FAQ

The Battery is the historic 25-acre park at the southern tip of Manhattan, home to SeaGlass Carousel, The Battery Oval lawn, 135,000 square feet of perennial gardens, Castle Clinton National Monument, and so much more.

The park is located at the southern tip of Manhattan, across from Bowling Green and adjacent to Whitehall Ferry Terminal, serving the Staten Island Ferry.

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SeaGlass Carousel is a carousel like no other. Inspired by the original New York Aquarium once located in the park, visitors ride within huge fish figures that circle, oscillate, and move up and down, giving the illusion of swimming in the ocean.

SEAGLASS HOURS

Hours change seasonally and may be affected by weather. Please visit seaglasscarousel.nyc for seasonal hours and our Facebook page for weather updates.

Tickets are $5. 10 tickets are available for the price of  ($45).

Yes, find out more about our party packages here.

Dating back to the turn of the 19th century, the building once known as Castle Garden, and now known as Castle Clinton National Monument, lived many lives as a military fort, opera house, aquarium, and Immigration depot operated by New York State. From 1855 to 1890, Castle Garden welcomed waves of immigrants including Nikola Tesla, Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman, Joseph Pulitzer, and Mary Mallon (later known as “Typhoid Mary”).

CastleGarden.org is an educational project of The Battery Conservancy. This free website offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants who arrived from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. More than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period. CastleGarden.org is an invaluable resource for educators, scholars, students, family historians, and the interested public.

We donated all of our physical archives to the National Archives in Washington, DC. You can visit Castle Clinton National Monument to retrace the steps of your ancestors.

It is possible your relative’s name was spelled differently in the records. Try using a wildcard * for part of the name. For example, Browne could have been spelled Brown, so try searching “Brown*.”

Visit Battery Urban Farm’s page on Explorable Places.

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32 students per trip.

To film at The Battery, you need to fill out a permit request with the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation. Please do not click on “Battery Park City” if you would like to film at The Battery.

Please contact info@thebattery.org and fill out a City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation film permit request.

To hold an event at The Battery, you need to fill out a permit request with the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation.

If your event is a gathering of fewer than 20 people (a birthday, a family picnic), you do not need to fill out a permit request.

Learn more about birthdays at the carousel here

Statue Cruises offers ferry service  every day of the year, except December 25th. Hours vary with the seasons. Please see the Statue Cruises schedule for more information.

You can purchase tickets online or in the park at Castle Clinton National Monument.

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