in 1982 conceptual artist Agnes Denes grew a wheat field in Lower Manhattan to highlight the contrast between the essential, life-giving nature of food and the speculative, abstract value of real estate and finance src: https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/agnes-denes-wheatfield.html
Some imaginative art was done on that landfill, which had been formed from the recent WTC excavation. creativetime.org was the innovator. I also saw Jane Fonda do a rally for some cause I've forgotten. Now it's all built up except for parks named for one ex-governor and one ex-mayor.