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The Battery

Walking to the "The Battery" and seeing the Statue of Liberty

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We walked from the Word Trade Center down Liberty Street to Broadway and headed south toward Battery Park.

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Trinity Church. Historic Episcopal church and cemetery where Alexander Hamilton and other early Americans are buried.

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Charging bull. 3-ton bronze sculpture of a bull located near Wall Street symbolizing New York's financial industry.

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National Museum of the American Indian. Native American art & artifacts, some going back 12,000 years, displayed in a former customs house.

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Hugh.L Carey Tunnel Ventilation Building

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Castle Clinton National Monument. Circular fort from 1808-1811 & later an immigration center, now a small museum.

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Statue of Liberty National Monument opened in 1886.

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Governors Island National Monument

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Staten Island Ferry

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SeaGlass Carousel featuring large, iridescent fiberglass fish & undersea-inspired light effects.

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Walking up State Street to the Bowling Green subway station.

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The original plan was to walk to Chinatown, but our feet are hurting and we decide to ride the subway to the Brooklyn Bridge stop.

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Pretty cool how many stations still have the original look.





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