Friday, September 2, 2011

Thursday, September 1, 2011

where in NYC?

The Battery Park City is 92-acre planned community at the southwestern tip of lower Manhattan, bounded on the east by West Street and surrounded by Hudson River.

 


It was developed as bradn new city within NYC as a way to revitalize the area. The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using, mainly, soil and rocks excaveted during the construction of the World Trade Center.
Its project reserved a great portion of the area for public spaces, those are permanently protected as "mapped parkland" by the City of New York. Besides the parks, it gives place to many residential and commercial buildings, including the World Financial Center.