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Battery Park, Manhattan

Battery Park, 1849
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The original Battery was a line of cannon from the foot of Greenwich Street to the intersection of Whitehall and Water streets. The land beyond this boundary was underwater until around 1800, when landfill extended the shore outward.

 


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