Battery Park City is a planned community of 92 hectares (37 acres) on the western edge of the southernmost tip of Manhattan island in New York City. More than a third of the development is the park. The land where it was built was created by land reclamation in the Hudson River using more than 3 million cubic meters (2.3 ÃÆ'â € 10
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Geography
Battery Park City is bordered on the east by West Street, which separates the area from the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. To the west, north, and south, this area is surrounded by the Hudson River.
The development consists of about five main sections. Traveling north to south, the first neighborhood has a high-rise residential building, Stuyvesant Secondary School, the Regal Group Entertainment team, and Battery Park City branch of the New York Public Library. It is also the site of the luxury Conrad New York 463-suite hotel, which contains restaurants and bars such as Loopy Doopy Rooftop Bar, ATRIO Wine Bar Restaurant, El Vez Mexican themed restaurant, and three restaurants Danny Meyer (North End) Grill, Blue Smoke, Shake Shack); this hotel features a ballroom and a conference center. Other restaurants located at the hotel, as well as the DSW store and the New York Sports Club branch, were closed in 2009 after a property takeover by Goldman Sachs. Formerly undeveloped sites in the area have been developed into high-rise buildings; for example, Goldman Sachs built a new headquarters on 200 West Street.
Nearby is Brookfield Place, a complex of several commercial buildings formerly known as the World Financial Center.
The existing residential neighborhood of Battery Park City is divided into northern and southern parts, separated by Brookfield Place. The northern part consists entirely of large buildings, 20-45 floors, all varying shades of orange brick. The southern part, stretching from Winter Garden, located in Brookfield Place, contains residential apartment buildings like Gateway Plaza and Rector Place apartment buildings. In this section there are most residential areas of Battery Park City, in three parts: Gateway Plaza, a high-rise building complex; "Rector of Residence of Housing"; and "Battery Place Residential Neighborhood". This sub-section contains most of the residential buildings in the area, along with garden spaces, supermarkets, restaurants and cinemas. Construction of residential buildings began north of the World Financial Center in the late 1990s, and completion of many finals took place in early 2011. In addition, the restoration of the park is completed in 2013.
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History
Site and formation
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the area adjacent to Battery Park City is now known as Little Syria with Lebanese, Greek, Armenian, and other ethnic groups. In 1929, the land was the proposed site of a $ 50 million housing construction that would serve workers in the Wall Street area. The Battery Tower Project was left unfinished after workers dug the runway into an old forty meters, a hooded pier, and a ship. Construction stopped and never started again.
In the late 1950s, the once prosperous harbor area in downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of crumbling delivery docks, casualties from increased shipping containers driving sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. The initial proposal to reclaim this area through the TPA was offered in the early 1960s by private companies and supported by the mayor. The plan became complicated when Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced his intention to rebuild parts of it as a separate project. The various groups reached a compromise, and in 1966 the governor announced a proposal to become Battery Park City. The creation of architect Wallace K. Harrison, the proposal called for a 'comprehensive community' consisting of housing, social infrastructure and light industry. The landscaped garden space and then the Winter Garden was designed by M. Paul Friedberg.
In 1968, the New York State Legislature created the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to oversee development. The New York State Urban Development Corporation and ten other public institutions are also involved in the development project. Over the next few years, BPCA made slow progress. In April 1969, he announced a master plan for the area, which was approved in October. In early 1972, BPCA spent $ 200 million in bonds to fund development efforts, with Harry B. Helmsley appointed as developer. In the same year, low-income housing units were removed from the master plan due to opposition.
Landfill material from World Trade Center construction is used to add contents to the southern part. Cellular cofferdams are built to preserve the material. After the release of the docks, the piles of wood and overburden from the mud, the north (north, and including the marina) are filled with sand dredged from areas adjacent to the Ambrose Channel in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as stones from the construction of Water. Tunnel # 3. In 1976, the landfill was completed. Seating stands to watch the American Bicentennial "Operet Sail" flotilla parade set up in a landfill completed in July 1976. The construction efforts stopped in 1977, as a result of the city's fiscal crisis. That year, the presidential administration of Jimmy Carter approved mortgage insurance for the 1,600 proposed development units. In 1979, the right to TPA was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut. At that time, only two proposed development buildings had been built, and the issue of $ 200 million worth of bonds should have been paid in the following year.
