Lower Manhattan Tourist Scavenger Hunt

Lower Manhattan Tourist Scavenger Hunt

Are you planning a visit to New York City? Our Tourist Scavenger Hunt in the financial district, or Lower Manhattan, will take you from Battery Park to City Hall via Ground Zero and the New York Stock Exchange of course!

You will have to solve challenges at every step to discover your next destination. At each step, you will learn a little history as well as interesting facts about what surrounds you.

It is a 3-hour self-guided walking tour you'll compete with your smartphone - a data plan is required.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Walloon Settler's Monument, Battery Bikeway, New York, NY 10004, USA

Your fist of many monuments pertaining to the first settlers on Manhattan, and their history. The 1st challenge is simple enough.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Battery Park, New York, NY 10004, USA

Many monuments and attractions and much history await you in Battery Park. There are also quite a few challenges, some tougher than others.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Korean War Veterans Memorial, Battery Park, New York City, NY

Here you'll find a math challenge while you consult the dead and wounded from the many countries that participated in this conflict.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Castle Clinton National Monument, 26 Wall St Battery Park, New York City, NY 10005-1996

Discover the history and evolution of this battery. You will decipher a code on one of the historical plaques here.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York City, NY 10004

You'll see Lady Liberty from Battery Park and learn its history. There's a simple challenge here.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Governors Island, New York, NY 10004, USA

Learn the history of this island and how it got its name.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York City, NY 10017

Learn the history of this island and how it was grown to its current size.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: The Immigrants, South end of the Eisenhower Mall in Battery Park South of Castle Clinton, New York City, NY

Can you properly spot what we're looking for on this Sanguino sculpture?

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Netherland Monument, Battery Park Battery Pl. &, State St, New York, NY 10004, USA

Learn a little more about the first Dutch to settle here.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Grn, New York City, NY 10004-1415

Admire this museum within what was initially the Alexander Hamilton US Custom House.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Bowling Green, Broadway & Whitehall Street, New York City, NY 10004

This is where Fort New Amsterdam once stood and where King George III's statue was installed after the Seven Years' War.
You'll need to consult the various information plaques around this park to find the answer to your challenge.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Charging Bull (Wall Street Bull), 26 Broadway, New York City, NY 10004-1703

Learn the true meaning of this monument and solve a challenge.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Site of Second Presidential Mansion, 39 Broadway, New York, NY 10006, USA

See where stands the 2nd Presidential Mansion which George Washington occupied for less than 2 years. New York was the capital at that time.

Duration: 5 minutes

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

Admire this red-brick church, the 3rd Trinity Church in NYC. Correctly identify the statue's name to solve your challenge here.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: 9/11 Tribute Museum, 92 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10006, USA

Here we leave Manhattan's early settlers behind and start discussing the terrible events of 9/11.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: FDNY Memorial Wall, 124 Liberty St, New York City, NY 10006-1008

Admire this grand bronze mural memorializing New York's Fire Department's finest who rescued so many during the 9/11 attacks.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: 9/11 Memorial South Pool, 180 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10006, USA

Learn a little about the original World Trade Center's twin towers and when the aircraft struck them.
Then admire the footprint that's left of the south tower via the South Pool.

Duration: 5 minutes

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

Admire the new World Trade Center tower built after 9/11 as the city picked itself up and rebuilt.
There a tricky observational challenge here.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: The Oculus, 33-69 Vesey St World Trade Center, New York City, NY 10003

The newest PATH subway station in Manhattan.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street, 209 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, USA

The is the oldest standing church on Manhattan, built in 1766. It is where George Washington came to pray here on the day of his inauguration as 1st President of the United States on April 30, 1789.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York City, NY 10003

Admire this neo-Gothic style skyscraper, one of the first in Manhattan.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Jacob Wrey Mould Fountain, 43 Park Row, New York, NY 10038, USA

Can you decode the observational challenge around this grand fountain?

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: New York City Hall, Broadway and Murray St City Hall Park, New York City, NY 10007

See the oldest city hall in the United States, completed in 1812 in the Renaissance style. Learn its history and solve the challenge involving the flags above it.

Duration: 5 minutes

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

A quick view of Brooklyn Bridge

Stop At: Benjamin Franklin Statue, One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038, USA

History of one of America's founding fathers

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 44 Maiden Lane, New York City, NY 10045

Explanation of this neo-renaissance building as you near the end of the scavenger hunt.

Duration: 5 minutes

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

See New York's 2nd city hall, as well as the 1st Capitol of the United States. Can you guess who's statue stands outside?

Duration: 5 minutes

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

Learn the story behind this sculpture, its meaning and how it wound up in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

Duration: 5 minutes

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

Discover the history of this 1903 classic renaissance building and the NYSE founded in 1792.

Duration: 5 minutes