This entry covers a very small but prestigious bit of real estate – an equilateral triangle from Broadway to Worth St.\/Foley Square to Park Row.\u00a0 It is the nerve center of the city, hosting many various civic buildings and courthouses.\u00a0 It features two buildings that were at one time the tallest in the world.\u00a0 The glory days of printed media are seen in the remnants of Newspaper Row.\u00a0 And at the triangle’s center is City Hall Park, its history dating back before Revolutionary times.<\/p>\n
Ten Points of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 City Hall Park<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – The 8.8 acre park started as a commons for the Dutch in 1691.\u00a0 As the city became established further downtown, it became a part of the outskirts, with a debtor’s prison, powder house and barracks being established.\u00a0 It was in front of these barracks on July 9, 1776 that the Declaration of Independence was first read in New York City to George Washington’s troops.\u00a0 Prior to that Liberty Polls, 5 in total, were repeatedly raised there to provoke British troops.\u00a0 A monument to them stands in the park<\/a> <\/strong>now, along with Statues of Nathan Hale<\/strong><\/a> and Horace Greeley<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Hale was America’s first spy, hanged at age 21; you may remember him from his famous line “I regret I have but one life to give for my country.”\u00a0 A replica statue stands in Langly, Virginia, home of the CIA.\u00a0 Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, political radical and 1872 Presidential Candidate, is famous for his own phrase: “Go West, Young Man.”<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> City Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/a> – built in 1811 from the designs of contest winners Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb, Jr., it is a site of both celebration and mourning, being the end point for the Canyon of Heroes parades and a laying-in-state spot for such figures as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 The illuminated clock<\/a> <\/strong>was installed in 1831, the first in the city.\u00a0 The interior<\/a><\/strong> is equally impressive and contains many paintings by artists such as John Trumbell and Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\n Today Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\n Thurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti. New york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\n Triumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\n Engine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n 7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n Above the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n 8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\n At the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.” Other interesting points:<\/p>\n
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\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\n
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\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. Woolworth, and the five-and-dime magnate was able to pay all $13-$15 million dollars of construction fees in cash.\u00a0 The Gothic-Revival building stretches 792 feet into the sky and looks especially majestic at night when illuminated<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In 1913, Brooklyn radio evangelist Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, struck with awe, referred to it as “The Cathedral of Commerce.”\u00a0 The name stuck.<\/p>\n
![City Hall Park<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – The 8.8 acre park started as a commons for the Dutch in 1691.\u00a0 As the city became established further downtown, it became a part of the outskirts, with a debtor’s prison, powder house and barracks being established.\u00a0 It was in front of these barracks on July 9, 1776 that the Declaration of Independence was first read in New York City to George Washington’s troops.\u00a0 Prior to that Liberty Polls, 5 in total, were repeatedly raised there to provoke British troops.\u00a0 A monument to them stands in the park<\/a> <\/strong>now, along with Statues of Nathan Hale<\/strong><\/a> and Horace Greeley<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Hale was America’s first spy, hanged at age 21; you may remember him from his famous line “I regret I have but one life to give for my country.”\u00a0 A replica statue stands in Langly, Virginia, home of the CIA.\u00a0 Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, political radical and 1872 Presidential Candidate, is famous for his own phrase: “Go West, Young Man.”<\/p>\n2.<\/strong> City Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/a> – built in 1811 from the designs of contest winners Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb, Jr., it is a site of both celebration and mourning, being the end point for the Canyon of Heroes parades and a laying-in-state spot for such figures as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 The illuminated clock<\/a> <\/strong>was installed in 1831, the first in the city.\u00a0 The interior<\/a><\/strong> is equally impressive and contains many paintings by artists such as John Trumbell and Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n3.