City Center and Tribeca: Places of Change

A walking tour from the City Hall park north to Chambers Street and then west through lower Tribeca for a total distance of about ¾ of a mile. The tour will cover the historic significance of area and evolution from a frontier area of the City, to a place of government, then a place of trade and now a largely residential area.

Points of interest would include:
-City Hall and park
-Park Row
-Brooklyn Bridge
-8 Spruce
-Buildings on Chambers including David Dinkins Municipal Building, Surrogates Court, Tweed Courthouse, Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, 280 Broadway (the Marble Palace Stewart’s department store) and the Woolworth Building
-Cast iron buildings on Reade Street
-Bogardus Plaza, the old Cosmopolitan Hotel
-Duane Park, 60 Hudson building, AT&T Long Lines building and 56 Leonard (Jenga Building)