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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 new neighborhood, pretty much all the buildings here (with the expection of those on the eastern border) were constructed in the last 30 years. Most apartments are one- and two- bedrooms.

Junior-level employees (even Wall Streeters) may find Battery Park City to be on the expensive side - you should be prepared to pay in excess of $3,000 per month for a typical "nothing special" one-bedroom apartment. On the other hand, these "nothing special" apartments are generally spacious and modern.

Selected Rental Buildings:

22 River Terrace (22 River Terrace, Battery Park City) - Offering spacious studio, one-, two- and three- bedroom apartments with panoramas of the Hudson River, ....
Gateway Plaza (345-395 South End Avenue, Battery Park City) - Completed in 1983 as the first residential development in Battery Park City, Gateway Plaza consists of si....
Le Rivage (21 West Street, Battery Park City) - Built in 1926 in the Art Deco style, and restored in 1998. Architectural details abound in the halls, lob....
Liberty Court (200 Rector Place, Battery Park City)
Liberty Terrace (380 Rector Place, Battery Park City)

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Selected No-Fee Rental Listings:

new! $3,000 1-Bedroom at Tribeca Pointe posted 05/14/08.
new! $3,750 2-Bedroom at 110 Greenwich (available July 1, 2008) posted 05/14/08.
new! $3,950 2-Bedroom at Post Towers (available May 14, 2008) posted 05/12/08.
new! $3,600 2-Bedroom at 90 West Street (available May 14, 2008) posted 05/12/08.
new! $3,895 1-Bedroom at Tribeca Green (available May 15, 2008) posted 05/10/08.

See all Battery Park City No Fee Rental Apartments (76 total)

Condo 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 f....

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POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS

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

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.

HISTORY

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.

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.