Lower Manhattan - Quick List - Sight Seeing |
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Brooklyn
Bridge - Free - Entrance just across City Hall at Park Row. You
can't miss it. Walk across and take in life! Alone or with a friend,
it's a spectacle to behold. Walk right back half way...or go on to
the Brooklyn side and visit the area: Cadman Plaza, Montague Street
(lot's of eats), and the Brooklyn Promenade where you'll get quite
some view of the city. Definitely bring a camera to this bridge! click for more info |
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Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
- Ferries depart from Battery Park - Fares
are $8 and decrease for seniors and kids - Visit these national monuments
and get a taste of history. Once the entryway for millions of immigrants,
these sites are still recognized the world over. |
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Museum of American Financial History
- 28 Broadway/below Exchange Pl. - $2 donation - "the nation's only
independent public museum dedicated to celebrating the capital markets
-- and the industry which has made New York City the financial capital
of the world." Available are tours of the Financial District. |
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South Street Seaport - Located at the
very East End, behind the Financial District... |
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of the American Indian - Free - 1 Bowling Green - Enjoy a quick exhibition
with multimedia involvement and learn about the many races, tribes and more
that made up the Americas. If you don't like the exhibit then you're sure
to at least appreciate this Landmark Building's innards...if at least for
just 2 minutes? click for more info |
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Staten Island Ferry
- Right next to Battery Park. You can't miss it. Free, Free, FREE...did ya' hear me?....FREEEEEEEEEE Let's get on and see who gets to stand at the very end...with only the gates keeping us from goin' over....hehehehe....just kiddin....but yes, it's not like that 'Titanic' scene at the edge of the ship....but you'll love this round trip if you're in need for a quick change/pick me up. click for more info |
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Chinatown
- Lower East Side - Here everything is inexpensive...restaurants, foods,
products, mementos, buying items inside a shop or off the street...You'll
enjoy it nonetheless....Walk through here and just breathe in the culture...Just
let yourself wonder about here....Plenty of trains available that'll get
you back home. click for more info |
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Lower East Side Tenement
Museum - 90 Orchard Street, Manhattan |
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Museum of Jewish Heritage: A
Living Memorial to the Holocaust - Just off of Robert Wagner Park - $7
Admission for Adults - See this interesting 6 sided structure and learn
why..."educating people of all ages and backgrounds about the 20th
Century Jewish experience, before, during and after the Holocaust" |
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Federal
Hall National Memorial - 26 Wall Street - Free - Go in and take a look
at the exhibtion. 'And if not for that, then at least view the great architecture
of this famous Landmark. click for more info |
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Columbus Park
- All parks are Free - During your trip to Chinatown, hang out here to sit,
eat and drink should you decide to not eat indoors...It's a safe neighborly
sort of park full of culture. No one will mind if you sat on one of their
many benches to each your noodles, rice or whatever you chose to eat. Not
the cleanest...not the prettiest...but hey, it's my fave! click for more info |
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Federal
Reserve Bank of NY - 33 Liberty Street - Take a free tour through this
great building. The building itself is impressive and the security...well,
there's a small army within its walls to protect all that gold. Gold that's
within a vault some 5 stories below ground. click for more info |
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City Hall -
Broadway/Chambers St./Park Row - Beautifully renovated. Check out the Jacob
Wrey Mould Fountain which'll take you back in time some one or two hundred
years. click for more info |
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World Financial Center - Just behind the World Trade Center - Enter into the Winter Garden where you'll find palm trees rising 40+ feet?. Sit, relax, enjoy before you start on your trek around this great part of the city. |
| Fraunces Tavern Museum
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| Robert F.
Wagner Park - Just behind the World Trade Center is this gem of a park.
Stroll up and down and take in the great breeze comin' off the Hudson River. click for more info |
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(NYSE) Stock Exchange - 20 Broad Street, 3rd Floor
(just off of Wall Street) - Free tours on a first come first served basis.
Check out the trading floor, see interactive displays and learn more about
how it all works. |
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St. Paul's
Chapel - Broadway & Fulton Street - Free (Parish of Trinity Church) Completed in 1766, here is the "oldest public building in continuous use on Manhattan Island and the only remaining colonial church. Many great events took place here, many great people worshipped here and many greats were laid to rest here. Available are pamphlets about this site and Trinity Church (just be sure to leave behind the suggested price for the pamphlet and any other items offered...let's stay on the honor roll.) click for more info |
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Trinity Church
- 74 Trinity Place - Free - Here is another historic site. Within, is the
opportunity to learn about its history, view its museum, visit its bookstore
and perhaps even take a self guided tour of the vicinity through one of
the pamphlets available (just be sure to leave behind the suggested price
for the pamphlet and any other items offered...let's stay on the honor roll.) click for more info |
