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	New York Architecture Images- Battery Park City
		Battery Park City is bounded on the east by West Street, which insulates the area from the Financial District of downtown Manhattan.
		Battery Park City is built on what was once 92 acres of landfill and is now some of the most scenic and engaging open space in New York City, establishing an urban fabric of mixed uses that brought new life to lower Manhattan, sustaining it through difficult and turbulent times.
		Battery Park City is a success because the Battery Park City Authority is a visionary owner dedicated to sustaining the energy of the master plan and being a patron of a well-designed public space.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /LM/LM072.htm (2932 words)

	Battery Park City New York Neighborhood - Manhattan NYC restaurants, attractions, maps, castle clinton national ...
		Located at the tip of Manhattan along the Hudson River, the Battery is one of New York City's oldest public open spaces.
		It is now a museum dedicated to the history of immigration and the important role this island claimed during the mass migration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Located in the Battery Park area is the Museum of Jewish Heritage which is a monument to victims of the Holocaust.
	www.mustseenewyork.com /battery-park.html (272 words)

	Battery Park (New York) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battery Park (to New Yorkers, The Battery) is a 21-acre (8.5 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.
		The park itself was created by landfill during the 19th century, creating a treed open space at the foot of the heavily built-up mainland of Manhattan Island.
		Battery Park is featured in the famous song by Leonard Bernstein, "New York, New York, it's a Hell of a Town", which includes the line "and the Battery's down" for the southerly location of the Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battery_Park_(New_York) (929 words)

	UN–HABITAT CELEBRATES WORLD HABITAT DAY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NEW YORK’S BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY, NGO COMMITTEE ...
		NEW YORK, 2 October (UN-HABITAT) -- The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) observed the annual World Habitat Day this morning in New York City with representatives from state, local government and civil society to respond to the 2006 Day’s theme -- “Cities, Magnets of Hope”.
		In her introductory remarks, Axumite Gebre-Egziabher, Director of the New York Office of UN- HABITAT, welcomed the participants and said that, as the world becomes more urbanized, it is important to look into the impact of migration on the social, economic and physical development of cities.
		The Battery Park City Authority is a public benefit corporation created by the New York State Legislature in 1968 to develop a 92-acre site at the south-western tip of Lower Manhattan.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2006/hab206.doc.htm (787 words)

	Rebuilding: Projects Completed
		The Battery Conservancy began operating in 1995, and its first project was to raise the funds to build awareness of the need to redesign and rebuild the Seawall.
		The panels illustrate the explorations and encounters of New York's diverse populations, showing maritime vessels, and moments in the exciting history of The Battery.
		The Battery Labyrinth was conceived and funded by The Battery Conservancy in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.
	www.thebattery.org /rebuilding/completed.html (1074 words)

	Battery Park City Apartments: Find Battery Park City Rentals and Luxury Apartments
		Battery Park has transformed into one of the city's true 24 hour communities.
		The residential area of Battery Park City includes numerous hi-rise luxury apartments and rental towers with views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island or the Hudson River.
		CK Real Estate Group, LLC is a licensed New York State Real Estate Brokerage located at 200 East 72nd Street and in no way represents itself as the official building website or the exclusive on site agent for the 90 Washington building.
	www.batteryparkrentals.com (283 words)

	Colonial Era Wall Found in Battery Park Subway Dig - Wired New York Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Despite a host of past construction projects under Battery Park, including a highway underpass, the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel, subway tunnels, air shafts and landfills, “We were surprised by the extent of the finds,” Benepe said.
		Recalling the popular song, “New York, New York” (“The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down”), Benepe, standing several feet from a hole in which a small portion of the wall was visible, turned toward the excavation and noted, “The battery, if this is a battery, is about ten feet down.
		It is in the northeast corner of Battery Park, near the island's original shoreline, and archaeologists working on the project said British soldiers may have built it in the mid-1700's to protect one of the forts that dominated the settlement at the southern tip of the island.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8037 (4592 words)

	Artillery battery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Batteries are grouped in larger units called battalions, which are further grouped into regiments.
		Batteries were divided into sections of two guns apiece, normally under the command of a lieutenant.
		Headquarters batteries, which themselves have no artillery pieces, but are rather the command and control organization for a group of firing batteries (for example, a regimental or battalion headquarters battery).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artillery_battery (895 words)

	BATTERY PARK - Historical Sign
		Between 1808 and 1811, a new circular fort known as the West Battery was erected 200 feet offshore.
		In 1890 Castle Clinton was acquired by the New York City Department of Public Parks, which operated the New York Aquarium there from 1896 to 1941.
		Portions of Battery Park were closed from 1940 to 1952, while the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Battery Park Underpass were built beneath it.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7712 (596 words)

