1 Best Performing Art in Financial District, New York City

Winter Garden at Brookfield Place

Financial District

Brookfield Place, an upscale shopping-and-dining complex across the street from the World Trade Center, provides a showcase for an entirely free program of performing and visual arts, including occasional live music, as well as site-specific installations (with an emphasis on commissioned works), poetry readings, film screenings, and more. Events are presented within Brookfield Place's spectacular, 10-story, glass-covered Winter Garden atrium or on its outdoor plaza overlooking the Hudson (weather permitting). In winter, there's an outdoor ice-skating rink, too.