Battery Park

The Battery Park is a 10 acre park on the southern tip of Manhattan. It is one of the oldest parks in New York City.

Located at Battery Park harbor serves as a starting point for the ferries to Ellis Iceland, the Statue of Liberty, Staten Iceland, and in the summer to Governors Iceland.

In the park located next to the Castle Clinton many other monuments such as the Netherlands Memorial, the East Coast War Memorial, the monuments of John Ericsson, Giovanni da Verrazano and the poet Emma Lazarus and the monument of the first Jewish immigrants and the 9/11- Memorial The Sphere by Fritz Koenig ( since 2002).

The park has to defend its name from the Dutch artillery batteries that were once stationed here the former harbor of New Amsterdam. Due to siltation and embankment today's shoreline has advanced somewhat. The Landaufschüttung created by the excavation for the construction of 2001 destroyed the World Trade Center, which was built in 1966-1973. Thus, the park was enlarged by about 2 hectares. The Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf put here at the Garden of remembrance, to commemorate the victims of the attack on the World Trade Centre. The Battery Conservancy provides $ 4,000,000 for the maintenance of the garden available each year.

The park has around six million visitors every year from all over the world.

Reception

Scenes from the following movies were filmed in Battery Park:

• Susan Desperately Seeking ... (1985 )
• Whatever Works - Love Man for Himself (2009)
• Men in Black 3 (2012 )