New York City’s Financial District is on Manhattan’s southern tip below Chambers St and the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s the home of City Hall and Wall Street. The district includes Battery Park City and South Street Seaport.
The World Trade Center and The Battery offer beautiful harbor views. There are tour boat and ferry connections to the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island and Governors Island.
Pier 17 and Stone Street have some fun bars.
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Cultural Venues
National Museum of the American Indian
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Schimmel Center
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- 9/11 Tribute Museum
- Castle Clinton National Monument
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
Parks
- Bowling Green Park
- Battery Park
- City Hall Park
- Louise Nevelson Plaza
- Zuccotti Park
Open Streets
Open Streets is a program of pedestrian-only streets that New York City launched during the COVID-19 pandemic to help restaurants operate more safely outdoors.
- Ann Street between Nassau and William St
- Front Street between Beekman St and Peck Slip
- Pearl Street between Wall St and Broad St
- Pine Street between William St and Pearl St
Government
The government works for us. Don’t be shy about asking them for help. It’s their job.
New York City Government
- New York City Council District 1 – Margaret S. Chin
- Manhattan Community District 1
- NYPD 1st Precinct
New York State Government
- State Senate District 26 – Brian P. Kavanagh
- State Assembly District 65 – Yuh-Line Niou
- State Assembly District 66 – Deborah Glick
Federal Government
- U.S. Senator – Charles “Chuck” Schumer
- U.S. Senator – Kirsten Gillibrand
- 10th Congressional District – Jerrold Nadler
- 12th Congressional District – Carolyn Maloney
Financial District History
The area was originally an Indigenous Lenape market. Dutch colonizers came, brought human enslavement and built New Amsterdam (1626 -1664).
The English renamed it New York in 1664. In 1685, Africans were forced to build a town wall. The wall became a market for human beings. In 1711 New York’s first official human market was set up at the corner of Wall and Pearl Streets.
Buttonwood Agreement of 1792 between an association of traders later became the New York Stock Exchange. All this grew into what we now know as the world’s leading financial services hub: Wall Street.