Fourteen parks and plazas make up most of the 32 acres of Battery Park City, which extends through the southern tip of Manhattan to the Battery, and Historic Battery Park, whose "crowds of water-gazers" are referenced on the first page of Moby Dick. These days, visitors walk along the Esplanade"a path that winds through the park'>oe s holistically sustained lawns and gardens"taking in the gorgeous harbor view of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and often detouring through the quays and graceful bridge of South Cove.