{"id":3746,"date":"2026-08-04T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/the-battery-manhattan-2"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:49:49","slug":"the-battery-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan","title":{"rendered":"The Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"padrino-inject-root\">\n<div class=\"padrino-inject-inner\">\n<div data-padrino-shell=\"1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/top-parks\">\u2190 TOP 10 venues in Manhattan \u2014 best parks 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Park<\/strong> \u00b7 <span>Manhattan<\/span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.3\/10 \u00b7 80086 reviews  \u00b7 <em>updated: 2026-08-04 20:06:32<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> <span>New York, 10004, United States<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex is-nowrap wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"tel:+1212-344-3491\">Call<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/?api=1&amp;destination=40.7029312,-74.0153603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get directions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a78822c6f959\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a78822c6f959\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#The_Battery_%E2%80%94_twenty-five_acres_where_Manhattan_ends_and_the_harbour_begins\" >The Battery \u2014 twenty-five acres where Manhattan ends and the harbour begins<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Highlights\" >Highlights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#What_youll_find\" >What you&#8217;ll find<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\" >Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Getting_there_practical\" >Getting there &amp; practical<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#When_to_visit\" >When to visit<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Good_to_know\" >Good to know<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Visitor_tips\" >Visitor tips<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Questions_answers\" >Questions &amp; answers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Photos\" >Photos<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/the-battery-manhattan\/#Visitor_reviews\" >Visitor reviews<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Battery_%E2%80%94_twenty-five_acres_where_Manhattan_ends_and_the_harbour_begins\"><\/span>The Battery \u2014 twenty-five acres where Manhattan ends and the harbour begins<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is the island&#8217;s front door, and it has been for four centuries. The Battery takes its name from the artillery emplacements the Dutch and then the British built here in the late seventeenth century to cover the fort and the settlement behind it; much of the ground you walk on today did not exist then, having been made by landfill from the 1850s onwards using earth from Lower Manhattan&#8217;s street works. Standing at the water&#8217;s edge you look straight out across New York Harbor to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Governors Island, with the Staten Island Ferry crossing in front of you every half hour. Behind you sit twenty-five acres that manage to hold a 1811 fort, a bioluminescent carousel, some of the most sophisticated perennial planting in North America, a working farm and a memorial to nearly five thousand men lost in the Atlantic \u2014 all within a ten-minute walk.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Highlights\"><\/span>Highlights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Castle Clinton<\/strong> \u2014 the circular red sandstone fort begun in 1808 and finished in 1811 as the West Battery, designed by John McComb Jr. with Jonathan Williams as consulting engineer. It mounted twenty-eight thirty-two-pounder guns on what was then an artificial island offshore, and it never fired a shot in anger. Renamed for Mayor DeWitt Clinton in 1815, ceded to the city in 1823 and reopened as the Castle Garden entertainment hall in 1824, it is now a National Monument and the ticket office for the harbour ferries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SeaGlass Carousel<\/strong> \u2014 opened in 2015 inside a nautilus-shaped glass pavilion, with thirty luminous fibreglass fish that rise, dip and rotate independently while the whole platform turns. It is a deliberate nod to the site&#8217;s history: Castle Clinton housed the New York Aquarium from 1896 to 1941.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Battery Gardens by Piet Oudolf<\/strong> \u2014 the Dutch designer&#8217;s first New York commission, the Gardens of Remembrance, was planted on the elevated waterfront promenade in 2003 in response to the attacks of 11 September 2001. The Bosque followed in 2005 at the park&#8217;s southern end, and further organically shaped garden beds were added later. The planting is naturalistic and structural, built to hold its shape through seed head and stem right into winter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Battery Woodland<\/strong> \u2014 opened to the public in 2017, four acres of lawn shaded by eighty-two mature trees, the closest thing in the Financial District to a real wood, and the park&#8217;s best picnic ground.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The harbour ferries<\/strong> \u2014 boats to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island leave from the park, with tickets sold inside Castle Clinton itself, while the Staten Island Ferry terminal sits at the park&#8217;s eastern edge and runs free of charge around the clock.