Battery Park City is a residential and shopping district, in Lower Manhattan, whose whose promenade through waterfront parks offers stunning Hudson River and New York Harbor views.
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Battery Park City News
Latin Culture in Battery Park City
It’s not a Latin neighborhood, but there is some Latin culture.
Art
- The Hurricane María Memorial remembers the victims of the hurricane that put Puerto Rico back in the stone age overnight in 2017. 🇵🇷
- The Museum of Jewish Heritage is a living memorial to the Holocaust. The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene produces wonderful Yiddish theatre. mjhnyc.org
Books
The Battery Park City Library is part of the New York Public Library system. nypl.org
Dance
- The Battery Dance Festival is a free international contemporary dance festival in Battery Park City parks in August.
Food
- Le District is a wonderful cluster of French restaurants and markets. The Liberty Bistro is very good. Oh la la. ledistrict.com 🇫🇷
Government
Manhattan Community District 1.
Parks
The waterfront promenade has gorgeous Hudson River views. Kids love running around there.
The parks are great sunbathing spots.
- Rockefeller Park
- South Cove Park
- Wagner Park
Battery Park City Shopping
Brookfield Place is a popular mall. It’s design mirrors the New York Crystal Palace (1853), which copied London’s Crystal Palace (1851). bfplny.com
Neighborhood Culture
The development is new, so the buildings are a bit sterile. But Battery Park City living is defined by its waterfront promenade and parks.
You can walk, skate, or bicycle way up the Hudson River through Hudson River Park whose promenade and piers offer all kinds of outdoor entertainment.
[Editor Kíko Keith: I lived in Battery Park City after 9/11. The World Trade Center is across the street. You could look right out my window into the pit. It was fun walking from the subway past Alexander Hamilton’s grave at Trinity Church, but for a long time the air smelled of burnt wire and death. It’s beautiful now, but that’s how it was.]
Battery Park City
The neighborhood is surrounded on three sides by the Hudson River, with the West Side Highway in the east.
It was built over old Hudson River piers on landfill from the original World Trade Center excavation in the 1970s. Before building started, people used to sunbathe on the site as if it was the beach.
Wall Street is just across Broadway, so many financial services workers live in the neighborhood.