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Sightseeing in New York: A Sample Itinerary: Day 1

1st day (Battery Park, Tribeca, Liberty Island, Ellis Island, Staten Island, Financial District):

Battery Park

Directions:
Subway: 4 or 5 Lexington Avenue EXPRESS train to BOWLING GREEN.
Subway: N or R BMT LOCAL train to WHITEHALL STREET.
Subway: 1 or 9 7th Ave LOCAL train to SOUTH FERRY.
Bus: Broadway M6 bus to SOUTH FERRY (last stop).
From Grand Central, take 4 or 5 train.
From Penn Station, take N or R train.

Detailed Maps of Battery Park

Upper
Middle
Lower

Overview Map of Battery Park

There is a temporary World Trade Center memorial in Battery Park. The damaged sculpture of a sphere, once located in the center of a fountain at the plaza at the Word Trade Center, provides a symbolic memorial of the September 11 attacks.

World Trade Center & Koenig Sphere before it was tragically destroyed by terrorists. Sphere (after Sept. 11) by Fritz Koenig in Battery Park.

Art at Battery Park

Scheduled public events at Battery Park

The circular fortress called Castle Clinton was built in 1811 to defend the U.S. from British attacks. It is now the ticket booth for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferries.

Statue of Liberty
National Park Service Map

Tips About Visiting the Statue of Liberty

Facts:
Height above the water: 305 feet.
Year officially presented to the US by France: 1886, to commemorate 100 years of American independence.
Sculptor: Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, with inside scaffolding design by Gustave Eiffel.
4-foot 6-inch nose, 2-foot 6-inch eye, 3-foot mouth

Circle Line
Ticket office is located inside the Castle Clinton National Monument, in Battery Park. The ticket offices are open from one-half hour before the first sailing until the last sailing every day. Visitors are now allowed back on Liberty Island, but are advised to arrive an hour early due to screening procedures.
Harbor Cruise Schedule: 11:15 AM, 12:30 PM, 1:45 PM, 3:00 PM, 4:15 PM [also saw a time of 9:15 a.m. posted. need to check this]
Phone: 212-269-5755
Price: $10 adults, $8 seniors and $4 children (4-12)

If you sit on the right side of the ferry when going and sit on the left side coming back, you will see more of the statue during the ferry ride.

Currently the Statue is closed to visitors. It is scheduled to reopen some time this summer. Check before leaving to see if it is open. If it is open, it's important to get to the attraction as early as possible in order to avoid long lines. Upon departing from the ferry, go directly to the front entrance to the statue and wait in line to climb the statue.

Two lines form at either side and snake around to the front entrance. You have to wait in this line to climb the statue but not if you just want to take the elevator to the top of the pedestal. While at the top, read the book Liberty is holding.

Souvenir Notables: The green foam crown like Lady Liberty's.

Ellis Island
You can stay on the ferry and go back to the City or get off to see Ellis Island. Ellis Island is the renovated Immigration Museum. Follow the steps of the immigrants through the Baggage Room, Registry Room and a medical exam room.

Souvenir Notables: Irish scarves (St. Patrick's Day) featuring Book of Kells motif and shamrock motif, Ellis Island luggage charm

Ellis Island Map

Ellis Island Museum Directory (Floor Plan-Type Map)

Financial District (Wall Street):

Map of Financial District

The #2 and #3 subway trains stop at Wall and William Streets, one block east of Federal Hall. The #4 and #5 subway trains stop at Wall Street and Broadway, one block west of Federal Hall. J, M and Z subway trains stop at Wall and Broad Streets Monday through Friday. Bus service is provided by route M-15 on Water Street, three blocks to the east.

Federal Hall National Monument, 26 Wall Street at the corner of Nassau Street
George Washington was inaugurated on the site although this building didn't yet exist at the time. The Federal Hall NM is across the street from the New York Stock Exchange.

New York Federal Reserve Bank
Exhibits (call ahead re min ages for tours)
To schedule a tour, call Public Information at (212) 720-6130, send a fax to (212) 720-7459 or e-mail us at frbnytours@ny.frb.org. Since space is limited, we suggest you make your reservations several weeks in advance.

"Full Circle: The Olympic Heritage in Coins and Medals.” This show celebrates the return of the summer Olympics to Greece in 2004. Walk-in visitors are welcome from 10 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday (except bank holidays).

Drachmas, Doubloons and Dollars: The History of Money
On display at the Fed are more than 800 examples from the Society's noted collection of one million forms of currency used worldwide and spanning three millennia of history. Walk-in visitors are welcome from 10 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday (except bank holidays).

The Gold Vault
Resting 50 feet below sea level, on the solid bedrock of Manhattan island, the Fed’s vault contains billions of dollars worth of gold. Learn about the history of gold and find out about the unique role of the New York Fed in storing and safeguarding the precious metal. Call ahead for reservations.

