Gansevoort Peninsula

Gansevoort Peninsula occupies a unique position in Manhattan as a five and a half acre stretch of land built on solid fill rather than on a pier. This site marks the location of a former sanitation facility, but its history stretches back much further to a colonial era footpath used by the Lenape people. In the nineteenth century, the city constructed a fort here to guard against British naval threats, and later, the land became the southern terminus for the short-lived Thirteenth Avenue. Today, a single block of that lost avenue is preserved within the park's design as a nod to the city's ever-changing shoreline.