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Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving Anglo-Saxon geographical accounts as Badrices īeg, 'Badric's Island' and later Old English: Patrisey.As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains the lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams.
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.It is bounded by Battery Place on the north, with Bowling Green to the northeast, State Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
New York, New York: United States Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House: East St. Louis, Illinois: United States Letchworth Settlement: Nevells Road, Garden City, Herts. United Kingdom [31] Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center: New York, New York: United States [32] Lutheran Settlement House: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: United States [33 ...
Hepworth's sculpture in the pool in front of the 39-story United Nations Secretariat Building in New York Single Form (Memorial) in Battersea Park. Single Form (BH 325) is a monumental bronze sculpture by the British artist Barbara Hepworth.
A New York Times article from 2002 cited the building's area as 140,000 square feet (13,000 m 2). [35] According to a document published by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) in 2011, the Battery Maritime Building contained 107,430 square feet (9,981 m 2). [25]
This list of museums on Long Island is a list of museums in Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York. (Museums in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, which are also physically located on Long Island, are found in List of museums in New York City). Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Genesee County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the ...