New York City Police Memorial

Eduardo Castro was project engineer for the design of the NYC Police Memorial. The Memorial uses water as a metaphor. A fountain serves as the genesis of the memorial and represents the rookie police officer’s first day while a linear flume acts as the timeline of the officer’s career. Water flows gently over the split face bottom of the flume leading to a slot in the granite wall. Finally, the water comes to rest in a shallow pool marking the police officer’s death. The death of the police officer is commemorated in an outdoor room defined by two parallel granite walls and depressed thirty inches below the esplanade. A wall along the western edge holds the names of the officers and dates on which they were killed. Constructed of green granite, the stone is rendered with a split face finish facing outward and polished surface facing inward reinforcing the sacred nature of the space.