Wall Street to Brooklyn Pizza by Foot and Ferry

Wall Street to Brooklyn Pizza by Foot and Ferry

You will have a walk on Wall Street that gives you American Revolution and early USA history; the Stock Exchange, statue of George Washington at the Sub-Treasury building, and other important banking and trading locations on our way down to the river.

Then we go from Manhattan Island to Brooklyn by ferry boat.

No one else offers such a detailed Wall Street tour, that ends across the river in Brooklyn, sitting down to delicious, fresh pizza, at a restaurant featuring huge windows with a skyline that takes in Manhattan towers, the Brooklyn Bridge and river views!

Itinerary
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Pass By: Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, NY 10038

Over a mile long.

World's longest bridge in 1883.

Designed by a man and finished by a woman.

We will pass almost directly below it.

Pass By: Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York City, NY 10003

Seen in the films Enchanted and Fantastic Beasts.

Tallest building in the world, 1913. Visible from Wall Street.

Pass By: One World Trade Center, 285 Fulton St, New York City, NY 10007-0089

541 meters or 1776 feet tall, it's the tallest building in the West!

Easily visible from our starting point.

Pass By: Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York City, NY 10004

Gift of France to the USA.

She faces the ocean, once the route of ship immigrants.

Her torch is like a lighthouse!

You'll see her to the south, about 1 km, when we cross the river by ferry.

Pass By: Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Staten Island, NY, USA

Longest bridge in the world in 1964; still longest in the USA.

Seen in the film Saturday Night Fever.

Pass By: Manhattan Bridge, South Street and FDR Drive, New York City, NY 10002

Constructed for the motor age and Subways that came after the Brooklyn Bridge was completed, the Manhattan Bridge is 100% steel and many times stronger than the Brooklyn Bridge.

You'll see it off to the side as we cross the river.

Stop At: Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, New York City, NY 10006

We stop at the graves of Francis Lewis, a Declaration Of Independence signer and vet of the American Revolution

Alexander Hamilton, Revolution veteran and

first US Treasury Secretary

Captain Lawrence, martyr in the War Of 1812

Franklin Wharton, 4th Commandant of the USMC.

Memorial to the American prisoners of war (POWs) of the American Revolution, known as the Prison Ship Martyrs.

Trinity is being renovated into 2020. Should it be open, we will see several more historic markers.

Sadly, the entrance to Nicolas Cage's National Treasure cavern has been sealed up, although we'll see the grave of Charlotte Temple, a character in an 18th-century novel!!

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Federal Hall, 26 Wall St, New York City, NY 10005-1996

The 1842 sub-treasury building that replaced old New York City Hall. President Washington was inaugurated at that city hall. Federal Hall is adorned with a 2x-life-size statue of Mr. Washington in about the spot where he became the first president of the United States of America.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad St, New York City, NY 10005-2601

Opened in 1903, the busiest stock exchange in the world, though owned by the Bourse of Germany.

Duration: 2 minutes

Stop At: Fearless Girl, 8 Broadway Street, New York City, NY 10004-2207

Commissioned by a Financial District corporation with women on its board of directors, Fearless Girl depicts a girl of about 8 years, defiantly facing the NYSE with hands on her hips.

Duration: 2 minutes

Stop At: House of Morgan, 23 Wall St, New York City, NY 10005-1962

The banking operations center for JP Morgan, the first billionaire. Opened 1904, right across the street from the NYSE, on the most expensive land in the world.

Duration: 2 minutes

Stop At: Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman St, Brooklyn, NY 11201-9750

A long park on the shore of DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights. We will go a little way into DUMBO for Manhattan skyline photos before going to the pizzeria.

Duration: 5 minutes