The Irish Hunger Memorial is a 0.5 acres park at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City &mdash; dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Hunger, referred to as An Gorta Mór in Irish , in which over one million starved to death between 1845 and 1852 as a result of British policies that prioritized the exportation of profitable foods as most of the potato crop was wiped out by a fungus like organism called Phytophthora infestans (or P. infestans).