Battery Park City
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
- ↑ Statistics of the Manhattan Community Board 1 (PDF; 3.2 MB)
Web links
Commons : Battery Park City - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- The site Battery Park City Authority (English)
Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ N , 74 ° 1 ′ W