The BPC design to some degree reflects the city's dynamic environmental values ​​championed by Jane Jacobs. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) awarded the Battery Park City Heritage Master Plan Award 2010, having "facilitated the personal development of 9.3 million square feet of commercial space, 7.2 million square feet of residential space, and nearly 36 acres of open space in Manhattan the bottom, became the model for a successful large-scale planning effort and marked a positive shift from the pattern of urban renewal at the time. "
Initial construction and development
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the site became the venue for Creative Arts exhibitions at the Beach Time sculpture exhibit. On September 23, 1979, TPA was the location of an anti-nuclear demonstration attended by 200,000 people.
Construction began in the first residential building in June 1980. In April 1981, the New York State Urban Development Corporation (now Empire State Development Corporation) issued a request for a proposal, eventually selecting six real-estate companies to develop more than 1,800 housing units. In the same year, the World Financial Center began construction; Olympia and York Toronto are referred to as developers for the World Financial Center, which then employs Cesar Pelli as the main architect. In 1985, construction was completed and the World Financial Center (later renamed Brookfield Place New York) saw its first tenant. The new development was praised by The New York Times as an "urban design victory," with the World Financial Center considered a "symbol of change."
During the initial construction, two hectares of land in the southern portion of the Battery Park landfill was used by artist Agnes Denes to grow wheat in an exhibit entitled "Wheatfield - A Confrontation". The project was a visual contradiction: a grain of gold fields located between steel skyscrapers in downtown Manhattan. It was created during a six-month period in spring, summer, and autumn of 1982 when Denes, with the support of the Public Arts Fund, planted wheat fields on debris land near Wall Street and the World Trade Center site. Denes states that "his decision to grow wheat fields in Manhattan, instead of designing just another public statue, grew out of a long-standing concern and needed to pay attention to our misplaced priorities and deterioration of human values."
Throughout the 1980s, BPCA oversaw many constructions, including the entire Rector Place neighborhood and river plans. During that period, Amanda Burden, then Director of Urban Planning in the administration of Bloomberg, worked at Battery Park City. During the 1980s, a total of 13 buildings were built. Vietnam Veterans Plaza was founded by Edward I. Koch in 1985. In the early 1990s, Battery Park City became the new home of Stuyvesant Secondary School. During the 1990s, an additional six buildings were added to the neighborhood. At the turn of the 21st century, Battery Park City is largely finished, with the exception of some ongoing development on West Street.
Initially, in the 1980s, 23 buildings were built in the area. In the 1990s, 9 more buildings were built, followed by the construction of 11 buildings in the 2000s and 3 buildings in the 2010s. Battery Park City Authority, which wants to attract more middle-class residents, began subsidizing in 1998 to families whose annual income was $ 108,000 or less. By the end of the decade, almost all of the waste dump has been built.
The beginning of the 21st century
The September 11 attacks in 2001 had a major impact on Battery Park City. Lower Manhattan residents and in particular Battery Park City are evacuating for a long time. Part of the community is an official TKP and therefore residents can not return to live or even collect property. Many displaced people are not allowed to return to the area for months and no one is provided with temporary residence on the densely populated island of Manhattan. With most hotel rooms booked, residents, including children and elderly are forced to take care of themselves.
When they were finally allowed to return to Battery Park City, some found that their home had been looted. After the return of residents, the air in the area was still filled with toxic fumes from World Trade Center fires that lasted until December 2001. More than half the population of the area moved permanently from the community after the adjacent World Trade Center towers collapsed and spread dust, debris and smoke toxic. Gateway 600 Building, Hudson View East, and Parc Place (now Rector Square) are stabbed by aircraft parts. Winter Parks and other parts of the World Financial Center were heavily damaged. Dust-related environmental issues from the Trade Center are a source of continuing concern for many residents, scientists and elected officials. Since the attack, the damage has been fixed. The reduction in temporary rent and government subsidies helped restore occupancy in the years following the attack.
After September 11, 2001, Battery Park City and Tribeca residents formed the TriBattery Pops Tom Goodkind Conductor in response to the attack events. "Pops" has been nominated by the Grammys and was the first community group of Manhattan underground volunteers in a century.
