Sightseeing Spot
City Hall Park
Originally used as a sheep meadow, this green spot was known in colonial times as the Fields or the Common. It went on to become a graveyard for the impoverished, the site of an almshouse, and then the home of the notorious Bridewell jail before it became a park. Even as a park, the locale was far from peaceful: it hosted hangings, riots, and political demonstrations. A bronze statue of patriot Nathan Hale, who was hanged in 1776 as a spy by the British troops occupying New York City, stands facing City Hall.
Address : Bordered by Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers St
URL : http://www.nycgovparks.org/.../park_info.php?propID=M013
Subway : 4/5/6 Line Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall
City Hall
"This landmark building has been home to 57 mayoral administrations and has been the seat of City government for 186 years," said Mayor Giuliani. "City Hall is one of the City's most enduring and distinguished structures." Built between 1803 and 1812, City Hall was recently restored and renovated. School Groups of 13 or more can visit the Governor's Room, which was used for ceremonies and now offers historical documents and furniture, and the blue room, where the mayor holds all of his press conferences. There are video machines outside and tons of printed material to help you find your way around the surrounding neighborhood. Location: City Hall Park, Broadway and Chambers. Take the N or R to City Hall or the 2 or 3 to Park Place.
Address : Broadway at Murray St
URL : http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/
Subway : N/R Line City Hall, 4/5/6 Line Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall
Columbus Park
Mornings bring groups of elderly Chinese practicing the graceful movements of tai chi to this shady space. During the afternoons the tables fill for heated games of mah-jongg. In the mid-19th century, the swampy area was known as the Five Points -- after the intersection of Mulberry Street, Anthony (now Worth) Street, Cross (now Park) Street, Orange (now Baxter) Street, and Little Water Street (no longer in existence) -- and was notoriously ruled by dangerous Irish gangs. In the 1880s a neighborhood-improvement campaign brought about the park's creation.
Address : Baxter, Mulberry, Bayard and Worth Sts
URL : http://www.nycgovparks.org/.../park_info.php?propID=M015
Subway : N/Q/R/W/6 Line Canal St.
Confusious Plaza
The Confucius Plaza housing development was the focal point of a battle for equal rights in 1974. Its builder refused to hire Chinese laborers, claiming they were too weak for construction work. Pressure from a volunteer group called Asian Americans for Equality resulted in the hiring of 27 minority workers, including many Asian immigrants. As a token of appreciation and to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial in 1976, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association presented the city with a 15-foot-tall, dark green granite statue of Confucius to place on the site.
Subway : 4/5/6 Line Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, J/M/Z Line Chambers St
Chatham Square
Chatham Square has seven roads leading into it. The arch at Chatham Square was erected in memory to all Chinese Americans who fought and gave their lives in defense of freedom and democracy. The arch was named for 2nd Lt. Benjamin Ralph Kimlau, a World War II aircraft commander of the 530th Squadron. The statue in the background is Lin Ze Xu (Lin Tse-hsu), the Qing Dynasty official who was sent to Canton to stop imperialists from forcing opium onto China in 1839. Events of which led to the Opium War, the Treaty of Nanjing, and the ceding of Hong Kong to Britain. 06 Mar 2002.
URL : http://www.nychinatown.org/chatham.html
Subway : 4/5/6 Line Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, J/M/Z Line Chambers St
Church of Transfiguration
New York's oldest house of worship for Catholics has a saint to its credit. In 1801 the English-speaking descendants of German Lutheran emigres spent $15,000 to build a substantial stone church, before it passed into the hands of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The church was purchased by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1853; Father Felix Varela, a Cuban-born pioneer of Catholic journalism, had founded the parish in 1827. Mother Frances Cabrini, named "Saint of All Immigrants" in the 1950s by Pope Pius XII, established a school at the Transfiguration Parish in 1899.
Address: 29 Mott St
Subway: J/M/Z Line Chambers St
Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA)
The Museum of Chinese in the Americas is the first museum dedicated to show the history and culture of Chinese people immigrated in the Western World. MoCA is located downtown in the middle of Chinatown, on the second floor of the historic, century-old school building which was once Public School 23. Now as Chinatown begins to recover from the disaster of September 11th, MoCA envisions itself to be the cultural and historical cornerstone, curator, educator, exhibitor and research center of not only Manhattan's Chinatown, but for all Chinese of many nationalities located in the Americas.
Address : 70 Mulberry St
URL : http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp
Subway : J/M/Z Line Canal St
Hours : 12:00-6:00pm
Admission : $3.00
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