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3 unusual facts about Battery Park


Levasseur PL.8

Crowds of people gathered in New York to witness the historic arrival, with tens of thousands of people crowding Battery Park in Manhattan to have a good view of the Statue of Liberty, where the aircraft was scheduled to touch down.

Sasson Soffer

Four solo exhibitions of his sculpture works were held in New York’s Battery Park, in addition to solo exhibitions at other institutions including Lincoln Center, Columbia University, and New York University.

Schuylkill, Philadelphia

The hospital has hired a consultant to plan the traffic patterns around the area as they did for Delaware Waterfront and New York's Battery Park.


Cy A. Adler

In early December, 1982, Adler placed an ad in the Voice announcing a public walk along the Hudson River from Battery Park to Riverside Park, which at the time consisted largely of docking facilities abandoned due to Containerization.

Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society

The organization ran shelters for recent Jewish immigrants at Castle Garden, New York's immigration center at the Battery prior to the 1892 opening of the facility at Ellis Island; Wards Island near the meeting point of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens; and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.

Interstate 78 in New York

I-478 is currently the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel and approaches, connecting I-278 in Brooklyn with the Battery in Manhattan; it was once planned to continue north along the unbuilt Westway to I-78 at the Holland Tunnel.

John Wolfe Ambrose

Also, a memorial bust monument of Ambrose was erected in his honor and originally unveiled at Battery Park in 1936 by his family and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.


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