Battery park where is it

Its development as a public park owes to its enlargement through landfill. Fort George as Fort Amsterdam was then known was completely razed in , and its remnants were used to fill in the shore and expand the Battery. Between and , a new circular fort known as the West Battery was erected feet offshore. Around this time, the park was extended further by landfills to an area of about ten acres.

Another massive landfill project got underway in and was completed in Meanwhile, the old fort was renamed Castle Garden and provided the setting for countless receptions, demonstrations, and performances for more than thirty years. General Lafayette was welcomed there in and Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth in Inventor Samuel F.

From to the building was used as the federal immigration center for the east coast, processing approximately eight million immigrants. Although construction was delayed by World War II, New Yorkers were delighted with the dramatically transformed park, completely relandscaped and expanded by two acres. The Battery is named for the artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years to protect the settlement behind them. At the north end of the park is Castle Clinton, the often repurposed last remnant of the defensive works which inspired the name of the park, the former fireboat station Pier A and Hope Garden, a memorial to AIDS victims.

The park is also the site of the East Coast Memorial which commemorates U. To the northwest of the park lies Battery Park City, a planned community built on landfill in the s and 80s, which includes Robert F. Together with Hudson River Park, a system of greenspaces, bikeways and promenades now extend up the Hudson shoreline.

A bikeway might be built through the park that will connect the Hudson River and East River parts of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. For more information, please visit our Service Announcements page. Directions via Google Maps. For additional park information, please visit the Battery Conservancy website. Decades before Ellis Island was built or the Statue of Liberty gazed down at incoming boats, millions of newcomers arrived at The Battery from Europe and elsewhere. Although its role has changed, people from around the world still visit The Battery for a view of the city's past.

Ferries dock at its shore to pick up visitors to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and all summer long concerts play on its grounds.