New York

New York — Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan contains several cities on the same few acres: Lenape homeland, Dutch New Amsterdam, British colonial port, slave-trading city, first U.S. capital, immigrant gateway, financial center and the landscape remade after September 11. This route reads those layers together, correcting the tidy “$24 purchase” story and restoring slavery and dispossession to early New York.

Stories in New York — Lower Manhattan

Castle ClintonAudio available
Bowling Green and the Site of Fort AmsterdamAudio available
Fraunces TavernAudio available
Wall Street and the Colonial Slave MarketAudio available
Federal HallAudio available
Trinity ChurchAudio available
National September 11 MemorialAudio available
African Burial Ground National MonumentAudio available
City Hall and Brooklyn Bridge ApproachAudio available
South Street SeaportAudio available