The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island

Park · Manhattan

Manhattan's southern tip and three islands make up The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island, home to three national monuments.

  • 0.43 square miles
  • 77 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 28 bus routes

Castle Clinton, built as a fort just off Manhattan's tip between 1808 and 1811, later became Castle Garden, where more than 8 million immigrants entered from 1855 to 1890, and now houses the Statue of Liberty ticket office. The statue, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in 1886, and Ellis Island handled more than 12 million immigrants in its busiest years, 1892 to 1924. Governors Island, an Army post from 1794 to 1966, keeps Fort Jay and Castle Williams, both built between 1796 and 1811.

Sources: History & Culture - Castle Clinton National Monument (National Park Service); Statue of Liberty National Monument (National Park Service); Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument (National Park Service); History & Culture - Governors Island National Monument (National Park Service).

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The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island borders three areas, and Division Road holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 77.

Street map of The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island, Manhattan, outlined among Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Financial District-Battery Park City and Brooklyn Heights, with its paths, the streets around it and its two subway stations.Financial District-Battery Park CityCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red HookBrooklyn Heights
  • The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island
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  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Bowling Green lines 4 5 accessible
  • South Ferry lines 1 accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 28 routes stop in or at the edge of The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 4 local bus routes
  • 24 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B63
  • M15-SBS
  • M20
  • M55

Express bus routes

  • BM1
  • BM2
  • BM3
  • BM4
  • BxM18
  • QM7
  • QM8
  • QM11
  • QM25
  • QM65
  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM2
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4
  • SIM4C
  • SIM5
  • SIM15
  • SIM32
  • SIM33C
  • SIM34
  • SIM35
  • X27
  • X28

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 6 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 0.1 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 75 corners with a clean record

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
25 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
The Battery (19.8 acres) and Brooklyn Bridge Park (5.2 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Castle Clinton; and the Interborough Rapid Transit System, Battery Park Control House
Historic districts
Ellis Island and Governors Island, wholly or partly within The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island

Streets and trees

Trees
461 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and willow oak
Street with the most corners
Division Road, with 15 of the area's 77
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at Craig Road North & Discovery Hill Path to 20 feet at Andes Road & Ferry Line Road

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, three bike-share stations stand in The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island. The City's public art inventory lists ten works in the area, among them John Ericsson Memorial (1903), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1909) and Battery Park Cannon (1914).

  • 3 bike-share stations
  • 10 works of public art

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.