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LOCATIONDowntown Manhattan, just west of the World Trade Center, south of Chambers Street. APARTMENTS & REAL ESTATESince 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:
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See all Battery Park City Condo Apartment Buildings POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICSAbout 9,000 people, almost exclusively the upper middle class. SAFETYThe 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. HISTORYBattery 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. SYNOPSISThe 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. LINKS AND RESOURCES
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