Manhattan’s Financial District: From the Food to the Landmarks, There’s a Lot More to Do than Make Money

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Text size When the U.S. was new, the southern tip of Manhattan, then mostly forest, was the country’s heart. It was where George Washington gave his inaugural address and where the nation’s first capitol building stood until Alexander Hamilton famously traded rights to the Virginians to absolve states’ debts. Since then, Manhattan’s Financial District has remained a notable place in the cultural conversation as home to some of the world’s most iconic symbols—the urban ring for that famous metal bull, the launch point for the Statue of Liberty, the place where the defining Twin Towers stood, Wall Street. But FiDi,...