Since then, real estate development in the area has continued. Commercial development includes 2,100,000 square feet 200 West Street, Goldman Sachs headquarters, which started construction in 2005 and opened for occupancy in October 2009. 200 West Street is looking for certification the gold level under the United States Green Building Leadership and Environment (LEED) Leadership Program by incorporating various water and energy conservation features. Several housing projects are underway, including a LEED building that serves environmental awareness.
Ownership and maintenance
Battery Park City is owned and managed by the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), a Class A public benefit company created by New York State in 1968 to rebuild the worn and damaged poles , a project that has involved land reclamation, replanning areas and facilitating new construction of mixed commercial and residential communities. It has operated under the authority of Urban Development Corporation. Its mission is "to plan, create, coordinate and maintain a balanced commercial, residential, retail, and parking community within the designated 92-acre site on the western side of Manhattan" in New York City. The authority board consists of seven unspecified members appointed by the governor and who serve a six-year term. BPCA is invested with substantial strength: BPCA can acquire, hold and dispose of real property, make rental agreements, borrow money and issue debt, and manage projects. Like other publicly profitable companies, BPCA is exempt from property tax and has the ability to issue tax-exempt bonds.
Under the 1989 agreement between BPCA and New York City, $ 600 million was transferred by BPCA to the city. Charles J. Urstadt, the first Chairman and CEO of BPCA, noted in an article published on August 19, 2007 at the New York Post that the total amount of funds was transferred to New York City. is above $ 1.4 billion, with BPCA continuing to contribute $ 200 million annually.
Excess revenue from the area will be contributed to other housing efforts, usually low-income projects in the Bronx and Harlem. Much of this funding has historically been transferred to general city expenditures, under section 3.d of the 1989 agreement. However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Financial Supervisor William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund originating from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenue. The fund aims to conserve or create 4,300 low- and middle-income housing units in 2009. It also provides seed financing for the New York Acquisition Fund, an $ 230 million initiative that aims to serve as a catalyst for further development and preservation. of 30,000 affordable housing units across the city by 2016. The Acquisition Fund has since established itself as a model for similar funds in cities and states across the country.
Demographics
At the 2000 census, there were 7,951 people living in Battery Park City. Population density was 41,032 people per square mile (15,855/km ²). Environmental racial makeup is 75% White, 17.93% Asia, 0.04% Pacific Island, 2.97% African American, 0.06% Native Americans, 1.58% of other races, and 2.42% of two or more races. 5.32% of the population is Hispanic from any race. 27.7% of the population were born overseas, 51.8% came from Asia, 30.8% from Europe, 8.2% from Latin America and 9.2% from others (mostly Canada).
In 2007, approximately 10,000 people lived in Battery Park City, mostly upper and upper middle class (54.0% of households had revenues above $ 100,000). When fully built, the environment is projected to have 14,000 inhabitants. The history of the population is as follows:
- 1980: -
- 1990: 5,574
- 2000: 7,951
- 2010: 13,386
Cultural heritage
An Arab-American environment largely adjacent to what is now called Battery Park City from the late 1880s to the 1940s. "Little Syria" includes Washington Street from Battery Park to Rector Street. This declined as neighborhoods became successful and moved to other areas, especially Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, and disappeared almost entirely when many lower Washington Street were destroyed to open the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, which opened in 1950. The majority of the population were Arabic-speaking Christians, Melkite and Maronite immigrants from Syria and Lebanon who lived in this area at the end of the 19th century, fleeing religious persecution and poverty in their homeland - later under the control of the Ottoman Empire - and answering missionary vocations Americans to escape their difficulties by traveling to New York City.
However, many other ethnic groups live in this diverse environment, including Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Ireland.
The old reminder of ethnic past is the Greek Orthodox Church. Nicholas, who was destroyed in the September 11 attacks. An additional historical church, Syrian Catholic Church St. George, still standing on Washington Street.
