Financial District

BY NATALIA PARUZForgotten New York guest post HIDDEN in plain sight, just steps from the bustling main doors of Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, lies a piece of…

OLD Slip, one of lower Manhattan’s “slip” streets indicating former boat landings or “slips” was first encountered on maps in 1691. This Slip was the site of a momentous event…

BROADWAY begins at Battery Place and Bowling Green and runs as a continuous road, much of it NY State Route #9, almost all the way to the Canadian border. In…

HERE’S a photo of the webmaster and my good friend, Doctor of Theology and author Dawn Eden Goldstein, in a 2007 outing in front of James Leeson’s gravestone in Trinity…

BOWLING GREEN is still mapped as a street, a short connector between Broadway and Whitehall Street just east of Battery Park. Its adjoining triangle park, featuring the Delacorte Fountain, is…

MARKETFIELD Street is one of the city’s few L-shaped routes, proceeding from Broad Street opposite #75 and then doglegging west and north to Beaver and New Streets. Nothing to write home…

SORRY to say I have never been inside the Pearl Diner #212 Pearl at Fletcher Street, as I usually don’t find myself in the crowded Financial District during the week.…

THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…

I recently revisited Beaver Street, downtown in the financial district. One of Manhattan’s oldest streets was named very early on, in the 1660s, and commemorates the paddle-tailed, dam-building, aquatic rodent…

HERE’S the front doorway of #5-#7 Ten Eyck Street at Union Avenue. Ten Eyck Street runs in three pieces in East Williamsburg, through the Williamsburg Houses, where it’s reduced to…

I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…

TWO decades ago while meandering about  in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…