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LOWER MANHATTAN AND
THE CIVIC CENTER

The old and the new con verge in Lower the new One World Trade Center soars 1,776 ft
Manhattan, where Colonial churches and early (541 m) above the city, with a spate of modern
American monuments stand in the shadow of office towers, hotels, and transport hubs
sky scrapers. New York was born here in the dotting the area. To the north, the Civic
1620s, and, with the emergence of Wall Street, Center is the axis of the police department
it has remained at the heart of the world’s and the federal goverment’s court systems,
financial markets. Since the September 11 while nearby South Street Seaport is a restored
attacks, there has been startling regeneration: dock area of shops, restaurants, and old ships.
Sights at a Glance
Historic Streets, Buildings, Museums and Galleries Parks and Squares
and Important Sites 4 Museum of American Finance t Bowling Green
1 Federal Reserve Bank 8 National September 11 o Vietnam Veterans’ Plaza
2 Federal Hall Memorial Museum f Battery Park
3 New York Stock Exchange pp72–3 w Museum of Jewish Heritage z City Hall Park and Park Row
7 National September 11 Memorial e Skyscraper Museum Boat Trips
9 9/11 Tribute Center y National Museum of p Staten Island Ferry
a Governors Island the American Indian
h Schermerhorn Row i Fraunces Tavern Museum Churches
j South Street Seaport d Ellis Island pp82–3 5 Trinity Church
k Criminal Courthouses Monuments and Statues u Saint Elizabeth Ann
l City Hall r Charging Bull Seton Shrine
c Woolworth Building x St. Paul’s Chapel
s Statue of Liberty pp78–9
g Castle Clinton Modern Architecture
National Monument 6 Brookfield Place
v African Burial Ground 0 One World Trade Center
National Monument WHITE STREET q Battery Park City & Irish
Hunger Memorial
RIVER TERRA CE WARREN ST B R O A D W A Y
CHAMBERS STREE T
r Chambers St LEONARD ST
e 1.2.3 LAFAYETTE STREET
v NORTH END AVENUE M U R RAY S T CENTRE STREET
i GREENWICH ST
R BARCLAY ST WEST BROADWAY Park Place READE ST Restaurants see pp294–9
2.3
PLAZA
R
2 Battery Gardens
North Cove VESEY STREET City Hall ST CHAMBERS ANDREW'S PEARL ST 1 Adrienne’s Pizza Bar
Yacht Harbor CITY Brooklyn PARK ROW 3 Delmonico’s
World Trade HALL Bridge-
n Center CHURCH STREET PARK City Hall 4 Fraunces Tavern
4.5.6
o BATTERY E Fulton St ST AVE OF THE FINEST 5 Les Halles
A.C.4.5
s PARK WE S TS ID E HI G H WAY 9A ( W ES T ST) FULTON NASSAU
d CITY 6 The Paris Café
GOLD STREET
u SOUTH EN D AVENUE LIBER TY Cortlandt St STREET ANN ST DOVER ST 7 SUteiShi
H GREENWICH ST ST R Fulton St JOHN ST Fulton St
2.3
J.Z
PEARL STREET
TR I N I T Y PLA C E
ST
Wall St
FRONT STREET
4.5
South Cove WASHINGTON STREET Rector St EXCHANGE Broad St WILLIAM ST LEGION FULTON ST V I A D U C T Brooklyn
BROADWAY
PECK SLIP
SQUARE
1.R
J.Z
CEDAR
Bridge
Wall St
2.3
FIRST PLACE
E a s t R i v e r
WALL ST
Bowling BEAVER ST PL HANOVER STREET M A I D E N L A N E PIER 17
Green SQUARE FRONT STREET
PIER A 4.5 BROA D ST W AT E R S T R E E T S OUTH S T R E E T PIER 15
FERRIES TO LIBERTY B ATTERY PEARL
PAR K
AND ELLIS ISLANDS STATE ST WHITEHALL ST Whitehall St SLIP PIER 11 Wall St
OLD
Brooklyn – Battery Tunnel South Ferry 1 R PIER 6 Ferry Pier
SOUTH FERRY
PLAZA
Downtown
Manhattan Heliport
Staten
Island Ferry
South Ferry
FERRIES TO GOVERNORS ISLAND 0 meters 500
AND WEEHAWKEN 0 yards 500 See also Street Finder maps 1, 2
Statue of Liberty monument, Liberty Island For keys to symbols see back flap
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