to the north Connacht wetlands), a stone cottage and fallow potato fields, all within the shadows of the towers that make up the World Financial Center. The contrast between these bastions of wealth and the poverty that led to the Irish exodus was startling at the time (although in light of the recent Great Recession, the contrast isn't so severe).
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