Editing Battery Park City (section)

== Parks and open spaces ==
[[File:Battery Park Panorama2.jpg|thumb|A field in Rockefeller State Park, with the buildings along River Terrace behind it]]
[[File:HungerMemorialNumber6.JPG|thumb|At the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue is the [[Irish Hunger Memorial]]]]
[[File:Museum of Jewish Heritage 004.JPG|thumb|The [[Museum of Jewish Heritage]] from the Hudson River]]
More than one-third of the neighborhood is parkland.<ref name=amny/>

Some large open spaces and parks include:
* [[Teardrop Park]] sits midblock, near the corner of Warren Street and River Terrace. Before construction, the site was empty and flat; part of the neighborhood's development plan, the park was designed in anticipation of four high residential towers on its west and east. Although a New York City public park, maintenance is overseen by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy and the park was designed for the Battery Park City Authority. The park opened on September 30, 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.batteryparkcity.org/Live/Parks-Public-Spaces/Teardrop-Park.php |title=Battery Park City Authority |access-date=September 26, 2012 |archive-date=September 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120926205257/http://www.batteryparkcity.org/Live/Parks-Public-Spaces/Teardrop-Park.php |url-status=live }}</ref> There is also a southern extension to this park.
* [[Washington Street Plaza]], a [[Pedestrian zone|pedestrian plaza]] on [[Washington Street (Manhattan)|Washington Street]] between Carlisle and Albany Streets, opened on May 23, 2013.<ref>{{cite news|work=Downtown Express|title=Washington Street to gain public plaza|url=http://www.downtownexpress.com/2012/11/14/washington-street-to-gain-public-plaza/|author=Aline Reynolds|date=November 14, 2012|access-date=June 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723040935/http://www.downtownexpress.com/2012/11/14/washington-street-to-gain-public-plaza/|archive-date=July 23, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In addition, there are:<ref>{{cite web| url = https://rentalpaca.com/rent-apartment/new-york-city-battery-park-city/| title = Parks & Recreation| access-date = September 12, 2020| archive-date = August 13, 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200813174855/https://rentalpaca.com/rent-apartment/new-york-city-battery-park-city/| url-status = live}}</ref>
*Community Ballfields, North End Avenue between Murray and Warren Streets
*The Esplanade, along the [[Hudson River]] from Stuyvesant High School to Battery Park
*Monsignor Kowsky Plaza, east of the Esplanade
*[[Nelson A. Rockefeller]] State Park, north end of Battery Park City west of River Terrace
*North Cove, on the river between Liberty Street and Vesey Street.
*Oval Lawn, east of the Esplanade<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=https://www.thebattery.org/history/ |title=History |website=The Battery |access-date=January 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702053429/https://www.thebattery.org/history/ |archive-date=July 2, 2019}}</ref>
*Rector Park, South End Avenue at Rector Place
*[[Robert F. Wagner, Jr.]] Park, north of Battery Park off Battery Place<ref name="ambitious" />
*South Cove, on the Esplanade, between First and Third Places
*West Thames Park, West Street between Albany and West Thames Streets
*World Financial Center Plaza, within Brookfield Place