\u00a0 Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![Nathan Hale<\/strong><\/a> and Horace Greeley<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Hale was America’s first spy, hanged at age 21; you may remember him from his famous line “I regret I have but one life to give for my country.”\u00a0 A replica statue stands in Langly, Virginia, home of the CIA.\u00a0 Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, political radical and 1872 Presidential Candidate, is famous for his own phrase: “Go West, Young Man.”<\/p>\n2.<\/strong> City Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/a> – built in 1811 from the designs of contest winners Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb, Jr., it is a site of both celebration and mourning, being the end point for the Canyon of Heroes parades and a laying-in-state spot for such figures as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 The illuminated clock<\/a> <\/strong>was installed in 1831, the first in the city.\u00a0 The interior<\/a><\/strong> is equally impressive and contains many paintings by artists such as John Trumbell and Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n3.\u00a0 Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. 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Woolworth, and the five-and-dime magnate was able to pay all $13-$15 million dollars of construction fees in cash.\u00a0 The Gothic-Revival building stretches 792 feet into the sky and looks especially majestic at night when illuminated<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In 1913, Brooklyn radio evangelist Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, struck with awe, referred to it as “The Cathedral of Commerce.”\u00a0 The name stuck.<\/p>\nOther interesting points:<\/p>\nSite of the P.T. 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![Horace Greeley<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Hale was America’s first spy, hanged at age 21; you may remember him from his famous line “I regret I have but one life to give for my country.”\u00a0 A replica statue stands in Langly, Virginia, home of the CIA.\u00a0 Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, political radical and 1872 Presidential Candidate, is famous for his own phrase: “Go West, Young Man.”<\/p>\n2.<\/strong> City Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/a> – built in 1811 from the designs of contest winners Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb, Jr., it is a site of both celebration and mourning, being the end point for the Canyon of Heroes parades and a laying-in-state spot for such figures as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 The illuminated clock<\/a> <\/strong>was installed in 1831, the first in the city.\u00a0 The interior<\/a><\/strong> is equally impressive and contains many paintings by artists such as John Trumbell and Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n3.\u00a0 Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![City Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/a> – built in 1811 from the designs of contest winners Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb, Jr., it is a site of both celebration and mourning, being the end point for the Canyon of Heroes parades and a laying-in-state spot for such figures as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 The illuminated clock<\/a> <\/strong>was installed in 1831, the first in the city.\u00a0 The interior<\/a><\/strong> is equally impressive and contains many paintings by artists such as John Trumbell and Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n3.\u00a0 Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. Woolworth, and the five-and-dime magnate was able to pay all $13-$15 million dollars of construction fees in cash.\u00a0 The Gothic-Revival building stretches 792 feet into the sky and looks especially majestic at night when illuminated<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In 1913, Brooklyn radio evangelist Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, struck with awe, referred to it as “The Cathedral of Commerce.”\u00a0 The name stuck.<\/p>\nOther interesting points:<\/p>\nSite of the P.T. 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![illuminated clock<\/a> <\/strong>was installed in 1831, the first in the city.\u00a0 The interior<\/a><\/strong> is equally impressive and contains many paintings by artists such as John Trumbell and Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n3.\u00a0 Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. Woolworth, and the five-and-dime magnate was able to pay all $13-$15 million dollars of construction fees in cash.\u00a0 The Gothic-Revival building stretches 792 feet into the sky and looks especially majestic at night when illuminated<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In 1913, Brooklyn radio evangelist Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, struck with awe, referred to it as “The Cathedral of Commerce.”\u00a0 The name stuck.<\/p>\nOther interesting points:<\/p>\nSite of the P.T. 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![The interior<\/a><\/strong> is equally impressive and contains many paintings by artists such as John Trumbell and Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n3.