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