My Uncle Pete says Manhattan is prepared for power cuts because it has a battery. It's true because I've looked in my atlas. Should London get one?
2006-10-05 11:41:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
I think your Uncle Pete is winding you up, or are you winding us up? A Battery is an old term for a Military fortification, such as a castle or a fort.
Anyway you'd need a battery the size of New York to light-up the place.
2006-10-05 11:51:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think 'the' Battery is an area of New York.
Battery Park (to New Yorkers, The Battery) is a 21-acre (8.5 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. The park is named for the artillery that was stationed there at various times by the Dutch and British in order to protect the harbor. At one end of the park is Pier A and Hope Garden, a memorial to AIDS victims. At the other end is Battery Gardens restaurant, next to the United States Coast Guard Battery Building. Along the waterfront, ferries depart for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
To the northwest of the park lies Battery Park City, an area of landfill redevelopment built in the 1970s and 80s, which includes Robert F. Wagner Park and the Battery Park City Promenade. Together with Hudson River Park a system of greenspaces, bikeways and prominades now extend up the Hudson shoreline. A bikeway is being built through the park that will connect to the Hudson River Park bikeway, north of the park across Battery Place that runs past Battery Park City and the World Fincial Center and up the West Side. Across State Street to the northeast lies the U.S. Customs House/Museum of the American Indian. Peter Minuit Plaza abuts the southeast end of the park, directly in front of the South Ferry Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry.
2006-10-05 11:44:23 · answer #2 · answered by tr1gger123 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Bont11. It's the other way round. The States copy things from the UK. All the time.
Anyway, I live in London, and I've not had a power outage for many many years. Should we have a 'battery' to back us up? No, not really...
2006-10-05 11:50:02 · answer #3 · answered by Mike 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your Uncle Pete sounds a hoot!
The "Battery" is an area of NY as is the "Bronx"
2006-10-05 11:48:53 · answer #4 · answered by franja 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't be an imbecile, not 'that' kind of battery. Anyway doesn't the UK copy enough already from the States?
2006-10-05 11:46:32 · answer #5 · answered by Bont11 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
New York is a lot bigger then London and has a lot more power outages.
2006-10-05 11:43:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yea, is it a fecking great Duracell? I think you're confused. Hens live in a battery, but it also isn't that kind.
2006-10-05 11:50:34 · answer #7 · answered by letem haveit 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
maybe for the Olympics in case too many foreigners use electricity
2006-10-05 11:54:32 · answer #8 · answered by hra_100 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think so. In fact, I have 4 AAA batteriesI could lend London. I'm so charitable, me.
2006-10-05 11:48:51 · answer #9 · answered by SeveralTimesWrong 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Im sure London can and We can call it......ahmm.... 'Camden'.
Don't tell Ken Livingston though coz that another tax opportunity for him
2006-10-05 11:49:58 · answer #10 · answered by Legend 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