Building
Residential
The first residential building in Battery Park City, Gateway Plaza, was completed in 1983. In 2010, the population of the area was 13,386. Some of the more prominent residential buildings include:
- Millennium Point , a 449-foot skyscraper (137 m), was built from 1999 to 2001. It occupies a street address of 25-39 Battery Place. However, due to the September 11 attacks that struck the World Trade Center nearby, the Millennium Point opening was postponed to January 2002. The building won the Silver Award Prize Award in 2001. The tower section contains 113 luxury condos. More spacious, lower 12 floors are occupied by 5 star hotels, The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park. The hotel has 298 rooms, including 44 suites, with the largest suite of 200 square meters (2,150Ã, sqÃ, ft) in this area. The Skyscraper Museum occupies a small space on the first floor of the building. A restaurant is located on the 14th floor.
- Solaire , the first green residential building in the United States, as well as the first high-end residential building in New York City certified by the US Green Building Board. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli and completed in 2003, it has been described as a "progressive environmental housing tower". Solaire is located at 20 River Terrace. Developers receive funds from the State of New York, which is somewhat controversial because developers are only required to set aside 10% of the unit as "affordable housing" or "moderate income", rather than the usual 80:20 deal.. When the building is opened, rental rates range from about $ 2,500 to $ 9,001 depending on unit size. The building has been rated LEED Platinum. The design of energy conservation buildings is 35% more energy efficient than the required code, generating 67% less electricity demand during peak hours, resulting in, among other benefits, lower electricity bills for residents, photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight into electricity, and computerized building management systems and environmentally responsible operations and maintenance practices.
Other residential condominiums include:
Other residential apartments include:
Office
Battery Park City, which is mainly residential, also has several office buildings. The seven buildings in the Brookfield Place complex, as well as 200 West Street, are the only office building in the neighborhood.
Brookfield Place complex
Located in the middle of Battery Park City and overlooking the Hudson River, Brookfield Place, designed by CÃÆ' Â © sar Pelli and owned mostly by Brookfield Office Properties based in Toronto, has been the office of major corporations including Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Nomura Group, American Express and Brookfield Asset Management, among others. Brookfield Place also serves as the United States headquarters for Brookfield Office Properties, which is headquartered at 200 Vesey Street. Brookfield Place also has its own postal code, 10281.
The ground floor of Brookfield Place and part of the second floor is occupied by a mall; Its central point is the steel and glass atrium known as the Winter Garden. Outside Winter Garden is located a sizable yacht harbor at Hudson known as North Cove.
The original developers of the buildings are Olympia and York Toronto, Ontario. It used to be called the World Financial Center, but in 2014, the complex was named today after the completion of a massive renovation. The World Financial Center complex was built by Olympia and York between 1982 and 1988; it was damaged in the September 11 attacks but was later remedied. It has six constituent buildings - 200 Liberty Street, 225 Liberty Street, 200 Vesey Street, 250 Vesey Street, Atrium Winter Garden, and One North End Avenue (a.k.a. New York Mercantile Exchange Building).
200 West Street
200 West Street is the location of Goldman Sachs global headquarters, an investment banking company. The 449-foot (44-foot) 44-storey building on the west side of West Street between Vesey and Murray Streets, north of Brookfield Place and Conrad Hotels, across the street from the Verizon Building, and across the diagonal of the World Trade Center. This is typical for being the only office building in the northern part of Battery Park City. It started construction in 2005 and opened in 2009.
Crime
This area is located in an area guarded by 1 NYPD Police Station at 1 Ericsson Place in Tribeca; This area also covers the western part of Manhattan, including Tribeca, World Trade Center, Financial District, and Hudson Square, as well as Governors Island. The overall area is relatively quiet, without killing, 12 rape, 68 robberies, 81 crime attacks, 171 robberies, 1,051 massive thefts, and 27 massive thefts are reported automatically in the region by 2013.
Transportation
Currently, the Metropolitan Transport Authority provides bus services to the area. In October 2014, M9, M20, M22 bus service line from Battery Park City, with M15, SBS M15 nearby in Battery Park. In addition, the Downtown Alliance provides a free bus service that runs along North End Avenue and South End Avenue, connecting various residential complexes with a subway station on the other side of West Street.
There is currently no New York City Subway access in Battery Park City; However, the West Street pedestrian bridge, as well as the crosswalk across West Street, connects Battery Park City to the nearby PATH subway and PATH stations in the Financial District. A tunnel from Brookfield Place under West Street also provides access from Battery Park City to PATH World Trade Center station. The Battery Park City Ferry Terminal is at the foot of Vesey Street across from the New York Mercantile Exchange and provides ferry transportation to various points in New Jersey.
