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suchow on Oct 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?

FYI, Battery Park City is part of Manhattan and was designed in the 1960s to 1980s, with the land created during excavation for the World Trade Center.

CydeWeys on Oct 6, 2019 [–]

To be fair, BPC, at 92 acres, is 0.4% of the total land area of Manhattan. It's a rounding error.

There's been a lot more reclaimed land than that added to Manhattan since 1811, but they mostly slotted into the pre-existing established grid system.

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