Looking east along Battery Place:
The colorful construction fence hides the coastal resilience project currently taking place in Battery Park. The gray sky – and the hot and humid weather – were obviously not deterring the tourists heading into the park to buy tickets to visit the Statue of Liberty.
We’ve got a wide range of buildings visible, with the irregular street layout east of Broadway1 2 3 4 making the building layout look particularly random.
The oldest is One Broadway, above the yellow truck, from 1888, but it was heavily modified in the 1900s. 11 Broadway, to its left, is from 1896 and much closer to its original appearance. The blue glass tower on the right is 33 Whitehall, from 1986. The curved tower on the far right is 17 State Street, form 1988. It’s a bit sobering to realize those are both coming up on 40 years old. The newest building visible from this angle is the hotel at 8 Stone Street – the mostly-blank beige facade to the right of Two Broadway – but there are plenty of new buildings a few blocks further away, further east.
- Where Battery Place ends at the green-glass facade. (See footnote 2.) ↩︎
- Technically, that’s Whitehall Street, but you can’t see Bowling Green, so the Broadway/Whitehall distinction (see footnote 3) is sort of iffy from this angle. ↩︎
- I mean, the green facade is Two Broadway, but it’s on the east side of the street split at Bowling Green and mostly south of the green itself, so it really should be One Whitehall. (See footnite 4.) ↩︎
- Except it’s on the site of the much-lamented Produce Exchange, which was also called Two Broadway. Oh well. ↩︎
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