Memoir World on Instagram: "From the late 1960s through the 1980s, Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan sat in limbo—an empty stretch of landfill meant for a massive redevelopment that never took off. What was supposed to be a sleek, new urban neighborhood ended up as a strange kind of no-man’s-land, and for a while, it turned into something else entirely: a fake beach. With leftover sand and open space, locals used it like a beachfront escape right in the middle of the city. Kids played, sunbat