\u00a0 Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. Woolworth, and the five-and-dime magnate was able to pay all $13-$15 million dollars of construction fees in cash.\u00a0 The Gothic-Revival building stretches 792 feet into the sky and looks especially majestic at night when illuminated<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In 1913, Brooklyn radio evangelist Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, struck with awe, referred to it as “The Cathedral of Commerce.”\u00a0 The name stuck.<\/p>\nOther interesting points:<\/p>\nSite of the P.T. 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![Newspaper Row<\/span><\/a><\/strong> along Park Row had its prime from the 1840’s till just after the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1893, there were nineteen daily newspapers in the city of New York.\u00a0 Today, there are three.\u00a0 The tallest building in the world stood here in 1890, a 26-story, gold-domed building known as the “World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![“World Tower”<\/strong><\/a> home of the New York World.\u00a0 The Victorian-Gothic Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. Woolworth, and the five-and-dime magnate was able to pay all $13-$15 million dollars of construction fees in cash.\u00a0 The Gothic-Revival building stretches 792 feet into the sky and looks especially majestic at night when illuminated<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In 1913, Brooklyn radio evangelist Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, struck with awe, referred to it as “The Cathedral of Commerce.”\u00a0 The name stuck.<\/p>\nOther interesting points:<\/p>\nSite of the P.T. 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![Tribune Building<\/strong><\/a> also stood here until 1975.\u00a0 The old New York Times<\/strong> Building<\/strong><\/a> now exists as part of the local Pace University campus.\u00a0 Also along the row is the beautiful Potter Building, one of the first fireproof skyscrapers in the city.\u00a0 Standing in the tiny Printing House Square is Ernst Plassman’s statue of Ben Franklin, editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em> and father of American printing.<\/p>\n4.<\/strong> The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![The Park Row Building<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, No. 15, at 29 stories was the tallest building in the world from 1899 to 1908.\u00a0 Before being Newspaper Row, Park Row was New York’s theatre district in the late 18th century.\u00a0 If you take a right at the corner of Park Row and Beekman, you’ll find a now indistinguishable alley that was once the home of the Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. 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![Park Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, the first bonafide theatre of New York City.\u00a0 “Theatre Alley” served as a valet lane for wealthy carriage owners, and its narrow confines forced it to become the first one-way street in New York City.\u00a0 The street was conceived by John Astor so his wealthy friends wouldn’t have to associate with the lower class.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0 African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![African Burial Ground<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>located at the site of the Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![Federal Office Building<\/strong><\/a> (290 Broadway, 1993), this burial site was discovered during preliminary construction excavations.\u00a0 The area above City Hall Park had long been known as a “Negro Burial Ground,” and its existence dates back to the time of Dutch governance.\u00a0 In the early 18th century, the land was outside city limits and set aside for the burial of slaves free blacks and the destitute.\u00a0 It is the nation’s oldest known African-American cemetery, dating to 1712-1713.<\/p>\n6.\u00a0 Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. Woolworth, and the five-and-dime magnate was able to pay all $13-$15 million dollars of construction fees in cash.\u00a0 The Gothic-Revival building stretches 792 feet into the sky and looks especially majestic at night when illuminated<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In 1913, Brooklyn radio evangelist Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, struck with awe, referred to it as “The Cathedral of Commerce.”\u00a0 The name stuck.<\/p>\nOther interesting points:<\/p>\nSite of the P.T. 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![Foley Square<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> is named after politician Thomas F. Foley, famous political strategist of the late 19th – early 20th century.\u00a0 The Square was originally a spring-fed pond called Collect Pond used by the tanning industry in the 1700’s.\u00a0 In the early 1800’s, the city began to fill the pond and drain the surrounding marsh.\u00a0 The influx of industry, the sinking land undermined by the spring and the general stench made the area highly undesirable for residence.\u00a0 What emerged by the 1840’s was one of the worst slums the country has ever known, the “Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![“Five Points”<\/strong><\/a> (explored in the 2003 film Gangs of New York<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s center was the intersection of Baxter Street, Park St. and Worth St.