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The East Coast Memorial<\/strong> \u2014 eight granite pylons nineteen feet high, flanking a bronze eagle, inscribed with the names of 4,601 American servicemen who died in the western Atlantic in the Second World War and have no grave but the sea. It was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy on 23 May 1963.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_youll_find\"><\/span>What you&#8217;ll find<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Battery is managed in partnership between the city and the Battery Conservancy, the non-profit founded in 1994 by Warrie Price, which drove the horticultural rebuilding of the park and the recovery of the shoreline after Hurricane Sandy flooded it in 2012. The park&#8217;s historic name \u2014 simply The Battery, not Battery Park \u2014 was formally restored in 2015.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Battery Playscape<\/strong> \u2014 a 1.5-acre playground opened in December 2021 to a design by BKSK Architects, built around five coastal ecology zones with granite slides down a bluff, sand and water play, elevated structures and a small outdoor performance box.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Battery Urban Farm<\/strong> \u2014 an educational working farm run by the Conservancy with schools and volunteers, growing dozens of crops in the middle of the Financial District.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monuments across the park<\/strong> \u2014 The Immigrants by Luis Sanguino, dedicated on 3 May 1973, showing figures of different eras and origins arriving; the American Merchant Mariners&#8217; Memorial by Marisol Escobar, dedicated 8 October 1991, whose fourth figure reaches from the water and is submerged by every high tide; and the Netherland Monument flagpole, given by the Dutch and dedicated on 6 December 1926 to mark three centuries since the purchase of Manhattan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hope Garden<\/strong> \u2014 planted in 1988 and enlarged in 1992 as a living memorial to those lost to AIDS, one of the earliest such memorials in the city.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Battery Bikeway and waterfront promenade<\/strong> \u2014 a protected route around the tip of the island that closes the gap between the Hudson River Greenway on the west side and the East River path, making a continuous circuit of Manhattan&#8217;s shoreline possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open lawn and harbour views<\/strong> \u2014 the central oval of grass and the railing along the water give the clearest, closest free view of the Statue of Liberty available from Manhattan, best in the late afternoon when the light is behind you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\"><\/span>Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First-time visitors to New York<\/strong> \u2014 this is the assembly point for Liberty and Ellis Island, and even without boarding a boat the harbour view from the railing does most of the work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>People tracing family history<\/strong> \u2014 before Ellis Island there was Castle Garden, through which some eight million immigrants passed between 1855 and 1890; if your family reached America before 1892, they most likely landed here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Families with children<\/strong> \u2014 the Playscape and the SeaGlass Carousel are among the best-designed things of their kind in the city, and the Woodland gives shade and space to run.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gardeners and plant people<\/strong> \u2014 Oudolf&#8217;s perennial and grass plantings here are the reason horticulturists cross the harbour, and they read completely differently in June, September and January.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cyclists and runners<\/strong> \u2014 the bikeway around the island&#8217;s tip is the connecting link that turns the two river paths into one loop.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anyone with an hour to spare downtown<\/strong> \u2014 the park is small enough to cross in ten minutes and rich enough to reward an hour, which makes it the most efficient green break in the Financial District.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_there_practical\"><\/span>Getting there &amp; practical<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Battery occupies the southern tip of Manhattan, wrapped around the bottom of the Financial District, with Battery Park City to the west and the harbour on two sides. Transit is straightforward: the 1 line terminates at South Ferry, the 4 and 5 stop at Bowling Green, the R and W arrive beside the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and the 2 and 3 leave you a short walk north. The Staten Island Ferry itself docks at the park&#8217;s edge and is free in both directions, which makes it the cheapest harbour cruise in the world; ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island are ticketed separately and board from within the park. Entry to the park is free and there are no gates. Castle Clinton is a National Park Service site and free to enter during its opening hours; the SeaGlass Carousel and the harbour ferries charge their own fares. Allow an hour for a walk through the gardens and along the waterfront, half a day if you are taking a boat to Liberty Island. The park is exposed to the harbour on two sides, so it is colder and windier than the streets behind it in winter and noticeably cooler in summer.