Battery Park City

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World Financial Center in Battery Park City
Location of Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan

Battery Park City is a district in southwest Manhattan in New York , which was created on the bank of the Hudson River between 1967 and 1976 using soil material from the excavation of the WTC construction .

Like the eponymous Battery Park , the district is administratively part of Manhattan Community Board 1 . The population at the census in 2000 was 7951; this was 2,377 more than in the 1990 census.

Battery Park City is bordered to the east by West Street with the districts of Financial District and Tribeca . It includes the buildings of the World Financial Center , the Museum of Jewish Heritage , the New York Mercantile Exchange and Stuyvesant High School.

See also

literature

  • David Gordon: Battery Park City. Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront . Routledge 1997, ISBN 90-5699-558-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the Manhattan Community Board 1 (PDF; 3.2 MB)

Web links

Commons : Battery Park City  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′  N , 74 ° 1 ′  W