FedWorks: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve System
Learn about the central banking functions of the Federal Reserve System through our interactive, multimedia exhibit called FedWorks. Designed as an educational tool, FedWorks allows visitors to participate in monetary policy simulations and to learn about the Fed's role in the economy. Call ahead for reservations.

Trinity Church. Founded in the 1840's. Gothic Revival architecture.

US Customs House

Bowling Green Park
From State Street to New York Harbor
Subway:4, 5 to Bowling Green; N, R to Whitehall St

Where Broadway begins, at the intersection of State and Whitehall Streets lies Manhattan's Bowling Green, the oldest green park in the city. The area began as a cattle market and a place for parades. In 1733 it was converted into a bowling green, hence today's name. This is most likely the spot where, in 1626, Dutchman Peter Minuit gave glass beads and other trinkets worth about 60 guilders ($24) to a group of Indians, and then claimed he had thereby bought Manhattan. The local Indians didn't think they owned this island (not because they didn't believe in property, a colonial myth) because Manhattan was considered communal hunting ground, so it isn't clear what the Indians thought the trinkets meant. Either (a) they just thought the exchange was a formal way of closing an agreement to extend the shared hunting use to this funny-looking group of pale people with yellow beards; or (b) they were knowingly selling land that they didn't own in the first place, thus, performing the first shrewd real-estate deal of the Financial District.

When King George III repealed the hated Stamp Act in 1770, New Yorkers magnanimously raised a statue of him here, although today it's just another lunch spot for stockbrokers. The statue lasted 5 years, until the day the Declaration of Independence was read to the public in front of City Hall (now Federal Hall) and a crowd rushed down Broadway to topple the statue, chop it up, melt it down, and transform it into 42,000 bullets, which they later used to shoot the British.

With the demise of the World Trade Center, the lower Manhattan TKTS booth, officially named the Downtown Theatre Centre, has relocated to Bowling Green Park Plaza. This is the place to pick up same-day discounted tickets for a Broadway or Off-Broadway show; the line is usually shorter here than it is at the Times Square location.

On the fringe of the park is the stunning, Cass Gilbert-designed 1907 beaux arts U.S. Customs House, currently housing the National Museum of the American Indian.

New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street, Tribeca/Lower East
Phone: 212-656-5165
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:45am - 4:30pm
Price: Free. Tickets are issued on a first-come, first-served basis.

-Third floor interactive education gallery that gives kids a chance to use interactive displays, retrieve financial information on stocks, bonds or options from market data terminals, and watch a video that explains the NYSE market system.

-Tours include a view of the trading floor, where the stocks of more than 3,000 domestic and non-U.S. companies trade. Recorded explanations in are available to enhance the experience.

-The Marketplace Gift Shop offers official NYSE souvenirs.

Directions: Subway to Broad Street.

The current building opened in 1903. It was designed by George B. Post and styled in the classical-revival manner popular at the time.

Food nearby:

World Trade Center Memorial Site / Ground Zero
Directions: Take the red or blue lines downtown to Chambers Street or the Green line to Fulton Street. Either way, you will be within a few blocks of Ground Zero.
A new train station for the New Jersey PATH commuter trains has been built to replace the one destroyed in the collapse of the towers. It sits on the edge of the Ground Zero construction site near Church Street. If you go down the steps into the upper level of the station, you can get a good glimpse into the great pit of the construction site.

Staten Island Ferry
Price: Free
Hours: Runs 24 hours per day, each trip lasts 25 minutes.

Brooklyn Bridge

Map of Brooklyn Bridge area

1st evening:

Lips, 2 Bank Street at Greenwich Ave., Greenwich Village
Phone: 212-675-7710
Hours: Mon-Thu 5:30pm-12m; Fri-Sat 5:30pm-1am; Sun 11:30am-4:30pm, 5:30pm-12am
Food is less expensive weekday nights. Shows begin around 7:00pm. Reservations recommended.

Map of Greenwich Village

Times Square

Les Miserables
Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street
Running Time: 3 hrs with one intermission
A musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg based on Victor Hugo's famous novel of 19th century France. The action begins in 1815 as Jean Valjean, a man condemned to 19 years of hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family, finds only hatred and suspicion when he is released on parole. Meeting one man who believes in him, Valjean breaks his parole to begin a new life. The story truly begins as Jean Valjean crosses the landscape of early 19th century France, always pursued by the righteous police inspector Javert. From his adoption and love of the orphan Cosette, to the darkly funny plots of the thieving Thenardiers, from the soaring revolutionary fire of the student rebels who fight on the barricade in the streets of Paris to the final confrontation between Jean Valjean and Javert, the story of Les Miserables is one of love, courage and redemption.

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