The Battery (Manhattan)
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. The park is bounded by Battery Place on the north, with Bowling Green to the northeast, State Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. The park contains attractions such as an early 19th-century fort named Castle Clinton; multiple monuments; and the SeaGlass Carousel. The surrounding area, known as South Ferry, contains multiple ferry terminals, including the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal; a boat launch to the Statue of Liberty National Monument ; and a boat launch to Governors Island.
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Worth seeing in and around The Battery (Manhattan)
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel.
2.9 km · monument in New York · Wikipedia - 02New York University
New York University is a private research university in New York City, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a non-sectarian all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education.
3.4 km · private university in New York City · Wikipedia - 03One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the world.
1.1 km · main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City · Wikipedia - 04New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is a chartered public library system in New York City, United States. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest library in the United States, behind the Library of Congress, and sixth-largest in the world.
1.3 km · public library system in New York City · Wikipedia - 05American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11 was an American domestic passenger flight from Logan International Airport in Boston to Los Angeles International Airport in California that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijacked airliner was deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, killing all 92 people aboard the flight, and resulting in the deaths of more than 1,300 people within the skyscraper's top 18 stories, in addition to causing the deaths of numerous people below the trapped floors.
1 km · 9/11 hijacked passenger flight, hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center · Wikipedia - 067 World Trade Center
7 World Trade Center is an office building constructed as part of the new World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The tower is located on a city block bounded by Greenwich, Vesey, Washington, and Barclay Streets on the east, south, west, and north, respectively.
1.1 km · building in Lower Manhattan, New York City · Wikipedia - 07Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed by Cass Gilbert in the Neo-Gothic style, the Woolworth Building was originally an office skyscraper.
1.2 km · skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City, United States · Wikipedia - 08Manhattan Bridge
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Designed by Leon Moisseiff, the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft.
2.2 km · bridge in New York City · Wikipedia - 09United Airlines Flight 175
United Airlines Flight 175 was an American domestic passenger flight from Logan International Airport in Boston to Los Angeles International Airport in California that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijacked airliner was deliberately crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, killing all 65 people aboard the flight, and resulting in the deaths of more than 600 people in the South Tower's upper levels, in addition to an unknown number of civilians and emergency personnel on floors beneath the impact zone.
800 m · 9/11 hijacked passenger flight, hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center · Wikipedia - 10The New School
The New School is a private research university in New York City, New York, United States. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research.
3.9 km · private university in New York · Wikipedia
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Getting to The Battery (Manhattan)
- Airports
- Newark Liberty (EWR), 13 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 15 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 21 km
- Stations
- Ellis Island, 2 km
- Philadelphia → The Battery (Manhattan)128 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · $12–17
- Hartford → The Battery (Manhattan)162 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · $15–21
- Albany → The Battery (Manhattan)218 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · $20–27
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- Get inThe Staten Island Ferry connects the , located at the southern tip of Manhattan, to the St.
- Get inThe ferry is absolutely free and is popular for tourists since the route offers excellent views of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
- Get inThe ferry runs 24 hours a day, usually running at 30 minute intervals, with more running during rush hours and fewer running at very late hours.
- Get inNY Waterway operates ferry services from the World Financial Center ferry terminal and the Pier 11/Wall St.
- Get inferry terminal to several points in New Jersey along the Hudson River, including in Hoboken and Weehawken.
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