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78  NE W Y ORK CIT Y & THE MID-A TLANTIC REGION

when the World Trade River. Part of New York’s original
Center collapsed in 2001. dockyards have been preserved
Dating from 1766, the here since 1966, and today house
chapel is a Georgian gem, shops and restaurants. Since
but the main highlight is a Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the
poignant exhibition on site has been under going a
September 11, entitled multi-year redevelop ment
Unwavering Spirit: Hope & program. Plans include the open-
Healing at Ground Zero. ing of iPic Theaters in the Fulton
Market building and a shopping
mall on Pier 17.
8 South Street South Street Seaport
The elegant Georgian interior hall at Seaport Museum has a vast collection
St. Paul’s Chapel of maritime art and artifacts, as
Map C5. 19 Fulton St. Tel (212) well as Federal-style warehouses
7 St. Paul’s Chapel 732-8257. q Fulton St. dating back to 1812. The
Open 10am–9pm Mon–Sat, museum also owns six historic
Map C5. 209–211 Broadway. Tel (212) 11am–9pm Sun. ∑ south
602-0800. q Fulton St. Open 10am– streetseaport.com South Street ships docked on nearby Pier 16.
6pm Mon–Sat, 7am–6pm Sun. Seaport Museum: 12 Fulton St. Those open to visitors include
Tel (212) 748-8600. Open Apr–Oct: the Ambrose, a 1908 lightship,
Miraculously untouched when 11am–5pm Wed–Sun. ∑ south and Peking, a large German
the World Trade Center towers streetseaportmuseum.org merchant ship that later served
collap sed in 2001, St. Paul’s is as a British training boat in the
Manhattan’s only extant church This district of cobbled streets 1930s. The museum also owns
built before the Revolutionary War offers spectacular views of the schooner Pioneer, which
and was miraculously untouched Brooklyn Bridge and the East cruises the harbor in summer.

9 Brooklyn Bridge spanning the East River while (known as “the bends”) after
ice-bound on a ferry to coming up from the under-
Map C5. q J, Z to Chambers St; Brooklyn. The bridge took water excavation chambers.
4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall 16 years to build, required From the pedestrian walkway
(Manhattan side); A, C to High St, 600 workers, and claimed over there are fabulous views of the
Brooklyn Bridge (Brooklyn side). 20 lives, including Roebling’s. city towers, seen through the
@ M9, M15, M22, M103. 7 Most died of caisson disease artistic cablework.
An engineering wonder when
it was built in 1883, the Brooklyn
Bridge linked Manhattan and
Brooklyn, then two separate
cities. At that time it was the
world’s largest suspension bridge
and the first to be constructed
of steel. The German-born
engineer John A. Roebling
conceived of a bridge Brooklyn Bridge, the first ever steel suspension bridge
Diagonal stays Four main cables have 19 strands,
each made of 278 steel wires, which
were laid parallel.
Steel floor beams weigh
4 tons each.

Saddle plates
anchor the cables Suspender wires
at the top of each Steel cable wires each
of the two towers. containing 3,515 miles
Caissons, each the size of four tennis (5,657 km) of wire,
courts, provided a dry galvanized with zinc for
area for underwater excavation. protection from the wind,
As work went on, they sank rain, and snow.
deeper beneath the river.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp122–4 and pp125–7

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