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Battery Park
Category: Parks and open spaces
The park is named for the artillery that was stationed there at various times by the Dutch and British in order to protect the harbor.
At one end of the park is Pier A and Hope Garden, a memorial to AIDS victims. At the other end is Battery Gardens restaurant, next to the United States Coast Guard Battery Building. Along the waterfront, ferries depart for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
The park itself was created by landfill during the 19th century, creating a treed open space at the foot of the heavily built-up mainland of Manhattan Island.
Skyscrapers now occupy the original land, stopping abruptly where the park begins.
On State Street, the former harbor front and the northern boundary of the park, a single Federal mansion survives. Until the 1820s, the city's stylish residential district lay north of this house, between Broadway and the "North" River.
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