Financial District, Manhattan.
The Financial District has been one of my favorite spots in Manhattan since I was really little. I remember walking around pretending I was in the Gotham City of Batman. Not much has changed as an adult. I still refer to the Financial District as Gotham.
In terms of atmosphere, Batman writer and editor Dennis O’Neil has said that, figuratively, “Batman’s Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November. - From here.
The streets are narrow, the architecture is beautiful and the buildings cast the most amazing shadows.
Stone Street. Financial District, Manhattan. This is the first paved street in New York City.
Stone Street, the narrow, cobblestone alley first developed by Dutch colonists in the 1600s, rests with unassuming charm among the concrete canyons of skyscrapers and multi-tier parking garages of the Financial District. With its two neat rows of picturesque, mostly low-rise brick buildings, dotted by zigzagging fire escapes and old-fashioned black lighting fixtures, the centuries-old pathway recalls the magic and ambience of nineteenth century New York.
It’s one of my favorite streets in the Financial District. It’s been a historic district since the mid 1990s.
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