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_to_visit\"><\/span>When to visit<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Spring brings the bulbs and early perennials in the Oudolf beds and the first comfortable days on the waterfront, with the ferry queues still manageable. Summer is peak harbour season \u2014 long light, boats constantly moving, the Woodland lawn in use all day, and a sea breeze that makes this several degrees more bearable than the Financial District&#8217;s canyons. Autumn is the connoisseur&#8217;s moment in the gardens: Oudolf plants for structure and seed head as much as for flower, and the beds hold their form and colour through October and November while the harbour light turns gold. Winter strips the park to skeleton planting, bare trees and open water; it is cold and windy, but the views are at their sharpest and the crowds at Castle Clinton are at their thinnest.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Good_to_know\"><\/span>Good to know<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The single most consequential building here is Castle Clinton, and its five separate lives explain the park. Built between 1808 and 1811 as the West Battery to defend the harbour against the British, it was garrisoned in the War of 1812 and never used in combat. It was renamed Castle Clinton in 1815 for Mayor DeWitt Clinton, ceded to the city in 1823 and roofed over as Castle Garden, a public entertainment hall, in 1824 \u2014 a reception there for the Marquis de Lafayette in September 1824 drew six thousand people. Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph in the hall, and in 1850 the impresario P. T. Barnum staged the American debut of the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind there, an event so oversubscribed that tickets were sold at auction. Then, on 1 August 1855, the building opened as the first official immigrant receiving station in the United States. Over the next thirty-five years, until it closed on 18 April 1890, somewhere between 7.5 and 8 million people entered America through Castle Garden \u2014 the great mid-century waves from Ireland and the German states, and later from central and eastern Europe \u2014 before federal processing moved to the newly built station on Ellis Island in 1892. The word &#8220;Kesselgarden&#8221; entered Yiddish and German-American speech as a byword for chaotic multilingual confusion. From 1896 to 1941 the fort housed the New York Aquarium, one of the city&#8217;s most popular attractions, until Parks Commissioner Robert Moses closed it and proposed demolishing the structure entirely as part of his plans for a Brooklyn crossing. A preservation campaign, unusually for the era, defeated him: the building was designated a National Monument on 12 August 1946, restored over the following decades and reopened to the public in 1975. The surrounding park has been rebuilt almost as many times as the fort. Landfill from the 1850s joined the fort&#8217;s island to Manhattan; the twentieth century added and removed roadways and a ferry terminal; and since 1994 the Battery Conservancy has driven a comprehensive redesign, including the Oudolf gardens from 2003, the SeaGlass Carousel and Battery Bikeway in 2015, the Woodland in 2017 and the Playscape in 2021. Hurricane Sandy pushed the harbour over the seawall in October 2012 and drowned much of the planting in salt water, which is why the current design leans heavily on salt-tolerant species and a rebuilt, hardened shoreline. One more piece of the park&#8217;s recent history has since moved on: Fritz Koenig&#8217;s bronze sphere, which stood at the centre of the World Trade Center plaza and survived 11 September 2001 crushed but intact, was displayed here from 2002 until 2017, when it was returned to the World Trade Center site.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visitor_tips\"><\/span>Visitor tips<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Book Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferry tickets in advance and arrive early \u2014 the queue forms outside Castle Clinton and security screening at the dock takes longer than the crossing itself.<\/li>\n<li>If you only want the harbour and the skyline, ride the Staten Island Ferry instead: it is free, runs day and night, and passes close to Liberty Island on the way, with the best views from the starboard side heading out.<\/li>\n<li>Come to the Oudolf gardens in late September or October rather than high summer \u2014 the grasses and seed heads are what the design is actually about, and almost nobody visits for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Questions_answers\"><\/span>Questions &amp; answers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Is The Battery free to visit?<\/strong> Yes. The park is open and free, with no gates or tickets, and Castle Clinton is a National Park Service site that is free to enter during opening hours. The SeaGlass Carousel and the ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island are ticketed separately; the Staten Island Ferry is free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do the Statue of Liberty ferries leave from?<\/strong> From within the park, with the ticket office inside Castle Clinton. This is the only authorised departure point on the Manhattan side, and boats call at both Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Buying in advance and arriving early makes a substantial difference to the wait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was this really an immigration station before Ellis Island?