  
ITINERARY: LOWER MANHATTAN
In just one hour, discover the story of Lower Manhattan from its beginning as a trading post to its rise as the financial capital of the world.
Experience New York’s dramatic waterfront. Colonial cobblestone streets. The canyons of Wall Street. And more.
Learn about Broadway’s origin as an Indian trail. See the ruins of a tavern that was the city’s first town hall. Hear how Wall Street’s early barons trumped each other to construct the tallest, most lavish buildings in the world.
HIGHLIGHTS
NY Harbor Views of the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island . . . Experience the grandeur of the Lady of the Harbor who stands sentry to America’s famous immigrant gateway.
U.S. Customs House . . . A magnificent Beaux Art building that celebrates NY’s beginnings as a great seaport.
Bowling Green Park . . . The oldest park in New York City, once an Indian trading post.
Wall Street . . . Symbolizing great financial power from the dynamic New York Stock Exchange to enormous 40 Wall, intended as the world’s tallest building.
Fraunces Tavern . . . Once a hot bed of radical activity and George Washington’s favored watering hole.
Stone Street Historic District . . . Enter the pre-revolutionary world of New Amsterdam, where little has changed since the 17th-century: cobblestone streets and Dutch-style gabled roofs.
Trinity Church . . . The beautiful little stone church that pre-dated America, with its cemetery filled with gravestones from the 1600s.
Former WTC Site & St. Paul’s Chapel . . . A testament to NY’s resilient spirit.
Woolworth Building . . . A sheer Gothic fantasy of soaring arches, flying buttresses, spires and gargoyles.
And much more! . . . 22 sites in all.
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