Battery Travel Tips

By Jared "the tour guide" Goldstein, exclusively for Uncle Sam’s New York

Many subways go the Battery, since it is in the Financial District; Manhattan also gets really narrow here, and the Battery is close to the Staten Island Ferry and Brooklyn. You can take:


4 & 5 to Bowling Green


R & W to Whitehall St / South Ferry


1 to South Ferry or


J, M, Z to Broad St.


You can take a cab to #1 Broadway, or the intersection of Broadway and Battery Place. There is so much to do in and around the Battery, and it is all within short walking distance to discount shopping, dining, drinking, small, affordable, very good museums that are not crowded, historic sites and churches, architecture, the Staten Island Ferry, the Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island Ferry, and the NY Water Taxi.

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The Battery: Where New York City Begins

By Jared "the tour guide" Goldstein, exclusively for Uncle Sam’s New York

New York City started on Manhattan Island in today’s Downtown, Lower Manhattan Financial District below Wall Street. It began at the Battery on the bottom of the island.

The "Battery" refers to the fort, Castle Clinton, which protected New York City from the mighty British Navy with its battery of cannons. In the 19th Century, Castle Clinton served as P.T. Barnum’s Castle Clinton Gardens, where Jenny Lind, ‘the Swedish Nightingale,’ entertained thousands for her American debut. It also served as an immigration point of entry for eight million immigrants before Ellis Island opened for immigration in 1892. It later became the New York Aquarium, the largest in the world. After World War II the Aquarium moved to Coney Island and the Fort was restored and reopened as a National Monument.

Alexander Hamilton came to Boston as a 16 year-old immigrant from the Caribbean, but came to this area shortly after.


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