<\/strong> Yes. Castle Garden operated as the first official immigrant receiving station in the United States from 1 August 1855 to 18 April 1890, admitting roughly 7.5 to 8 million people. Federal processing then moved to Ellis Island, which opened in 1892. If your ancestors arrived in New York before that date, they were almost certainly landed here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is it called The Battery and not Battery Park?<\/strong> Because of the artillery batteries positioned here in the seventeenth century to defend the fort and settlement of what was then New Amsterdam and later New York. The park&#8217;s historic name, The Battery, was formally restored in 2015 after decades of common usage as Battery Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is there for children?<\/strong> The Battery Playscape, opened in December 2021, is a 1.5-acre playground built around five coastal ecology zones with granite slides, sand and water play and climbing structures. The SeaGlass Carousel with its thirty illuminated fish is the other draw, and the Woodland lawn gives open space to run.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you see the Statue of Liberty without taking a boat?<\/strong> Yes \u2014 the railing along the water gives the closest free view of it from Manhattan, and it is unobstructed. Late afternoon light is best. For a closer look without a ticket, the free Staten Island Ferry passes it on every crossing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long should I allow?<\/strong> An hour covers the gardens, the fort, the memorials and the waterfront at a walking pace. Half a day is the minimum if you intend to take the ferry to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, since security screening, the crossing and the museums add up quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"entity-gallery\" class=\"padrino-entity-gallery\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photos\"><\/span>Photos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/the-battery-manhattan-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Battery\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/the-battery-manhattan-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Battery\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/the-battery-manhattan-3.jpg\" alt=\"The Battery\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/the-battery-manhattan-4.jpg\" alt=\"The Battery\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/the-battery-manhattan-5.jpg\" alt=\"The Battery\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/the-battery-manhattan-6.jpg\" alt=\"The Battery\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<details>\n<summary>Show 1 more photos<\/summary>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/the-battery-manhattan-7.jpg\" alt=\"The Battery\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments-area wp-block-group\">\n<h2 class=\"comments-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visitor_reviews\"><\/span>Visitor reviews<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"comment-list\">\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-0\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-0\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Liudmyla Petruk<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n5 June 2025<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A small, lovely park by the ferry terminal. The park has a mini garden where vegetables, berries and fruit grow. A nice place for pleasant walks. A view of the Statue of Liberty and New Jersey  I recommend visiting<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Tanya Andreyeva<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n4 August 2023<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A nice place, lots of playgrounds, restrooms, a nice view of the river.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Andrew<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n20 December 2020<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>Clean, convenient transportation, the ferry to Staten Island is right there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>\u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0456\u0439 \u0420\u0435\u0431\u0440\u0438\u043a<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n17 June 2018<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A cool park with a view of the Statue of Liberty. The ferry to Liberty and Ellis Island costs about $20.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of little caf\u00e9s, fountains and playgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>You can walk along the waterfront. The free ferry to S\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Jiles *<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n26 February 2024<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 8.1\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A pretty park; the ferry to the Statue of Liberty leaves from here, and there&#039;s also a heliport where you can take a flight over New York; closer to evening they sell fruit in cups and bags, you can ride the kids&#039; fish c\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Reviews last updated: 2026-08-04 20:06:32<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Data is refreshed monthly. 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