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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BATTPK_160914_157.JPG: For three decades, this sculpture stood in the plaza of the World Trade Center. Entitled "The Sphere", it was conceived by artist Fritz Koenig as a symbol of world peace. It was damaged during the tragic events of September 11, 2001, but endures as an icon of hope and the indestructible spirit of this country. The Sphere was placed here on March 11, 2002 as a temporary memorial to all who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. This eternal flame was ignited on September 11, 2002 in honor of all those that were lost. Their spirit and sacrifice will never be forgotten.
2. BATTPK_160914_167.JPG: This monument erected on Admiral George Dewey Promenade to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898.
3. BATTPK_160914_181.JPG: Pichter Spielgera e GmbH Design: Alfons van Leggelo
4. BATTPK_160914_188.JPG: The rain was about to pound me. You can see the leaves flying just beforehand.
5. BATTPK_161004_006.JPG: Exploring Lower Manhattan The Historic Battery & Castle Clinton From early Dutch times the tip of Manhattan was fortified with the batteries of guns from which the Battery takes its name – first at the 17th-century Fort Amsterdam on the Custom House site, then at Castle Clinton. Fort Amsterdam disappeared long ago, but its rubble survives in the layers of landfill that eventually helped create 23 acres of Battery Park, in the process filling in the water separating Castle Clinton from the mainland. Today, The Battery Conservancy is implementing its award-winning Master Plan to recapture the park's harbor-side splendor. Completed in 1811, as part of New York City's harbor defense, Castle Clinton is among the oldest, most visited public buildings in Downtown. Transformed in 1824 into Castle Garden, showcasing balloonists, fireworks, and Italian opera companies, the former fort became the city's leading place of entertainment, and its preferred location for grand entrances by visiting celebrities. From 1855 until 1890 Castle Garden served as America's first official landing depot for new immigrants, "so well known in Europe," according to the New York Times in 1874, "that few immigrants could be induced to sail for any other destination." From 1896 to 1941, Castle Garden served as the New York Aquarium, in its day the world's largest. 100 wall tanks and 7 large pools played home to 8,000 creatures including turtles, sea lions, sturgeon, alligators, crocodiles, manatees, porpoises, beavers, seacows, electric eels, and whales, many living in salt water pumped in from New York Bay. Today, Castle Clinton is a National Monument operated by the National Park Service.
6. BATTPK_161004_012.JPG: Exploring Lower Manhattan Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Cass Gilbert, architect, 1899-1907 National Museum of the American Indian Before the income tax was invented, the duty levied on imported goods financed almost the entire cost of America's federal government – and as much as 80 per cent of that duty came through the Port of New York, making the New York Custom House a major national financial power. That's why Customs could build the sumptuous, Beaux-Arts masterpiece that majestically anchors the vista at the foot of Broadway. Cass Gilbert's extraordinary monument is laced with symbols of international trade from Mercury, god of commerce, to Daniel Chester French's huge, allegorical statues of, from left to right, Asia, America, Europe and Africa. The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House now houses the George Gustav Heye Center of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, bringing full circle the history of this remarkable site. The Museum sits on the original Algonquin trading ground at the foot of the Wiechquaekeck Trail, a centuries-old trade route whose original path has evolved into today's Broadway. The Custom House adaptation for reuse as the Museum has returned a Native American presence to the site.
7. BATTPK_161004_021.JPG: Battery Park construction looking southeast, June 3, 1946
8. BATTPK_161004_024.JPG: Bowling Green Park est. 1733 Bowling Green Park and Statue of De Peyster seen from Customs House stairway. Broadway, 1938
9. BATTPK_161004_036.JPG: Aerial image of the South Ferry Marina site, May 21, 1962 Ferry terminals in lower Manhattan, ca 1955-1958
10. BATTPK_161004_044.JPG: On the 22nd of April 1625 the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company decreed the establishment of Fort Amsterdam and the creation of ten adjoining farms. The purchase of the island of Manhattan was accomplished in 1626...
11. BATTPK_161004_047.JPG: In testimony of ancient and unbroken friendship this flagpole is presented to the city of New York by the Dutch people 1926
12. BATTPK_161004_054.JPG: The Battery New York
13. BATTPK_161004_064.JPG: The Immigrants Dedicated to the people of all nations who entered America through Castle Garden
14. BATTPK_161004_072.JPG: The Battery, the historic. 1851
15. BATTPK_161004_079.JPG: The Battery, the natural 7 acres of woodland
16. BATTPK_161004_098.JPG: 1941 * 1945 Erected by the United States of America in proud and grateful remembrance of her sons who gave their lives in her service and who sleep in the American coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean Into thy hands, O lord
17. BATTPK_161004_107.JPG: Albino Manca, 1961
18. BATTPK_161004_110.JPG: 1941 * 1945 In addition to the 4,597 American servicemen honored here who lost their lives in her service and who sleep in the American coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean The United States of America honors the 6,185 seamen of the United States merchant marine and the 529 seamen of the United States Army Transport Service who lost their lives during World War II.
19. BATTPK_161004_127.JPG: John Ericsson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Ericsson (born Johan) (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor, active in England and the United States, and regarded as one of the most influential mechanical engineers ever. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, won by George Stephenson's Rocket. In America he designed the US Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain Robert Stockton, who unjustly blamed him for a fatal accident. A new partnership with Cornelius H. DeLamater of the DeLamater Iron Works in New York resulted in the first armoured ship with a rotating turret, the USS Monitor, which dramatically saved the US naval blockading squadron from destruction by an ironclad Confederate vessel, CSS Virginia, at Hampton Roads in March 1862.
20. BATTPK_161004_141.JPG: The City of New York erects this statue to the memory of a citizen whose genius has contributed to the greatness of the republic and the progress of the world. April 26, 1893 On July 31, 1803, John Ericsson was born in L�ngbanshyttan, Sweden. Died in New York March 8, 1889
21. BATTPK_161004_163.JPG: J.S. Hartley 1902
22. BATTPK_161004_172.JPG: This ancient cannon was exhumed in 1892 on the site of No. 55 Broadway on the corner of Exchange Alley or "The Highway Leading to the Fortification Called Oyster Pasty" 1695-1783 Presented to the City of New York by William Henry Mairs Placed here by the children of the City History Club, 1914
Wikipedia Description: Battery Park
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Battery Park is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The area and park are named for the artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years to protect the settlement behind them.

