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Borough:	Manhattan
Population:	9000
Map:	Map of Battery Park City

LOCATION

Downtown Manhattan, just west of the World Trade Center, south of Chambers Street.

APARTMENTS & REAL ESTATE

Since Battery Park City is a relatively new neighborhood, pretty much all buildings here (with the exception of those on the neighborhood's eastern border) were constructed in the last 30 years. Most apartments are one- and two- bedrooms.

Selected Rental Buildings

22 River Terrace (Battery Park City) {5 available apts}
A modern high-rise concierge building.
Le Rivage (21 West Street, Battery Park City) {3 available apts}
Built in 1926 in the Art Deco style, restored and converted in 1998. Architectural details abound in the halls, lobby and elevators.
Liberty Court (200 Rector Place, Battery Park City) {5 available apts}
A high-rise concierge building.
Post Towers (75 West Street, Battery Park City) {8 available apts}
The building is named Post Towers after The New York Post, for which it was built in 1926. The Post left it in 1970, and the Bank of New York used it until 1996.
Tribeca Green (325 North End Avenue, Battery Park City) {1 available apt}
Luxury rental building offering a "more eco-friendly" lifestyle.

See all Battery Park City Rental Apartment Buildings (25 buildings)

Selected No-Fee Rental Listings

$4,670 2-Bedroom at Tribeca Bridge Tower posted 02/Jul/2009.
$2,625 1-Bedroom at 110 Greenwich Street available 02/Jul/2009 posted 02/Jul/2009.
$12,654 4-Bedroom at Tribeca Green available 02/Jul/2009 posted 01/Jul/2009.
$2,300 Studio at 90 W available 02/Jul/2009 posted 01/Jul/2009.
$2,625 1-Bedroom at Le Rivage available 02/Jul/2009 posted 01/Jul/2009.

See all Battery Park City No Fee Rental Apartments (71 total)

Condo & Co-op Buildings

88 Greenwich (88 Greenwich Street, Battery Park City)
Building with original Art Deco details
Millennium Tower Residences (30 West Street, Battery Park City)
LEED Gold-Certified building
The Visionaire (70 Little West Street, Battery Park City)
Environmentally sensitive building with high-efficiency fresh-air supply and exhaust system, centrally filtered water, an in-building wastewater treatment system that resupp....

See all Battery Park City Condo Apartment Buildings (6 buildings)

DEMOGRAPHICS

About 9,000 people, almost exclusively the upper middle class.

HISTORICAL NOTES

Battery Park City is a relatively new neighborhood created in the late 1970's when the original World Trade Center was being built. Battery Park City was planned from the beginning as a residential community for WTC and Wall Street workers. At least 1/3 of the land mass of Battery Park City was actually created artificially using the soil dug up from the World Trade Center foundation.

The neighborhood was seriously affected by the September 11 2001 tragedy. Many of its residential buildings were evacuated. However, since then practically all buildings have been thoroughly cleaned, the infrastructure fixed and services reestablished.

SAFETY

The area is removed from most "dangerous" things in the city (except terrorism, unfortunately). There are no housing projects, no empty buildings, no dark alleys, not much of anything, really - just modern residential high-rises.

SYNOPSIS

The neighborhood is extremely convenient for Wall Streeters as well as people working in Jersey City. If you like the lifestyle (which, by the way, doesn't feel like Manhattan at all) and the location but are a little paranoid about the environmental risks from the September 11 event, make sure you get an air purifier that can catch all the bad particles (down to the smallest possible size) that may have been potentially left in the building.

Eventually, when the World Trade Center is rebuilt, the neighborhood will be once again transformed into something completely new.