Boundaries:
Midtown West – 34th Street to 59th Street from Fifth Ave to Lexington Ave.
Hell’s Kitchen/Clinton – 34th Street to 50th Street between the Hudson River and Ninth Ave.
Theater District – 42nd Street to 53rd Street between Sixth Ave and Eighth Ave.
Battery Park City is a mainly residential 92-acre planned community and neighborhood on the west side of the southern tip of the island of Manhattan in New York City
It is bounded by the Hudson River on the west, the Hudson River shoreline on the north and south, and the West Side Highway on the east. The neighborhood is named for Battery Park, located directly to the south.
Battery Park City is considered the largest green neighborhood in the world.
It boasts 5 million square feet of environmentally sustainable design and construction, with residential buildings leading the way in sustainably conscious design and thirty-six acres of parks and gardens. 20 pieces of public art can be found around Battery Park City. Surrounded on three sides by the Hudson River and bound to the east by West Street, the neighborhood is adjacent to the Financial District. The neighborhood includes Brookfield Place (formerly the World Financial Center), along with numerous buildings designed for housing, commercial, and retail.
One-third of the Battery Park City development is parkland. The land upon which it is built was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using over 3 million cubic yards of soil and rock excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center, the New York City Water Tunnel, and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor or Staten Island.