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Brooklyn Bridge 

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!
 
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.

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.

South Street Seaport - Located at the very East End, behind the Financial District...
No cost to sight see; Fantastic view of Brooklyn Bridge; Walk through the South Street Seaport District and then there's the Museum and the Pavillion. Plenty of eating choices and stores to window browse. Costs Inexpensive to board one of the ships.

Museum 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?

Staten Island Ferry - Right next to Battery Park. You can't miss it.

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.

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.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum - 90 Orchard Street, Manhattan
Guided and tours through the historical buildings of Lower Manhattan. Admission depends on the kinds of tours taken, but are usually under $10 for adults and less for seniors and students

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"


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.

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!

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.
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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.

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 -
54 Pearl St

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.

(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.
 
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.)

Trinity Church
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.)
 

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