My son, P-Diddy, a most excellent traveling companion.This was taken close to Battery Park, on the southeastern tip of Manhattan Island. It's the site of the remarkable Castle Clinton which has been in turn, since 1812, a fort, a concert hall, an aquarium, a receiving area for arriving immigrants (later supplanted by Ellis Island), and after nearly succumbing to a wrecking ball during the "urban renewal" craze of the 1950s, restored to its appearance as a fort designed to fend off the British during the War of 1812. People wishing to visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, clearly visible from Castle Clinton, embark from there.
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