Underneath The Park
Battery Park, due to its key location, has played an important role in the construction of transportation infrastructure. Under the park lies the following active infrastructure:
- Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, carrying vehicular traffic to Brooklyn
- Battery Park Underpass, carrying vehicular traffic from West Street to the FDR Drive
- IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line and IRT Lexington Avenue Line with a balloon loop to enable trains to turn around and switch between the two IRT lines
- South Ferry subway complex (1 N R trains)
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Famous quotes containing the word park:
“Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!”
—Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 9–12)