Battery Gardens (The View at Battery Park)

10 Battery Park | The Battery | built 1951

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1911

    July

    An earlier building on this site: the 1882 Barge Office is torn down and replaced

    Demolition of the granite Barge Office at the Battery began in July 1911. Its replacement was designed by James Knox Taylor and apparently drew on the Palazzo del Consiglio, a Verona building of 1476. That newer building survived until about 1942, and Forgotten New York places Battery Gardens and the Coast Guard office on the site today.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1998

    American Park opens as an upscale restaurant on the Battery's waterfront

    American Park opened in 1998 as an upscale waterfront restaurant on city-owned land at the Battery. After the September 11, 2001 attacks it fell behind on its revenue-sharing payments to the city. By December 2003 its parent companies owed about $1.36 million, the Parks Department moved to evict it, and restaurant officials appeared before a bankruptcy judge in January 2004.

    Source: amny.com

  3. 2004

    Battery Gardens is set to open in the former American Park space

    In April 2004 a new restaurant, Battery Gardens, was preparing to open on April 26 in place of American Park. Its partners included George Makkos, who ran his family's M & T Pretzel stands in Battery Park, and Paul Nicaj, a former manager of the Pierre Hotel. Executive chef Tommy Lee planned an American menu with an Asian influence on land the city owns.

    Source: amny.com

  4. 2007

    March

    A synagogue marks its 150th anniversary with a gala dinner at Battery Gardens

    Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El, a Murray Hill synagogue, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007 with a year of events, including a lecture series on the history of Jews in New York. For the gala dinner in March the congregation chose the Battery Gardens restaurant in Battery Park.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2008

    July 19

    Office writer and actor Paul Lieberstein marries at Battery Gardens

    Paul Lieberstein, the actor and writer who played Toby Flenderson on the NBC sitcom The Office and ran the show from its fifth through eighth seasons, was married at Battery Gardens on July 19, 2008. His bride was Janine Serafin Poreba.

    “Lieberstein married Janine Serafin Poreba on July 19, 2008, at the New York City restaurant Battery Gardens.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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