The Battery Park City material, with the exception of the Agreement of Lease and copies of the 1973 West Side Highway report, was arranged in labeled file folders. Labels read: N-520 Battery Park City and include a topical subject term. These subject terms are transcribed below at the folder level. In the few instances where these terms have not been used, a note is included giving the wording of the original label. Dates have been added.
Additional photographs and project records can be found in Series II and Series III.
Box 23 Folder 5 Battery Park City Authority, 1972-1976, 1978
Correspondence, arranged chronologically, primarily to and from Battery Park City Authority staff. Majority of the letters are from William A. Halsey, Director of Architecture. Correspondents include Harrison & Abramovitz staff and the architects Jack Brown and Irving Gershon. File also contains 1978 Abramovitz-Harris-Kingsland Proposal for Professional Services in Connection with the Design of a Vertical Circulation Building at Battery Park City.
Box 23 Folder 6 Farkas, Barron & Partners, 1974-1975
File consists chiefly of correspondence between Harrison & Abramovitz and the engineering firm, Farkas, Barron & Partners. Includes a 1974 letter of transmittal from Farkas, Barron to Harrison & Abramovitz, originally kept separately in a folder labeled: Farkas, Barron - Transmittals, 1974.
Box 23 Folder 7 Agreement of Lease, 1969 Nov. 24
Agreement of Lease between the City of New York as Lessor and Battery Park City Authority as Lessee, Dated Nov. 24, 1969.Includes 2 pages of handwritten notes dated 11/24/69 and 1/16/74.
Box 23 Folder 8 West Side Highway Project, 1973 Sept.
Letter of understanding between Battery Park City Authority and West Side Highway Project. Includes drawing of Exhibit 1, "Deferred construction area." Original folder labeled: Letter of Understanding.
Box 23 Folder 9 City Planning Commission, 1973, 1975
Commission calendar of Dec. 12, 1973 and June 4, 1975 supplemental calendar. Oct. 1, 1973 memorandum from the Office of Lower Manhattan Development to the City Planning Commission regarding amendments to the Battery Park City Master Development Plan. Internal Harrison & Abramovitz memorandum on the Oct. 1, 1973 City Planning Commission briefing.
Box 23 Folder 10 Department of Buildings, 1973-1974
Correspondence between the Battery Park City Authority and New York City's Department of Buildings regarding zoning and filing of paving plan applications. Departmental memorandum and application for limited supervisory check of plans.
Box 23 Folder 11 Fire Department - New York City, 1974 June - 1975 Jan.
Correspondence between Fire Department officials and Battery Park City Authority staff.
Box 23 Folder 12 to 13 Minutes of Meetings, 1975 Jan. - 1975 Oct.
Minutes of twenty-five meetings. Meeting participants include architects, Battery Park City Authority staff and consultants.
Box 23 Folder 14 Battery Park City Proposal, [1966?]
Undated (possibly 1966) typescript proposal, Battery Park City: New Living Space for New York City, a Proposal for Creating a Site for Residential and Business Facilities in Lower Manhattan. Includes A Message from Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. One page handwritten commentary on the project's importance attached. Originally in file labeled: Publicity - Newspaper Clippings.
Box 23 Folder 15 to 16 Master Plan & Costs, 1966, 1968-1969, undated
Draft of the Master Plan Documents to be Attatched to Lease : Battery Park City, dated Jan. 28, 1969. Also, a draft of Transportation Elements of Battery Park City Development (undated, stamped: Received Jan. 24, 1969, Harrison & Abramovitz). Minutes of 1968 meeting of the Battery Park City Architects to review the master plan. Architects' 1968 report and memorandum on a proposal for containership terminal in Battery Park City. 1966 outline specifications for office building at 111 Wall Street. File also contains, correspondence, memoranda, and promotional brochure. Original folder labeled: Master Plan & Costs.
