After the Battery Park area we saw the U.S. Customs House, which was incredibly hard to take pictures of, but was really pretty. It has 4 statues outside that represent America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. I'm not positive which one is which, but I'm going to try and guess by the description in the Frommer's guide book. He says that Asia is pondering philosophically, America is bright eyed and bushy-tailed, Europe is decadent and whose time has passed, and Africa who is sleeping.
Europe
America
Africa
Asia
The reason it was so hard to take pictures was because they were apparently filming something and they had these cars set up out in the middle of the walkway
The filming equipment took up quite a few blocks
The Charging Bull (aka - the Wall Street Bull). I couldn't get a good picture because there were people EVERYWHERE and we didn't want to fight the crowd or wait to get up close
Trinity Church. The first National Treasure movie, they found the treasure here.
From the end of Wall St
This was a sculpture that represents a tree that fell on 9/11 in St. Paul's Chapel in such a way that it didn't bother any of the graves. For some reason this is impossibly blurry but you can get the idea
The cemetery
Captain James Lawrence (or his wife, or just a monument to both of them...I can't remember)
Alexander Hamilton is buried here
His wife
Old graves, New city
Robert Fulton, who I had to Google, but turns out is pretty famous. He was an engineer and is credited as creating the first commercially successful steamboat.He also designed the first submarine, the Nautilus.
Thought this grave was cool. It said, "Here lies interred the body of John Waddell who departed this life May 29 1762 aged 47 years 7 months and 13 (or 15) days" I've never seen a grave say days before
John Watts, who was a NY Congressman, had the biggest place
Broken
Wall St!
Wall St and NY Stock Exchange
Federal Hall National Memorial. This is where George Washington was sworn in. Also difficult to get pictures because of the crazy amount of people.
The view of the Stock Exchange from behind George Washington
Stock Exchange
Final stop was South Street Seaport. It was where the old fishing market was, but now it is a mall type place, like you see everywhere in Florida. It was really raining at this point, there was a kids festival going on, and our feet were starting to hurt...so we didn't really do much here. We cut our trip short afterwards (original plan included China Town) and headed home.
Big old ship
Cobbled streets and cute buildings. They had cute shops and restaurants around here.
Municipal Building on our way to the subway
And that is finally down and we can move on to food, Ari, and maybe a picture or 2 from Jessie's 4 hour visit.
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