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Battery Park City

March 3, 2015Collections, Manhattan, Parks & Monumentsbattery, civic, commercial, landmark, lower manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, parks, residential.

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Battery Park City was built on landfill – the ground removed for the original World Trade Center excavations.

The architecture, naturally, is all new – post-1980. But the interesting part of Battery Park City is how its apartment and commercial buildings have been combined with green space: there really is a park in the middle of Battery Park City.

The Esplanade is the park’s backbone, running from Battery Place up to Chambers Street along the Hudson River. It is a link in the growing “Greenway” bike/pedestrian path along most of New York’s waterfront.