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16 Woolworth Building
NOTABLE BUILDING
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The world's tallest building upon completion in 1913, Cass Gilbert's 792ft-tall Woolworth
Building is a neo-Gothic marvel, clad in masonry and terracotta, its landmarked lobby a
spectacle of dazzling Byzantine-like mosaics. The lobby is only accessible on prebooked
guided tours, which also offer insight into the building's more curious original features,
among them a subway entrance and a secret swimming pool. ( http://woolworthtours.com ; 233
Broadway at Park Pl; 30/90min tours $15/45;
R to City Hall, 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall)
17 African Burial Ground
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In 1991, construction workers here uncovered over 400 stacked wooden caskets, just 16ft
to 28ft below street level. The boxes contained the remains of enslaved Africans (nearby
Trinity Church graveyard had banned the burial of Africans at the time). Today, a memori-
al and visitors center honors an estimated 15,000 Africans buried here during the 17th and
18th centuries. ( www.nps.gov/afbg ; 290 Broadway btwn Duane & Elk Sts; admission free;
MEMORIAL
memorial
9am-5pm daily, visitor center 10am-4pm Tue-Sat;
4/5 to Wall St)
Understand
Buying Manhattan
In 1624, the Dutch West India Company sent 110 settlers to begin a trading post in present-day New York City.
They settled in Lower Manhattan and called their colony New Amsterdam, touching off bloody battles with the
unshakable Lenape tribe. It all came to a head in 1626, when the colony's first governor, Peter Minuit, became
the city's first - but certainly not the last - unscrupulous real estate agent by purchasing Manhattan's 14,000
acres from the Lenape for 60 guilders ($24) and some glass beads.
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