Battery Park and the Statue of Liberty in the distance (1902)
After passing examinations at the receiving station on Ellis Island, Vanzetti set foot on America's mainland for the first time in Battery Park, at the tip of Lower Manhattan. It was the same spot where the Dutch settlers landed in 1623 and founded New Amsterdam and the countless immigrants had begun their American journeys.
1910 New York City Census Statistics1
Population: 4,766,883
40.4% Foreign Born
Native Born Italians: 340,770
Battery Park and Manhattan skyline (1905)
"How well I remember standing at the Battery, in lower New York, upon my arrival, alone, with a few poor belongings in the way of clothes, and very little money. Until yesterday I was among folks who understood me. This morning I seemed to have awakened in a land where my language meant little more to the native (so far as meaning is concerned) than the pitiful noises of a dumb animal." ~Bartolomeo Vanzetti
(a) Battery Park - State Street (circa 1915)
(b) Battery Park from Whitehall Building (circa 1911)
1Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, (Washington Government Printing Office, 1913).
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