The Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday unanimously approved plans for a new "ghost ship" park at Peck Slip near the South Street Seaport and a re-installation of a large art work on the north wall of 599 Broadway in SoHo.

Initially, some preservationists argued that the Peck Slip park should not have greenery because of its historical character associated with shipping and the nearby fish market.

Plans for the park by Quennell Rothschild and the Department of Parks therefore settled on an abstract version of the "ribs" of a ship either in construction or ruins, but those plans were disapproved by Community Board 1 last month for a lack of greenery and as being "cold and unwelcoming."

Paul Goldstein, a former district manager of Community Board 1, and his current boss, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, then arranged meetings between the community, the designers and the Parks Department to develop a revised plan.

In testimony before the landmarks commission yesterday, Silver said that "the road to arrive at the current design has been almost as treacherous as the cobblestone roadway on Peck Slip itself," adding that "the urgent need for this new open space is very clear."

"Lower Manhattan," Mr. Silver maintained, "has seen a huge increase in its residential population over the past decade and this population growth is expected to continue into the foreseeable future. This growth has been most dramatic in the area south of the Brooklyn Bride and east of Broadway with many thousands of new residential units being created in the Financial District and the South Street Seaport area. It is notable that this entire area is currently serviced by only a single very small vest pocket children's playground on Fulton Street. We must address this need for additional parks and open space and Peck Slip offers the community a rare opportunity to create new parkland in this densely built part of Lower Manhattan."

The plan was revised to add some "green" at the park's western end. Several buildings have recently been restored fronting on the park, which has been used as a parking lot for many years.

The commission's unanimous approval of plans to restore "The Wall" at 599 Broadway resulted in part from the efforts of its counsel, Mark Silberman, who helped negotiate a settlement between the owners of the building and Forrest "Frosty" Myers, the artist who created "The Wall," which was commissioned by Charles Tannenbaum in 1973 to disguise some exposed joists on the building's north wall, which is highly visible because the building to the north was demolished for the widening of Houston Street.

In 2002, the 42 protruding beams that were spaced in a grid on the lower part of the building's north wall were removed because the building's owners need to make some repairs and then wanted to use the space for advertising signage. Mr. Myers lost a Federal law suit about the art work in 2005.

A settlement took about 16 months and agreement in principle was reached early last year but only recently finally worked out.

The new plan calls for the original art work to be replicated, but higher up on the facade. The bottom edge of the art work will be 32 feet above the street to permit four 18-by-4-foot advertising panels to be displayed.

In addition, the agreement, approved by the commission yesterday, calls for the art work to be illuminated at night. Leni Schwendinger, a lighting designer who recently worked on the Parachute Jump in Coney Island, is working on the design, and stands next to a preliminary sketch in the photograph at the right.