Battery Park City is a mainly residential
planned community at the southwestern tip of the island of
Manhattan in
New York City,
New York,
United States, more than of which is parkland. The land in
Lower Manhattan upon which it stands was created by
land reclamation on the
Hudson River using over 3 million cubic yards of soil and rock excavated during the construction of the
World Trade Center, the
New York City Water Tunnel, and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from
New York Harbor off
Staten Island. The neighborhood, which is the site of
Brookfield Place (formerly the World Financial Center), along with numerous buildings designed for housing, commercial, and retail, is named for adjacent
Battery Park.