The Real NYC #27 - The Battery
Battery Park is a fun place to visit, and has a special place in my heart. Growing up in NYC I was taken on the trip that almost every child of my generation went on – across the Harbor on the Staten Island Ferry. It was an easy way to get out of school on a trip and a free way to see the Statue of Liberty. And the trip came with time in the park to play and run around. The Battery also a place that I used as a teacher to demonstrate the effect of salt water and weather on bronze and granite statues when I taught chemistry. My students were fascinated by the difference in how bronze statues were affected by weather in different places. Statues in the center of Manhattan would turn black, while ones in The Battery were green. This opened up a whole series of lessons on the chemistry of metals. By Alfred Fredericks (Popular Science Monthly Volume 75/Brittanica) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Most people know Battery Park as the place they g...