Battery Park City is a 92 acre site at the southwestern tip of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It was created through land reclamation from the Hudson River with 1.2 million cubic yards of earth and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and other construction projects. The World Financial Center was built on it, along with numerous housing, commercial and retail buildings. Battery Park City took its name from the adjacent Battery Park.
Battery Park City is owned and managed by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), a public-benefit corporation created by New York State. As a public-benefit corporation, BPCA channels excess revenue from the Battery Park City development to other housing efforts such as low-income projects in the Bronx and Harlem. The last time any substantial housing was funded was in 1987.
Battery Park City is bounded on the east by West Street while the tidal estuary of the Hudson River borders it to the north, west and south. It consists of five major sections. From north to south, they are "North Residential Neighbourhood", consisting of high-rise residential buildings, a large hotel, the Stuyvesant High School, and a mall. Next comes the World Financial Center. South of the World Financial Center lies the rest of the residential areas of Battery Park City, namely "Gateway Plaza", a high-rise building, "Rector Place Residential Neighbourhood", and "Battery Place Residential Neighbourhood", mostly low-rise buildings.
View of Rockefeller Park, in Battery Park City
by Aude, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:RockfellerPark2993.JPG, and used under GNU Free Documentation License
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