Financial District

Nearest subway

South Ferry 1 · 1 min walk to the start

The 45 stops

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1. 
   1Staten Island Ferry

   The best free ride in New York starts right here.

2. 
   2The Castello Plan

   Imagine this spot in 1660.

3. 
   3Fraunces Tavern

   Fraunces Tavern is where George Washington said goodbye.

4. 
   4Remnant of Lovelace Tavern

   Look down through the glass panels in the sidewalk.

5. 
   5Lehman Brothers Site

   This building at One William Street was once the headquarters of Lehman Brothers.

6. 
   6Stone Street

   Stone Street got its name for a simple reason: in 1658, it became one of the first streets in New Amsterdam to be paved with stones.

7. 
   7Delmonico’s

   In 1884 a dinner here may have cost James Blaine the White House.

8. 
   8Leo’s Bagels

   Leo’s Bagels is a Financial District favorite for hand-rolled bagels, boiled and baked the classic New York way.

9. 
   9The Queen Elizabeth II Garden

   This small garden in Hanover Square honors the 67 British victims of the September 11 attacks.

10. 
    10Mannahatta Park

    Mannahatta was the Lenape name for this island, often translated as “island of many hills.” This little park sits at the foot of Wall Street, where from 1711 to 1762 the city ran its official market for buying, selling and hiring out enslaved people.

11. 
    11Circle Line Liberty Super Express Cruise 🎟

    If you want to see the Statue of Liberty up close but don’t have a whole day, the Liberty Super Express is the quick version.

12. 
    12Wavertree & Lightship Ambrose

    The Seaport Museum has two veterans of the sea tied up here.

13. 
    13Tin Building (Balloon Museum)

    For more than a century, the Tin Building was the beating heart of the Fulton Fish Market, where fishmongers unloaded the day’s catch before dawn.

14. 
    14Clipper City Tall Ship

    The Clipper City is a tall ship, a modern replica of an 1850s schooner that once carried lumber on the Great Lakes.

15. 
    15The Seaport

    Two hundred years ago, this was the busiest port in America.

16. 
    16Funny Face Bakery

    Funny Face Bakery makes cookies that are almost too pretty to eat, decorated with New York landmarks, pop culture faces and whatever is trending.

17. 
    17Titanic Memorial Park

    This small white lighthouse honors the people who died on the Titanic in 1912.

18. 
    18Conwell Coffee Hall

    Conwell Coffee Hall sits in the former headquarters of a major bank, in a grand Art Deco banking hall of marble with a sweeping mural of the city in the bold style of the 1930s.

19. 
    19Federal Hall

    On April 30, 1789, George Washington stood on a balcony here and took the oath of office as the first President of the United States.

20. 
    20New York Stock Exchange

    Look at the white stone building on the corner of Wall and Broad, number 23, and you’ll see pockmarks in the wall.

21. 
    21The Fearless Girl

    In March 2017, the night before International Women’s Day, a bronze girl appeared in front of the Charging Bull, hands on her hips, staring it down.

22. 
    22Trinity Church

    Trinity Church was founded in 1697 by royal charter, and the building you see is its third, finished in 1846.

23. 
    23Alexander Hamilton’s Gravesite

    Here lies Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, who built the American financial system just a few blocks from here.

24. 
    24FDNY Memorial Wall

    On September 11, 2001, the firefighters of Engine 10 and Ladder 10, in the firehouse right across from the towers, were among the first to respond.

25. 
    25One World Trade Center Sphere

    For thirty years, this bronze sculpture by German artist Fritz Koenig stood on the plaza between the Twin Towers, a symbol of world peace through trade.

26. 
    26Survivor Tree

    A month after the attacks, workers found a small Callery pear tree in the rubble, burned and broken, with only one living branch.

27. 
    279/11 Memorial & Museum 🎟

    The two pools of the memorial sit exactly where the Twin Towers stood.

28. 
    28Mercer Labs 🎟

    Mercer Labs is a museum of art and technology, built around immersive rooms of light, sound and projection.

29. 
    29Oculus Center

    The Oculus is the white winged train station that rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center.

30. 
    30St. Paul’s Chapel

    St. Paul’s Chapel was built in 1766 and is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan.

31. 
    31Mural Project

    FiDi isn’t all suits and skyscrapers.

32. 
    32Smorgasburg WTC

    On Fridays from April through October, Smorgasburg WTC brings food stalls to the plaza by the Oculus.

33. 
    33Perelman Performing Arts Center

    The cube clad in thin marble is the Perelman Performing Arts Center, which opened in 2023 as the final piece of the rebuilt World Trade Center site.

34. 
    34One World Trade Center & One World Observatory 🎟

    One World Trade Center rises exactly 1,776 feet, a nod to the year of American independence, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

35. 
    35Irish Hunger Memorial

    This memorial remembers the Great Famine, which killed about a million people in Ireland in the 1840s and sent many more across the ocean, many of them to New York.

36. 
    36North Cove Marina

    North Cove Marina is a small harbor for yachts and sailboats, with the Hudson River and the Statue of Liberty beyond.

37. 
    37Brookfield Place

    Brookfield Place is a complex of office towers, shops and restaurants on the Hudson.

38. 
    38Museum of Jewish Heritage

    The Museum of Jewish Heritage is a living memorial to the Holocaust.

39. 
    39Skyscraper Museum

    The Skyscraper Museum is a small museum devoted to tall buildings, which makes perfect sense in a city that practically invented them.

40. 
    40Charging Bull

    The Charging Bull arrived as a surprise.

41. 
    41Bowling Green

    Bowling Green is the oldest public park in New York.

42. 
    42National Museum of the American Indian

    The Custom House was built in 1907 to collect the import duties that once paid for most of the federal government.

43. 
    43Battery Park

    Battery Park is named after the batteries of cannons that once defended the harbor from here.

44. 
    44Castle Clinton National Monument

    In 1850 a hatter paid $225 for a single concert ticket here, and it made his name.

45. 
    45Statue City Cruises 🎟

    End your walk by boarding the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, operated by Statue City Cruises, the only official ferry to both islands.