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Land reclamation in Lower Manhattan

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West Washington Street Market, which remained a landfill. The market ultimately closed and the dock was converted to a sanitation facility that was used to load garbage barges headed for the Fresh Kills Landfill. The only section of 13th Avenue that remained was behind the sanitation facility. In 2016, the city began demolishing the Department of Sanitation building as part of a plan for the creation of a new public park on the land.
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The proposal detailed creating 1,760 acres of reclaimed land, named New Mannahatta, at the tip of Manhattan to provide housing and combat climate change. The plan, named after the indigenous term for Manhattan, would extend the island into New York Harbor beyond the Statue of Liberty. In his New York
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West Washington Market was created in 1887. New York City solved the problem in an unusual way by actually taking away a block of land that was the 1837 landfill that extended Manhattan to 13th Avenue. The controversial decision included condemning many businesses. The city was unable to condemn the
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In 1613...the present location of Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan is the historic shoreline of the east side of the island...By the late 1600's the City began a process of landfill to extend the island into the East River. By 1730, the eastern edge of Lower Manhattan reached Water Street and by 1780
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as examples of the urgent need for action. Historically, Manhattan has expanded through land reclamation, making this proposal a continuation of past practices. Financially, Barr suggests the high real estate values in New York could make the project feasible, using the difference between building
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on environmental grounds. Barr, however, replied to critics in another editorial in 2023 Barr stated that to reject the Manhattan extension on environmental grounds, because we cannot touch the harbor ignores the reality that New York is already engaging in extensive sea-based construction. Barr
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gave the example of the US$ 52 billion sea walls and ongoing port dredging. Barr also emphasized that the plan could recreate lost wetlands and increase biodiversity by planting native trees and flowers. Barr's project has subsequently received plenty of support and attention from social media.
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starting from 1855, using earth from street-widening projects in Lower Manhattan which united Castle Garden's island with the "mainland" of Manhattan. The original shoreline is roughly the modern-day park's eastern boundary at State Street.
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floor. It is estimated that by the 1970s, 1400 to 2225 acres of the entire Manhattan landmass, has been created by reclamation. Another estimate is that 3,000 acres, or 29% of the entire land area, had been created by reclamation.
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costs and housing sales to fund the development. He argues that if the city invests billions in flood walls, it should also consider creating more housing. Previous efforts, such as those by former mayor
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In 2021, the City of New York introduced the Financial District-Seaport (FidiSeaport) Resilience Plan for a 0.9-mile (1.4 km) stretch of what is seen as the most complicated and vulnerable
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In 1683, the British built platforms of dirt off the island's southern tip for military defense, and again in 1735 as the Copsey Battery. The remains of
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Farberov, Snejana (June 16, 2013). "How Hurricane Sandy flooded New York back to its 17th century shape as it inundated 400 years of reclaimed land".
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Barr emphasizes the need for large-scale initiatives to tackle New York’s storm surge, flooding, and housing affordability issues, citing
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Map of the city of New York and island of Manhattan, as laid out by the commissioners appointed by the legislature, April 3d, 1807
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just off shore. Construction began in 1808 and the fort was completed in 1811, though modifications continued through the 1820s.
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voted to approve the controversial $ 1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project, involving the park's complete
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the island extended to Front Street. South Street was the next and last extension of the infill in 1800
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A century after Thomson's initial idea, a 2011 proposal by Vishaan Chakrabarti, a professor at
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Archaeology Magazine – The Hidden History of New York's Harbor – Archaeology Magazine Archive
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Topographical map of the City of New York : showing original water courses and made land
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Canadian-American engineer T. Kennard Thomson first made an expansive proposal for "A Really
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In the 1960s–1970s, landfill was used in the creation of 92 acres (37 ha) that comprise
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Artillerists and Engineers: The Beginnings of American Seacoast Fortifications, 1794-1815
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Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
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Charter of 1731. By the 19th century 137 acres (55 ha) of land had been created by
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programs, which involve fortifying and extending the shoreline, are being implemented.
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proposed a "Seaport City" similar to Battery Park City for the area around the
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proposed creating upwards of 500 feet (150 m) of land reclamation from
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The Battery (1820s–1850s) and Battery Park City (1970s) extended into the
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and extend 90 feet (27 m) to 200 feet (61 m) into the river.
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has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the
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Cantwell, Anne-Marie E.; Wall, Diana diZerega (October 1, 2003).
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of shoreline in Lower Manhattan. Construction would incorporate
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Additional fill came from other construction projects such as
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T. Kennard Thomson's proposal, "A Really Greater New York",
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Gansevoort Peninsula, located in what is now known as the
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Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
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built 1808–1811 in the river, connected by a bridge and
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New Mannahatta Project Proposed By Jason Barr in 2022
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Map of the city of New York and island of Manhattan
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Index

Lower Manhattan expansion

Lower Manhattan
14th Street
Lower Manhattan
land reclamation
Hudson
East
Upper New York Bay
landfill
acreage
Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899
navigable waterways
United States Army Corps of Engineers
East Side
Pearl
Cherry
West Side
Greenwich Street
New Amsterdam
Dongan Charter
Montgomerie
landfill
oyster beds
estuary
Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Ida
climate change adaptation
effects to Manhattan Island
resilience

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