\u00a0 The area averaged over a murder a day, not helped by police avoidance of the area.\u00a0 By the turn of the century the slums were razed and nothing remains of its past.<\/p>\nToday Foley Square is the home of many impressive courthouses and civic buildings:<\/p>\nThurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. 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![Thurgood Marshal U.S. Courthose<\/strong><\/a>: (1933-1936, Cass Gilbert & Gilbert Jr.) – designed as a sister building to the Supreme Court in Washington, it houses the U.S. District Court and Federal Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Famous trials include the Alger Hiss perjury case, the Rosenberg trial and the acquittal of John Gotti.\n\nDanial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![Danial Patrick Moynihan Courthouse<\/a><\/strong>: the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, perhaps most famous now for hosting the Bernie Madoff trial.<\/p>\nNew york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. 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![New york State Supreme Court Building<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 You may be familiar with it do to its appearance in movies, including 12 Angry Men<\/em>, and countless episodes of “Law and Order.”<\/p>\nTriumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. 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![Triumph of the Human Spirit:<\/strong><\/a> A 50-foot black granite sculpture honoring Africans brought to America against their will (2000).<\/p>\nEngine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. 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![Engine Company 31<\/strong><\/a>: At 87 Lafayette Street stands a beautiful French Renaissance-style building now home to DCTV<\/a><\/strong>, an awesome media learning center and venue of which I am a member.\u00a0 Check out their camera rental values<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The building is a City and National landmark.<\/p>\n7.<\/strong> The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![The Municipal Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>Located at 1 Centre Street, the building was built in 1914 by plans from McKin, Mead and White.\u00a0 There are many interesting features to this building, starting with the 25-foot tall Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. Garvey appears in log books as having received $45,966.89 for a single day of wall plastering (he was after referred to as the “Prince of the Plasterers).\u00a0 Also, if one were to fill all the orders for carpet for the city of New York during Tweed’s influence, a runner carpet could be made stretching from the city to Albany (~150 miles).<\/p>\n9.\u00a0 The Sun Building<\/span><\/a><\/strong> at the corner of Chambers and Broadway was also the site of the first large department store in New York City, “The Marble Dry-Goods Palace” (1846).\u00a0 The Sun newspaper published there from 1912 to its conclusion in 1952.\u00a0 At the corner stands the attractive Sun Clock<\/strong><\/a>, with its motto “The Sun it Shines for All.”\u00a0 On the second floor corner office, Sun editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous Christmas missive “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus<\/strong>.”\n<\/a>\n10.\u00a0 The Woolworth Building<\/span><\/a> – <\/strong>The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway was the world’s tallest building on its completion in 1913 (Cass Gilbert) and remained that way until 1930 when it was surpassed by the Chrysler Building.\u00a0 It was essentially a career monument to owner F.W. 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![Civic Fame<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>at the top in gilt gold.\u00a0 It holds a laurel branch and wears a five-pointed crown, a point for each burrough.\u00a0 It is the second tallest statue in the city after the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\nAbove the colonnade are written the three names the island has had: New York, New Amsterdam and Manhattan (Algonquian for “Island of Many Hills”).\u00a0 Also displayed are the shields of Amsterdam, Great Britain, New York City and New York State.\u00a0 Other features include the winged figures Guidance and Executive Power, the panels Civic Duty and Civic Pride, and the relief medallions Progress and Prudence.\u00a0 Chambers Street used to run through the building, but the area is now Police Plaza.\u00a0 Inside you’ll find Bernard Rosenthal’s street sculpture Five in One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n8.<\/strong> The Criminal Courts Building behind City Hall is known more familiarly as Tweed Courthouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The structure is a monument to embezzlement.\u00a0 Quoted at a price of $250,000 in 1858, the building was completed thirteen years later at a cost of $12-$13 million dollars, with an estimated $8.5 million going to Boss Tweed and his friends.<\/p>\nAt the time, William M. “Boss” Tweed was the leader of the Democratic organization Tammany Hall.\u00a0 Though he never held high public office, his many connections allowed for years of awe-inspiring taxpayer theft.\u00a0 For instance, a man named Andrew J. 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