Barry Diller Donated $260 Million to Build NYC's Little Island Park, Planted With 66,000 Bulbs

*Barry Diller says: "It's a little piece of Oz." see ABC News video.

New York Post May 20, 2021

Little Island, NYC's Floating Park, is a Marvel.

It’s a floating island, a pier, and a park — but it’s a miracle more than anything else.

Little Island, the brand-new public playground off West 14th Street in the Hudson River, rises out of the water 200 feet from noisy Eleventh Avenue, but a world removed. It’s the biggest, and most creative, park opening since the High Line. The Big Apple has never seen anything like it.

When it opens Friday morning at 6 a.m., New Yorkers will finally get to explore the undulating, “floating” green space dreamed up, and mostly paid for, by the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, headed by IAC chairman and former Hollywood mogul Barry Diller.

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ABC News video: Barry Diller says "It's a little piece of Oz".

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/nycs-new-floating-park-little-island-is-a-marvel/

*Note== In the visitors' videos posted on ytube, they show 2 black and white optical illusions, each is a large round screen with black and white stripes that swirl like a hynotic pattern.

** Barry Diller is the Chairman of IAC/InterActive Corp and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company. His public Net Worth is $3.7 Billion Dollars.

Diller was born into a Jewish household in San Francisco, California, and is the son of Reva (née Addison) and Michael Diller.

Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Diller#Early_life