	New York City Divorce Lawyer Announces Opening of Her New York City Divorce Lawyer Office - nycdivorcelawyer.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Now, this Saugerties NY divorce atttorney is pleased to announce that she has opened a new office in New York City, on the waterfront, in Battery Park City.
		As a New York City divorce lawyer appearing in New York Supreme Court on New York City divorce cases and on other divorce cases, she plans on holding free New York City divorce seminars to be conducted by New York City divorce attorneys and other formidable professionals.
		Professionals are expected to pitch in and assist the New York State Divorce lawyers in the presentation of such materials, such as mediators, arbitrators, and counselors and psychologists.
	www.prweb.com /releases/200556/4/prwebxml227303.php (846 words)

	Ritz Carlton NY Battery Park New York New York NYC @ new-york-hotels-net.com
		Today New York continues to offer a diversity of cultures with the finest selection of entertainment, the most exciting nightlife, over 150 world-class museums and more than 18,000 restaurants with all kinds of cuisines in the world.
		New York City has many famous landmarks and incredible architecture such as the the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State and Chrysler buildings and the Brooklyn Bridge.
		In addition the landmarks and performances in New York City there are some other attractions that both entertain and educate children, such as subway trains, zoos, beaches, botanical gardens and even the free Staten Island ferry.
	www.new-york-hotels-net.com /ritz_carlton_ny_battery_park_new_york.html (470 words)

	Battery Park - Landmarks - New York Magazine
		To honor its past, the park has plans for a bizarre, aquatic-themed carousel as part of a major revitalization effort that began in the late nineties.
		Park: The small, clandestine park just north of Battery Park, is a cleaner, grassier, less-touristy place to view the harbor and the Statue of Liberty.
		Battery Park Harbor Cruise: A narrated passage that explores lower Manhattan from the Hudson and East Rivers.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /listings/attraction/battery_park/index.html (490 words)

	Battery Park \| New York City Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		Jutting out as if it were Manhattan's green toe, Battery Park (so named because a battery of 28 cannon was placed along its shore in colonial days to fend off the British) is built on landfill and has gradually grown over the centuries to its present 22 acres.
		The park's main structure is Castle Clinton National Monument, the takeoff point for ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
		At the park's northernmost edge, Marisol's bronze tribute to the American Merchant Marine in WWII is a dramatic depiction of three sailors trying to rescue a man in the water.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=new_york_city@111&cur_section=sig&property_id=298349 (380 words)

	Battery's down, Midtown remains flat - Battery Park, New York City, Midtown Manhattan tax assessments Real Estate ...
		The New York City tentative assessment roll that was to be released yesterday will contain little that is not outwardly apparent to industry watchers.
		Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, says he has no reason to doubt that there will continue to be a tax rate freeze.
		Even with new leases often lower than the previous escalated rentals, the market cannot capture the new rental income until after the year or more of free rent is up - some a year or two from now, given the lag in build-outs, move in's and income and expense reporting.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_n25_v41/ai_16448785 (943 words)

	HOME to Battery Park Vision Associates
		BATTERY PARK VISION ASSOCIATES, P.C. We are a community oriented office and are proud to have sponsored many activities in and around Battery Park City for over 18 years.
		We are certified by the New York State Education and Licensing Department to use medicines to treat your eyes when necessary and to perform diagnostic and monitoring procedures.
		Naparstek, a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Optometry and the New York Academy of Optometry, has been active in contact lens related research and has presented papers at their meetings.
	www.batteryparkvision.com (508 words)

	New York City deluxe - AM New York
		Whether you're looking to park yourself downtown, midtown or uptown, here are some of our favorites, from the frankly modernist to the comfortably traditional.
		This addition to the downtown skyline rises 38 stories over New York Harbor, and many of the guest rooms have splendid views of the Hudson River and the Statue of Liberty (they come equipped with a telescope, to make the view that much better).
		Battery Park is steps away from the hotel, with its landscaped gardens and an esplanade along the Hudson.
	www.amny.com /travel/am-nychotels,0,4477042.story (1031 words)

	A Revolutionary War Road Trip along US Route 9W: New York City, NY
		It was first called “West Battery,” and was one of the important defenses of New York Harbor during the War of 1812 period.
		In the short walking distance from Battery Park to Fraunces Tavern, one historically traverses the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1775 to the end of the war in 1783.
		It was obvious that if the British could seize New York and the mouth of the Hudson they would be in position to push north along the waterway with ships of the Royal Navy.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute9w/nyc/federal.htm (2786 words)

