Local Attractions
The New York Academy of Sciences is located in the heart of Lower Manhattan, home to many historic buildings, monuments and sitesof interest. These include:
- The World Trade Center site and memorial, directly adjacent to the New York Academy of Sciences conference space
- South Ferry, embarkation point for ferries to Liberty Island (and the Statue of Liberty), Ellis Island, and Staten Island
- The historic Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated as the nation's first president
- Trinity Church, home of the remains of Alexander Hamilton, William Bradford, Robert Fulton, Captain James Lawrence, Albert Gallatin, and others
- Castle Garden, originally the fort , a circular sandstone fort and national monument at Battery Park
- Fraunces Tavern, a restaurant and museum where General George Washington bid farewell to his officers at the end of the Revolutionary War
- City Hall, seat of the New York City government and the Mayor's office. Official receptions in the Governor's room have hosted many dignitaries, including the Marquis de Lafayette and Albert Einstein
- Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by volume
- The renovated original mercantile buildings and sailing ships of the South Street Seaport
- Bowling Green, the oldest existing public park in New York City and the location of the Charging Bull bronze sculpture, located next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam
- The old Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House, now the National Museum of the American Indian
- The Brooklyn Bridge
- Many of New York City's most spectacular skyscrapers, including the Woolworth Building, 40 Wall Street (the Trump Building), the Standard Oil Building, and the American International Building
The "Charging Bull" in Bowling Green, New York
