Photos: Whimsical new NYC waterfront park floats over Hudson River

From Manhattan’s West Facet Freeway, the “Little Island” appears like a cluster of large white flower buds sprouting from the Hudson River. However the 2.4-acre park—conceived and largely paid for by billionaire Barry Diller via his Diller - von Furstenberg Household Basis—is definitely an undulating platform of grass, timber, and winding pathways mounted on concrete piles the place Pier 54 was.