Downtown / Financial District / Ground Zero / Battery Park / Battery Park City

This is the financial center of the world.  We’ll visit the site of The World Trade Center (Ground Zero), and walk down narrow winding streets that recall an earlier New York.  Other sites of interest are:

• Bronze Bull – symbol of a bull market on Wall Street.
• Wall Street – named for a wall erected in 1653 now famous as the financial center of the world.
• New York Stock Exchange – securities exchange.
• Federal Hall – George Washington inauguration in 1789.
• Trinity Church – first Gothic revival church in the city, Alexander Hamilton buried here.
• St. Paul’s Chapel – city’s oldest church that held service after Washington’s inauguration.
• Woolworth Building – in 1913 the world’s tallest building.
• City Hall – the Declaration of Independence was first read to George Washington here.
• Battery Park City – wonderful waterfront tree lined esplanade where one finds parks, boat docks, apartment houses, and major financial institutions.