	Walking New York City: Battery Park, NY Harbour, Ellis Island
		Just before you enter the park, note the New York branch of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian at One Bowling Green, where the Canyon of the Heroes ends.
		Instead of or in addition to the Staten Island Ferry, from Battery Park you may take one of the smaller boats that travel to Ellis Island, adjacent to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
		These are not the bargain of the Staten Island Ferry, but the Ellis Island trip is worthwhile for those who want to walk in the footsteps of the millions of people—more than 12 million via this processing centre alone—who came to the U.S., often almost penniless, to give their children and themselves a better life.
	www.drvoyageur.com /guides/walknyc-battpark.html (397 words)

	Aba's Place: Holidays - New York
		After hanging round the park for a short while we headed off the short distance to the Battery Park City Waterfront Promenade looking back on great views of New York's financial district.
		The next day was kind of grey but unlike the rest of the week the forecast was for dry weather so we decided to take advantage of this, get on the Staten Island Ferry and, for a change, actually get off the other end and take a look around Staten Island.
		New York will probably remain one of my firm favourite city break destinations.
	www.abasplace.co.uk /holidays/new_york04/newyork04.htm (753 words)

	Battery Park- New York City, NY - VirtualTourist.com
		Come to Battery Park and spend a couple of hours of doing nothing, and amaze yourself with a peaceful rest from the constant moving of a city that never learns to slow down.
		Battery park is the port area where you can catch the liberty island ferry.
		Battery Park is a pretty park located by the harbour at the very bottom of Manhattan.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/New_York_State/New_York_City-841252/Things_To_Do-New_York_City-Battery_Park-BR-1.html (1408 words)

	Amazon.com: Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront (Cities and Regions): Books: D. Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gordon argues that Battery Park City is a remarkably successful urban development project, and that its implemented plan, prepared largely by Cooper Eckstut Associates, was an admiral combination of postmodern and new urbanist development.
		Once it became obvious that the piers on the lower Hudson River were ripe for redevelopment, there was a scramble to initiate the project.
		Battery Park City, New York, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Kahan, City Planning Commission, Hudson River, Master Lease, East River, World Financial Center, Board of Estimate, David Rockefeller, Gateway Plaza, Rector Place, John Lindsay, Stanton Eckstut, Ada Louise Huxtable, Charles Urstadt, Cooper Eckstut, Governor Rockefeller, Philip Johnson, Manhattan Landing, Battery Place, Cesar Pelli, City Hall, Rockefeller Center
	www.amazon.com /Battery-Park-City-Planning-Waterfront/dp/9056995588 (807 words)

	Battery Park City New York City.com : Visitor Guide : Editorial Review
		Battery Park City is a 90-acre "suburban/urban" land site on the lower west side of Manhattan, a short five-minute walk from the Financial District and close to Wall Street.
		While home to the World Financial Center, most of the neighborhood is residential, with approximately one third of the area devoted to recently-developed parks and a waterfront esplanade.
		The area is in fact still so new that it feels very unlike the rest of New York City.
	www.nyc.com /visitor_guide/Battery_Park_City.75876/editorial.aspx (505 words)

	Castle Clinton National Monument - Castle Clinton National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		Located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, Castle Clinton represents not only the growth of New York City, the the growth of a Nation.
		The National Park Rangers and maintenance staff at Castle Clinton are there to serve you.
		Due to its location at the foot of New York Harbor, Castle Clinton can be a lovely place to have an outdoor lunch or a place to test extreme weather gear.
	www.nps.gov /cacl (225 words)

	Battery Park - New York, NY, 10004 - Citysearch
		Urban bliss on the Hudson in this spectacular city park.
		Battery Park takes its name from a line of British cannons that once protected the harbor in the late 1600s.
		When to Go During summer months, free concerts are often held at Castle Clinton, a former fort that was constructed in the early 19th Century and nearly demolished by Robert Moses to make room for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
	www.citysearch.com /profile/11349767 (302 words)

	RWAAG / Ritz Carlton Battery Park, New York City
		As designed by Frank Nicholson, Ritz Carlton Battery Park City Interior Architect, these vitrine panels embody a masterful expression of formal geometry.
		Although designed specificially for the Ritz Carlton Battery Park City, two identical panels are directly available from RWAAG.
		As photographed in the studio, two panels await shipment to Battery Park City.
	www.ronwood.com /ritz_bp/vitrines.html (134 words)

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