[DOC] [TLE] Battery Park - Wikipedia [PAR] Battery Park is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the Battery, the southern 
tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The area and 
park are named for the artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's 
early years to protect the settlement behind ... The southern shoreline of 
Manhattan Island had long been known as "The... [DOC] [TLE] The Oldest Parks : Online Historic Tour : NYC Parks [PAR] The Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan, was an open area reserved for the 
batteries of cannon that later gave Battery Park its name. ... "Flats" in the 17th 
century, that was used for executions and the burial of paupers and slaves. ... 
Bowling Green Park, the first official park in New York, was established and 
named by a... [DOC] [TLE] Earliest Parks : NYC Parks [PAR] The earliest parks date to the Dutch and Colonial era, and parks before 1856 ... 
When the Dutch and later the English settled at the southern tip of Manhattan in 
the ... as an open area for the batteries of cannon that gave the park its name. ... 
used the site for military installations to defend the island in New York's early 
years. [DOC] [TLE] STATE HISTORICAL MARKERS IN NEW YORK CITY: Part 3 ... [PAR] Mar 24, 2013 ... I gave those signs their own page a few years ago, though I didn't catch them all. 
... British Lines. Erected in 1776, to defend Manhattan Island, with blockhouses 
and batteries ... site once again became a tavern and renamed once again for 
McGown. ... Bryant Park, too, used to claim a NYS historical marker:. [DOC] [TLE] The Archaeology of Colonial New York's Battery Wall | MCNY Blog ... [PAR] Dec 29, 2015 ... The Museum of the City of New York is currently digitizing an extensive ... The 
Battery Wall once fortified the southwestern end of Manhattan ... tell us about the 
kinds of objects colonial New Yorkers used, traded, ... Cannon Ball - Battery Wall 
... the sheepshead, the fish that gave Sheepshead Bay its name. [DOC] [TLE] How Hurricane Sandy flooded New York back to its 17th ... - Daily Mail [PAR] Jun 15, 2013 ... Vulnerable: New York City has 400,000 people and 68,000 building inside the 
flood plain ... years of Manhattan's coastline augmentation, narrowing it down to 
its historic shape - with Pearl Street and Greenwich Street once ... a $20million 
plan to protect New York from storms like Sandy and the effects of... [DOC] [TLE] The Battle of Brooklyn, August 27-29, 1776 - Old Stone House [PAR] Brooklyn's streets and parks and underneath its houses. The implications of that 
... Water Taxi and Ferry: New York Water Taxi www.nywatertaxi. com provides... [DOC] [TLE] governors island historic district - NYC.gov [PAR] Jun 18, 1996 ... Manhattan Tax Map Block 1, Lot 10 and a line extending northwesterly ... 
importance, and as the city grew to prominence, its defense became... [DOC] [TLE] view the online exhibit - The Center for Land Use Interpretation [PAR] The site of the battery is now Battery Park, the primary place for people in New 
York City to experience the waterfront. The points of departure for ferries to the... [DOC] [TLE] GOVERNORS ISLAND HISTORICAL SUMMARY - National Park ... [PAR] through to reestablish its outlet, and rising sea levels filled New York harbor and 
formed ... following year they moved across to Manhattan with their cattle and 
began ... The name Governors Island thus came into use, but the former names 
.... might be British cannonballs and shell fragments buried in its soil. Coastal 
Defense. [DOC] [TLE] Is Using the Public Trust Doctrine To Protect Public Parkland from ... [PAR] tower over Palisades Interstate Park's tree line.2 Congress designated the Park a 
... common law doctrine of public trust to protect scenic views of trust resources ... 
quarrying and to preserve the view from the New York shoreline.18 The Park is 
...... name courts give to their concerns about the insufficiencies of the democratic. [DOC] [TLE] Wartime New York Archives - The Bowery Boys: New York

Question: A line of cannon once used to defend Manhattan's shoreline gave this New York park its name
Answer: Battery Park