{"id":388,"date":"2013-11-11T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=388"},"modified":"2013-11-11T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:44:54","slug":"explore-nyc-1-battery-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2013\/11\/11\/explore-nyc-1-battery-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore NYC #1 &#8211; Battery Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wonder of New York City is endless. \u00a0Even if you&#8217;re a local, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ve seen it all. \u00a0I&#8217;m starting a new series of posts where I talk about places that I found interesting outside of 27th and 7th. \u00a0So for this post, I&#8217;m telling you all about Battery Park. \u00a0Battery Park is located at the southern tip of Manhattan. \u00a0At Battery Park you can walk around, enjoy the &#8220;nature&#8221; of New York, do some fantastic people watching, and view the Statue of Liberty in the very distance. \u00a0I went down there to take pictures for my Intro to Digital Photography assignment, but it was so incredibly beautiful and breathtaking. \u00a0It has become my new favorite spot in NYC. \u00a0So get out your MetroCard, get on one of the first 5 cars of the 1 Train and get off at South Ferry&#8230;it&#8217;s sure to be a treat. (All photos are my own)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Ferry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"389\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2013\/11\/11\/explore-nyc-1-battery-park\/naftaly_week2_photo_1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1381,850\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1383628260&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ferry by Ashley Naftaly\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Ferry in the Sunset at Battery Park, taken by Ashley Naftaly.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_1-1024x630.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-389\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry in the Sunset at Battery Park\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_1-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_1-624x384.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_1.jpg 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/StatueofLiberty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"393\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2013\/11\/11\/explore-nyc-1-battery-park\/naftaly_week4_photo_3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week4_Photo_3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1383628195&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Statue of Liberty by Ashley Naftaly\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Statue of Liberty in the sunset. Taken from Battery Park. By Ashley Naftaly&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week4_Photo_3-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-393\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week4_Photo_3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Statue of Liberty in the sunset. Taken from Battery Park\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week4_Photo_3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week4_Photo_3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week4_Photo_3-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week4_Photo_3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Silhouette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2013\/11\/11\/explore-nyc-1-battery-park\/naftaly_week2_photo_3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1100,733\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1383628054&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Silhouette by Ashley Naftaly\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Man silhouetted with child looking out at the Statue of Liberty. By Ashley Naftaly&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_3-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-391\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Man silhouetted with child looking out at the Statue of Liberty\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_3-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/files\/2013\/11\/Naftaly_Week2_Photo_3.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>xx,<br \/>\nAshley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonder of New York City is endless. \u00a0Even if you&#8217;re a local, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ve seen it all. \u00a0I&#8217;m starting a new series of posts where I talk about places that I found interesting outside of 27th and 7th. \u00a0So for this post, I&#8217;m telling you all about Battery Park. \u00a0Battery Park is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2013\/11\/11\/explore-nyc-1-battery-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Explore NYC #1 &#8211; Battery Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31188,31484],"tags":[41202,31554,31553,31180,145,31555],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashley","category-off-campus","tag-ashley","tag-battery-park","tag-explore-nyc","tag-exploring","tag-nyc","tag-statue-of-liberty","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-6g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}