26 April 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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The Financial District of
Lower Manhattan , also known as
FiDi , is a
neighborhood located on the southern tip of
Manhattan in
New York City . It is bounded by the
West Side Highway on the west,
Chambers Street and
City Hall Park on the north,
Brooklyn Bridge on the northeast, the
East River to the southeast, and
South Ferry and
the Battery on the south.
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18 March 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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Wall Street is a street in the
Financial District of
Lower Manhattan in
New York City . It runs eight
city blocks between
Broadway in the west and
South Street and the
East River in the east. The term “Wall Street” has become a
metonym for the
financial markets of the United States as a whole, the
American financial services industry , New York–based financial interests, or the Financial District. Anchored by Wall Street, New York has been described as the world’s principal
fintech and
financial center .
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22 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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Nolita, sometimes written as NoLIta and deriving from “North of
Little Italy “, is a neighborhood in the
borough of
Manhattan in
New York City . Nolita is situated in
Lower Manhattan , bounded on the north by
Houston Street , on the east by the
Bowery , on the south roughly by
Broome Street , and on the west by
Lafayette Street . It lies east of
SoHo , south of
NoHo , west of the
Lower East Side , and north of
Little Italy and
Chinatown .
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1 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Berlin , French Riviera , Greater Los Angeles Area , Hamburg , London , Miami / South Florida , New York City , Paris / Île-de-France , San Francisco Bay Area
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LGBT Pride Month is a month, typically June, dedicated to celebration and commemoration of
lesbian ,
gay ,
bisexual , and
transgender (
LGBT )
pride . Pride Month began after the
Stonewall riots , a series of
gay liberation protests in 1969, and has since spread outside of the United States. Modern-day Pride Month both honors the movement for
LGBT rights and celebrates
LGBT culture .
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12 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Hotels , New York City
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5 Beekman Street is a building in the
Financial District of
Manhattan in
New York City , United States. It is composed of the 10-story, 150-foot-tall (46 m)
Temple Court Building and Annex (also known as
Temple Court ) and a connected 51-story, 687-foot-tall (209 m)
condominium tower called the
Beekman Residences , which contains 68 residential units. The 287-unit
The Beekman, a Thompson Hotel , also known as
The Beekman Hotel , occupies all three structures.
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29 December 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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Lower Manhattan (also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York) is the southernmost part of
Manhattan , the central
borough for business, culture, and
government in
New York City , which is the most populated city in the United States with over 8.8 million residents as of the
2020 census . Lower Manhattan is defined most commonly as the area delineated on the north by
14th Street , on the west by the
Hudson River , on the east by the
East River , and on the south by
New York Harbor . The Lower Manhattan business district, known as the
Financial District (FiDi), forms the main core of the area below
Chambers Street . It is a leading global center for commerce, housing
Wall Street , the
New York Stock Exchange , and the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York .
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17 August 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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The Titanic Memorial is a 60-foot-tall (18 m)
lighthouse at
Fulton and
Pearl Streets in the
Financial District of
Lower Manhattan in
New York City . It was built, due in part to the instigation of
Margaret Brown , to remember the people who died on the
RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Its design incorporates the use of a
time ball .
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17 January 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre (39,500 m²) public park in the
Greenwich Village neighborhood of
Lower Manhattan ,
New York City . One of the best known of New York City’s
public parks , it is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. It is operated by the
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks).
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11 September 2021 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions , New York City
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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated
terrorist attacks by the
Wahhabi Islamist terrorist group
Al-Qaeda against the
United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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