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South Street Seaport

Where the Financial District ends, the skyline, as seen from the East River
or Brooklyn, changes dramatically. The corporate headquarters are
replaced by the piers, low-rise streets, and warehouses of the old seaport
area, now restored as the South Street Seaport (see p84). The Civic
Center lies not far inland, and a few of its monu mental buildings can
be seen. The Brooklyn Bridge marks the end of this stretch of skyline.
Between here and Midtown, apartment blocks make up the majority Locator Map
of riverside features. South Street Area
KEY
1 28 Liberty Street
2 175 Water Street
3 4 World Trade Center
4 One Seaport Plaza
Pier 17
5 One World Trade Center The focal point of the
6 Transportation Building Seaport, this leisure pier,
7 The Beekman part-shopping mall, part-
entertainment complex, is
8 30 Park Place due to reopen in 2017 after
9 New York by Gehry extensive renovations.
0 Pace University
q Southbridge Towers
w Police Plaza
e Verizon Building

Pier 15
With two floors of observation decks, offer- Titanic Memorial
ing brilliant East River views, Pier 15 is also The lighthouse on Fulton Street commemorates the
home to the Maritime sinking of the Titanic, the largest steamship ever built.
Crafts Center.

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