Take away a pie and a plastic spoon for a sunset picnic at the waterfront Louis Valentino Jr Park, once home to Fort Defiance, which protected Manhattan from British ships in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

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Fort Defiance, a few blocks north, serves up fresh pasta, small plates like chicken liver pate with bacon-onion jam, and historically-inspired cocktails like the Colonial Cooler, a twist on the Pimm's Cup that was first mixed in British North Borneo in the 1920s.

BBC: A remote hook in New York��s harbour