You saw Lady Liberty on your Circle Line half-island tour yesterday, but now you want to get up close and personal with her. Ferries leave from Battery Park (check the online schedule) Read more.
Wander through the Registry room and you’ll hear the echoes of hundreds of different languages of immigrants who came through these doors to a better life.
Take the free Downtown Connection bus that travels from Battery Park to South Street Seaport, with stops along the way including one at Wall Street.
Take the A or C train at Broadway–Nassau Street toward Brooklyn and get off at High Street, the first stop in Brooklyn.
You have been well fed, so now you have the energy to make the approximately half-hour stroll back to Manhattan. The view of the Manhattan skyline is spectacular
You are now in Brooklyn and probably very hungry. You’ll need nourishment for your next adventure, and where better than this famed pizzeria, in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge? tel. 718/858-4300.
Now visit the prototype of a Lower East Side tenement where many of those immigrants lived. The only way to see the museum is by guided tour, which takes place frequently between 10am and 6pm
Take the F train at Second Avenue and Houston Street two stops uptown to West 4th Street.
On the north end of the park, you’ll see a row of elegant late-19th-century town houses and Washington Square Arch, patterned after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
if it is a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday, you’ll be in for a treat because the city’s best greenmarket, the Union Square Greenmarket, will be buzzing with activity.
Stop in for a pint to quench your thirst after that full day of walking. The city’s oldest continually operating drinking establishment. Look familiar?
