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The Battery

The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre public park located at the southern tip of in facing .
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: public park in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Battery”
  • Historically known as: “Battery Park”
  • Address: New York, NY 10004

Places of Interest

Highlights include Freedom Tower and SeaGlass Carousel.

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One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and as the , is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in , New York City.

Carousel
Photo: Allison Meier, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre public park located at the southern tip of in facing .

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The is a cable-stayed suspension bridge in , spanning the between the boroughs of and . Opened on May 24, 1883, the was the first fixed crossing of the East River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Financial District and Battery Park City.

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The comprises the southern tip of , with the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and Barclay Street on the north.

Neighborhood
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is a mainly residential 92-acre planned community and neighborhood on the west side of the southern tip of the island of in .

Quarter
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Lower Manhattan, also known as or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of the New York City borough of . The area is the historical birthplace of New York City and in the 17th and 18th centuries composed the entirety of the city.

The Battery

Latitude
40.70281° or 40° 42′ 10″ north
Longitude
-74.01578° or 74° 0′ 57″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Operator
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Named after
artillery battery
Open location code
87G7PX3M+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 5029111
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
5108134
Wiki­data ID
Q13689
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Panjabi—“The Battery” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Battery Park”
  • Catalan: “Battery Park”
  • Cebuano: “Battery Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, New York)”
  • Cebuano: “Battery Park”
  • Chinese: “巴特里公园”
  • Chinese: “砲台公园”
  • Chinese: “砲台公園”
  • Danish: “Battery Park”
  • Dutch: “Battery Park”
  • Dutch: “The Battery”
  • Estonian: “Battery Park”
  • Finnish: “Battery Park”
  • French: “Battery Park”
  • French: “The Battery”
  • German: “Battery Park”
  • German: “The Battery”
  • Hebrew: “פארק באטרי”
  • Hungarian: “The Battery (Manhattan)”
  • Hungarian: “The Battery”
  • Indonesian: “Battery Park”
  • Italian: “Battery Park”
  • Japanese: “バッテリー・パーク”
  • Korean: “배터리 파크”
  • Lithuanian: “Baterijos parkas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Battery Park”
  • Norwegian: “Battery Park”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Battery Park”
  • Persian: “پارک بتری”
  • Polish: “The Battery (park)”
  • Polish: “The Battery”
  • Portuguese: “Battery Park”
  • Portuguese: “The Battery”
  • Russian: “Беттери-парк”
  • Russian: “Бэттери-парк”
  • Serbian: “Bateri park”
  • Serbian: “Батери парк”
  • Slovak: “Battery Park”
  • Slovenian: “Battery Park”
  • Slovenian: “The Battery”
  • Spanish: “Battery Park”
  • Spanish: “Battery”
  • Spanish: “The Battery”
  • Swedish: “Battery Park”
  • Turkish: “The Battery”
  • Ukrainian: “Батарея”
  • Ukrainian: “Беттері-парк”
  • Vietnamese: “Battery”
  • Vietnamese: “Công viên Battery”
  • Vietnamese: “The Battery”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیٹری پارک”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include The Battery Woodland and East Coast Memorial.

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