History

The southern shoreline of Manhattan Island had long been known as "The Battery" since the 17th century when the area was part of the Dutch Settlement of New Amsterdam. At the time, an artillery battery there served to protect the seaward approaches to the town. The Battery continued its function during the colonial era, and was the center of Evacuation Day celebrations commemorating the departure of the last British troops in the United States after the American Revolutionary War. Just prior to the War of 1812, the West Battery, later renamed Castle Clinton, was erected on a small artificial offshore island nearby, to replace the earlier batteries in the area; later, when the land of Battery Park was created, it encircled and incorporated the island.

The relatively modern park was mostly created by landfill starting from 1855, resulting in a landscaped open space at the foot of the heavily developed mainland of downtown. Skyscrapers now occupy most of 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, the James Watson House, survives as part of the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton; until the 1820s, the city's stylish residential district was north of this house, between Broadway and the Hudson River.

While the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Battery Park Underpass were under construction from 1940–52, the park was partly closed; it was later re-landscaped and expanded by 2 acres (0.81 ha). Peter Minuit Plaza was built in 1955; the East Coast Memorial was dedicated in 1963. Battery Park was included within a "group of historic waterfront sites" designated Harbor Park, by the government of New York State, in 1982.

Custodianship

The Battery Park Conservancy, founded in 1994 by still-current President Warrie Price, has undertaken and funded the restoration and improvement of the once shop-worn park. In 2015, the New York City Department of Parks and the Battery Conservancy announced that the park would revert to its historic name, The Battery.
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