Education
School
The Battery Park City School includes:
- P.S. 89
- I.S. 289
- P.S./I.S. 276 (Battery Park City School)
- Stuyvesant High School, who moved to a new building by the sea in Battery Park City in 1992
Library
Battery Park City has a branch of the New York Public Library at 175 North End Avenue, designed by 1100 Architects and completed in 2010. A 10,000 square foot (930 square meter) high-rise two-storey library on a high street level. residential buildings, using some sustainable design features, thus earning LEED Gold certification.
Sustainability is the driving factor in library design including the use of energy-efficient lighting systems, natural lighting maximization, and the use of recycled materials. 1100 Architects, in collaboration with Atelier Ten, an international team of environmental design consultants and building service engineers, designed energy-efficient lighting system libraries. The open plan layout and the use of large glass allows quite a lot of natural daylight and low-energy LED lights illuminate the communal space. Recycled materials incorporated into the design include rugs made from re-manufactured truck tires, wooden floor frames of reclaimed windows, and furniture made of FSC certified plywood and recycled steel. The design features include a "floating" origami-shaped ceiling consisting of triangular panels hung on various corners and soft reading angles mounted on steel and concrete steps on the library's terrace. The interior uses an easy-to-navigate layout with three different spatial areas from the entrance area, first floor rooms, and mezzanine visually united through the ceiling.
The building also won the Interior Design, Best Merit Award of 2011, followed by The National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association , Port Morris Tile and Marble Corporation Craftsmanship Award in 2011 and > Contract , Public Space Interface Award in 2012.
Garden and open space
More than a third of the neighborhood is a park.
Some large open spaces and parks include:
- Teardrop Park is located in the midblock, near the corner of Warren Street and River Terrace. Before it was built, the site was empty and flat; part of the environmental development plan, the park is designed to anticipate four high-rise residential towers in the west and east. Although the New York City public park, maintenance is supervised by Battery Park City Parks Conservancy and the park is designed for the Battery Park City Authority. The park opened on 30 September 2004. There is also a southern extension to this park.
- Washington Street Plaza, a pedestrian plaza on Washington Street between Carlisle and Albany Streets, opened on May 23, 2013.
In addition, there are:
- Community Ballfields, North End Avenue between Murray and Warren Streets
- The Esplanade, along the Hudson River from Stuyvesant High School to Battery Park
- Monsignor Kowsky Plaza, east of the Esplanade
- Nelson A. Rockefeller State Park, north end of Battery Park City west of River Terrace
- North Cove, on the river between Liberty Street and Vesey Street.
- Oval Lawn, east of Esplanade
- Rector Park, South End Avenue at Rector Place
- Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, north of Battery Park off Battery Place
- South Cove, on Esplanade, between First and Third Places
- West Thames Park, West Street between Albany and West Thames Street
- World Financial Center Plaza, inside Brookfield Place
Museums and warnings
- Irish Hunger Memorial, located on a 0.5 hectare (0.20 ha) site on Vesey Street and North End Avenue. It is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine. Construction began in March 2001, and the warning was completed and dedicated on July 16, 2002.
- The Jewish Heritage Museum, a memorial to those who died in the Holocaust
- Skyscraper Museum, an architectural museum at Millennium Point
Famous citizen
Notable residents include:
- Tyra Banks (born 1973), TV Personality
- Leonardo DiCaprio, actor, resident of 1 Rockefeller Park
- Sacha Baron Cohen, actor and comedian, former resident of 1 Rockefeller Park
- Isla Fisher, actress, former resident of 1 Rockefeller Park
- Dave Gahan, musician, resident 1 Rockefeller Park
- Kris Humphries, basketball player, resident of Liberty Luxe
References
Note
Further reading
- Gordon, David L.A. (1997) Battery Park City: Politics and Planning at New York Waterfront , Gordon and Breach Publishers
External links
- Official website (Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority)
- Battery Park Blog - Includes Battery Park City, Financial District, and Tribeca
- Battery Park City News, Events & amp; Food
- North Cove Marina
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