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Battery Park City
Battery Park: Faux apple
Battery Park City, according to author and New York City resident Phillip Lopate, is internationally celebrated as a success, as "a model of waterfront development (Lopate 29). However, it has also been called "a broken promise" (Rogers 2005). "The broken promise to use excess Battery Park City revenues for affordable housing was made in 1989 and has been a bone of contention ever since" (Rogers 2012). Initially, the design of the area was supposed to encompass a residential, business, and industrial complex, but this was scrapped during New York City's fiscal crisis of the 1970s. The new, more aesthetically ambitious design is intended to be an 'anti-urban' creation of beauty that eschews conventional cliches of how to design city buildings (Lopate 30).
The exterior of the final product was striking in its recreation of a prewar New York City ambiance. But what was a delight to the eye, despite the luxury price tag, was not always delightful in terms of the harmony it...
The apartments have been described as rather cramped and typical of modern New York City apartments, and the location forced residents to walk many blocks to obtain basic necessities (Lopate 33-34).
Battery Park is likened by Lopate to "a stage set" with little street life and vibrancy Lopate 33). There are some impressive parks, such as the Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, which has a children's playground, and South Cove, which sports a Japanese rock garden. However, these features are not enough to truly create a community, and merely seem to impress outsiders rather than satisfy the needs of residents. The nearby World Financial Center resembles an "office Park in Houston" because of its lack of character (Lopate 37). The fact that so many of the people that work in the World Financial Center are commuters, rather than part of the local community, adds to the sterile, out-of-touch and out-of-time feel of the environment.
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Works Cited
Lopate, Phillip. Waterfront. New York: Anchor, 2005.
Rogers, Josh. "Renewing the Battery Park City Promise." The Villager, 17. 48 (2005).
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