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Battery Park
On your way to nearby Battery
Park, check out Pier A Harbor
House 7, the wonderfully
renovated 1886 grand marine
firehouse. Important visitors who
arrived by sea were once greeted
with festive jets of water pumped
into the sky by the fireboats.
The clock on the pier tower
used to keep time to the mari-
time system – eight bells, and
all’s well. Continue along the
waterfront, looking out for the e Enjoying a well-earned rest at a café, South Street Seaport
American Merchant Mariners
Memorial 8, a haunting 1812. It later became an opera piers. Look west up the famed
sculpture of soldiers pulling a house, theater, and aquarium, Wall Street w (see pp68–9) as
desperate comrade out of the but is now the ticket office for you cross it, for a view of the
waters, based on photographs the Statue of Liberty. Stroll spires of the Trinity Church (see
of a World War II attack on an through the park, where you p71). Turn right at Maiden Lane,
American ship. Head past Castle can relax on benches in the shade then left onto the quaint and
BATTERY Clinton monument 9, a fort of trees. Continue on to State cobblestoned Front Street,
PARK A LBAN Y ST R E E T built during the War of Street, turn right onto Whitehall, which feeds into South Street
SOUTH END AVENUE ZUCCOTTI M AI DEN L A NE Battery Maritime Building 0. of the tall ships in the harbor.
CITY and then left onto South Street, Seaport e (see p84), marked
1 RECTOR passing the graceful Beaux Arts by the wooden masts and sails
PARK
WASHINGTON STREET
PLACE
history at the South Street
LIBERTY NASSAU ST S T J O H N S T R E E T Explore New York’s seafaring
PLAZA Rector St GREENWICH STREET PLACE Wall St W I L L I A M S T R E E T Seaport Museum, and then
L IBERTY STRE E T
1.R
4.5
WEST THAMES STREET
SQUARE
J 2 SE C O ND PL A C E W E S T S I D E H I G H W AY 9 A ( W E S T S T ) TRIN ITY Broad St P I N E S T R E E T LEGION P E A R L S T R E E T ST JOHN STREET FULTON STREET BEEKMAN ST wander the shop-lined Fulton
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WATER ST
Street to Water Street. Take
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a peek into Bowne & Co
T HIRD PLA CE
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Stationers at 211 r, a charming
W A L L
19th-century antique hand
FLETCHER ST
y
presses. Amble toward Pier
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3 5 6 B R O A D W A Y N E W S T R E E T STRE ET EXC HANGE PLACE Wall St MA I D E N L ANE S O U T H S T R E ET Pier 17 old-fashioned print shop with
F I RST P L ACE
16 for a further glimpse of
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4 B E A V ER ST REET W A T E R S T R E E T P I N E S T R E E T J tall ships t, including the
ROBERT F. Bowling P E A R L S T R E E T S O U T H S T R E E T V I A D U C T Pier 16
WAGNER JR Green BOWLING B R O AD HANOVER F R O N T S T R E E T massive ship, Peking. Continue
GREEN
PARK J 4.5 SQUARE on to Pier 17 y, which is
7 GOVERNEUR ST undergoing extensive
8 W HIT E H A L L S T R E E T S O U T H S T R E E T renovations, but will soon be
9 B AT T E R Y P L A C E STATE S TRE E T P E A R L S T R E E T O L D S L I P bustling with shops and cafés.
BATTER Y VIETNAM As you walk the wooden pier,
look back for a memorable view
P ARK VETERANS’ of Manhattan – the masts of
PARK
Whitehall St BROAD STREET
N.R q ancient schooners against the
S O U T H S T city’s towering skyscrapers.
PETER MINUIT
SOUTH FERRY PLAZA Finish up at the inviting Paris
PLAZA
South Ferry Café in the 1873 Meyer’s Hotel.
1 South Street Seaport
0 Follow South Street, with the Tips for Walkers
Brooklyn Bridge in the distance.
Walk through the Vietnam Starting point: The Esplanade
Veterans Memorial Plaza q, near Rector Place.
Key with its glass memorial etched Length: 2 miles (3.2 km).
Getting there: Take subway train
with the poignant words from
Walk route 1 or R to Rector Street. Head west
soldiers to their loved ones. on Rector Street, cross the bridge
Head north on Water Street, over West Street to Rector Place,
so named because it marks and walk to the Esplanade.
what was once the water’s Stopping-off points: Gigino, on
edge, and past Old Slip; all Wagner Park at 20 Battery Place,
0 meters 300 streets named “slip” are where offers savory Italian fare outdoors.
0 yards 300 boats used to dock between
For keys to symbols see back flap
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