Lower Manhattan

Parks & gardens

The Battery

Lower Manhattan

The Battery is a public park at the southern tip of Manhattan, on land largely created by landfill over the site of the seventeenth-century shore battery that gives it its name. It is managed by New York City Parks with the Battery Conservancy.

Civic & heritage

Federal Hall National Memorial

Lower Manhattan

Federal Hall National Memorial is a Greek Revival building of 1842 at 26 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, built as the United States Custom House. It stands on the site of the earlier Federal Hall where George Washington was inaugurated in 1789, and is administered by the National Park Service.

Religious sites

Trinity Church

Lower Manhattan

Trinity Church stands at the head of Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. The present Gothic Revival building by Richard Upjohn was consecrated in 1846 and its churchyard holds burials from the seventeenth century onward.

Religious sites

St. Paul's Chapel

Lower Manhattan

St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan, completed in 1766, and served as a relief centre for recovery workers after the September 11 attacks.

Museums & galleries

Museum of Jewish Heritage

Lower Manhattan

The Museum of Jewish Heritage stands in Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan and serves as New York's memorial museum to the Holocaust, in a six-sided building of 1997 by Kevin Roche.

Museums & galleries

The Skyscraper Museum

Lower Manhattan

The Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City is devoted to the study of high-rise buildings, presenting the history and engineering of tall construction in New York and elsewhere.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Museums & galleries

Tenement Museum

Lower Manhattan

The Tenement Museum on Orchard Street presents the histories of migrant families who lived in two Lower East Side tenement buildings between the 1860s and the 2000s, seen on guided tours of restored apartments.

Architecture & design

Woolworth Building

Lower Manhattan

The Woolworth Building is a Gothic Revival skyscraper of 1913 on Broadway in Lower Manhattan by Cass Gilbert, the tallest building in the world on completion and a National Historic Landmark.

Waterfront

Pier 17 and the Seaport

Lower Manhattan

Pier 17 is a rebuilt pier structure on the East River at the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan, with a public rooftop overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge.

Wellness & fitness

AIRE Ancient Baths

Lower Manhattan

AIRE Ancient Baths occupies a nineteenth-century textile warehouse on Franklin Street in Tribeca, converted into a thermal bath house with pools at several temperatures.