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#1
July 5th, 2004, 11:42 PM
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Battery Park City Photos
Wagner Park and the still not renovated Pier A
 It’s called “Eyes”  Copper deposit  Plaza at Battery Pl. Concerts here sometimes.  For security reasons, the cul de sac First Pl was never opened. After completion of the museum wing, the street was demapped, and the Olin Partnership designed a pedestrian connection to the esplanade.  South Cove  Lower Manhattan over the re-clad Battery Garage. The last two undeveloped lots in the south neighborhood.  Law enforcement is sometimes pastoral.  A hole gets filled.  Cinemas and restaurants. This space should become more defined when Goldman Sachs is built.  Rockefeller Park  Real World by Tom Otterness  More photos here. 
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#2
July 6th, 2004, 12:01 AM
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Great photos...When I made my trip to NYC in May we stayed at the Ritz in Battery Park for 3 days...It was great to just walk up and down the esplanade..Its truely a beautiful place and my favorite part of the city! (that I have visited so far
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#4
July 6th, 2004, 02:11 AM
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The reclad garage is coming along. This is to be used for cultural space now, right? Is it all for this new use, or a mix, with parking (probably the latter)?
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#5
July 6th, 2004, 06:20 AM
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As far as I know, the garage will remain a parking facility. There is a plan to reconfigure traffic and maybe deck over part of the tunnel entrance for park space, but I've heard nothing since the LMDC planning study 2 years ago.
I wonder what treatment the original, and better designed, original garage building will get?
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#6
July 6th, 2004, 07:50 AM
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Battery Park really is one of the coolest parts of the city, probably one of the most successful renewal projects in the country.
And that South Cove place is awesome after dark. When I was there last week, a friend and I went down there around midnight to smoke, and the blue lights were beyond trippy.
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#10
July 7th, 2004, 03:02 AM
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The area boomed after 9-11 as the rents/prices dropped a bit, a load of gov't incentives were given to people that move/stay there (and lower manhattan) and b/c lower manhattan in general is becoming more of a typcial 24/7 "real" NYC neighborhood (and not just offices). BPC is really an amazing place. I used to love working around there.
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#11
July 7th, 2004, 12:30 PM
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BPC is nice and I love the parks but it lacks more connection to the rest of downtown. The residential areas that are close to midtown have a better connection around it. It feels like there is no difference of offices and apartment buildings once you start to look very closely in and around midtown.
Hopefully the new world trade center development will bring it all together somehow. The old world trade center wasn't very street friendly IMO.
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#12
July 7th, 2004, 02:33 PM
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