Box 24 Folder 1 Criteria for Development of Battery Park City, 1972, 1974-1975
1972 conference paper by Walther Prokosch, Criteria for the Development of Battery Park City. File also contains correspondence and report to the City Planning Commission regarding energy supply for the first phase of Battery Park City.
Box 24 Folder 2 to 3 West Side Highway, 1973 March 30
Alternative West Side Highway Reconstruction Alignments at Battery Park City, New York, New York : Evaluations and Recommendations, Prepared by Harrison & Abramovitz, architects; Tams Gibbs and Hill, architects and engineers; Mueser Rutledge Wentworth and Johnston, consulting engineers. (2 copies, one is Abramovitz's file copy.)
Box 24 Folder 4 Fisher-Lefrak Traffic Study, 1973
June Battery Park City Traffic Study of Neighborhoods I and II for Fisher-Lefrak, by T.T. Wiley and E. J. Sharsley.
Box 24 Folder 5 Battery Park City Annual Reports, 1973-1975
Report for 1973 originally in folder labeled:Publicity - Press Release. 1974 and 1975 reports from folder originally labeled: Publicity and Public Relations.
Box 24 Folder 6 Energy Report, undated
Evaluation and comparison of systems and costs.
Box 24 Folder 7 Publicity and Public Relations, 1972-1977
Fact sheets, clippings Battery Park City Authority promotional booklet, and press releases. File also includes 1974 letters authored by Avrum Hyman, BPCA Director of Public Information, and others in response to critical press coverage. Correspondence, dated 1974, between the BPCA and the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, regarding design development updates. Documents from a 1976 letter writing campaign in support of the West Side Highway Project, Westway. Abramovitz correspondence, 1975-1976, with a graduate student and a researcher. Annual Reports for the years 1974-1975 were removed from this file and are listed in the Reports and Papers subseries. File was in folder labeled: N-520 B.P.C. from Mr. A's File 4/27/78.
Box 24 Folder 8 Publicity - Magazine Clippings, 1966-1969, 1971, 1973
Box 24 Folder 9 Publicity -Newspaper Clippings, 1966-1967, 1972, 1974, 1977
Clippings, primarily newspaper, about Battery Park City and US housing policy. Also, articles by and about David Rockefeller with biographical sketches. Some material not dated. Proposal, Battery Park City: New Living Space for New York City, has been removed from file and is now listed in the Reports and Papers subseries.
Box 24 Folder 10 Newspaper Clippings, 1966-1967, 1971, 1974, 1979
Clippings, primarily newspaper. File also includes 1971 Japanese magazine article on US Steel building, press release on the selection of Harrison & Abramovitz for Battery Park City project, and undated correspondence with Archetype Films about filming the Battery Park City model. Original folder labeled: Publicity - Press Release.
Box 24 Folder 11 Abramovitz's File, 1972-1977
File contains correspondence, minutes, memoranda, notes, and lists. Includes an outline of the responsibilities of Harrison & Abramovitz, Lefrak-Fisher architects and Battery Park City staff. Handwritten notes on folder, chiefly of telephone numbers. File originally labeled: N-520 B.P.C. from Mr. A's File 4/27/78. Included withPublicity and Public Relations file in a larger file also labeled: N-520 B.P.C. from Mr. A's File 4/27/78.
Box 24 Folder 12 Log Book, 1974-1975
List of working drawings sent out by Harrison and Abramovitz.
Box 24 Folder 13 Contracts, 1973-1974, 1976
Five letters regarding contracts number BPCA 73-28 and BPCA 72-23. Contracts are not enclosed.
Box 24 Folder 14 Cost Fee Estimate, 1976 Oct.
Battery Park City Authority letter to and additions to minutes of meeting with Blauvert Engineering. Original file folder labeled: Cost Fee Estimate, M. of M. 10-19-76.
Box 24 Folder 15 Express Bus Distribution, undated
Map illustrating am peak hour express bus distributions.