Financial District Clean-Up

I did a few miles in the Financial District today to cover some streets that I'd missed on my last two walks in lower Manhattan.  Thematically they were similar, but what made this walk notable was that it marked the end of my "neighborhood walks".  All that's left from here on out are the avenues running north/south.

While I'll miss getting to really know small pockets of the city, walking back and forth does get repetitive, as does having to pay attention to where I'm going so that I don't miss a street.  Taking longer "cruise control" walks are what got me into this in the first place and I've been looking forward to getting back to them.

Today's walk (everything inside the red border)

There's nothing really to say here that I didn't already say in my last two posts about Lower Manhattan, so I'll just skip straight to the pictures.

Start of Walk

Front St. at Old Slip

Financial District skyscrapers (70 Pine St. in the center)

Front St. btw Gouverneur Ln. and Wall St.

Cool decorative detail

Platt St. btw Gold St. and Pearl St.

40 Wall St.

William St. btw Liberty St. and Cedar St.

14 Wall St - "The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus on top of St Mark's Campanile"

William St. btw Pine St. and Wall St.

Ornate door

William St. btw Exchange Pl. and William St.

George Clinton: Governor, Vice President, Master of Funk

Maiden Ln. btw Pearl St. and Gold St.

Federal Reserve again

Maiden Ln. btw Pearl St. and Gold St.

What I can only imagine is a superfund site

Pearl St. btw Platt St. and Maiden Ln.

Pretty building

Pearl St. btw Wall St. and Beaver St.

Top of 40 Wall St.

Pearl St. btw Wall St. and Beaver St.

Faces

Exchange Pl. btw William St. and Hanover St.

55 Wall St. (Herman Melville wrote part of Moby Dick while working here)

Wall St. btw. William St. and Hanover St.