Lower Manhattan
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Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan, is the southernmost part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The area is the historical birthplace of New York City and in the 17th and 18th c
Lower Manhattan, including Wall Street – a leading financial district, Battery Park, and One World Trade Center – the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere
New Amsterdam, centered in what eventually became Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it New York
Peter Stuyvesant
Cooper Union at Astor Place, one of Lower Manhattan's most storied buildings, where Abraham Lincoln gave his famed Cooper Union speech on February 27, 1860
One World Trade Center
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One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by David Childs of Skidm
Lower Manhattan
…many of New York City's most iconic structures, including New York City Hall, the Woolworth Building, the Stonewall Inn, the Bull of Wall Street, and One World Trade Center, the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. Lower Manhattan is delineated on the north by 14th Street, on the west by the Hudson River, on the…
One World Trade Center in June 2021
The original One World Trade Center, pictured in summer 2001
Concrete construction, as of October 7, 2006
One WTC above street level, as of February 28, 2009