New York - Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan runs from the tip of Manhattan up to East 30th Street at Fifth Avenue. It includes Battery Park, Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and SoHo.
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Bowery Poetry Club
The Bowery Poetry Club is housed in a Dutch Colonial building that was completed in 1850. Founded in 2002, it provides a location for established and upcoming artists offering theatre, literary readings, and music.
Holland Tunnel
The Holland Tunnel was the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel, it opened in 1927. Considered an outstanding engineering achievement, whose principles are employed to this day, the facility was cited as a National Historic Civil and Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 1984. Drivers can enter the Holland Tunnel just above Canal street on the west side of Manhattan Island, and it brings them to the eastern edge of New Jersey.
Little Italy
Little Italy was the first stop for many southern Italian immigrants who came to America in the late nineteenth-century. They lived in overcrowded squalor. Today, it is a lively place to shop and dine. The most exciting time to visit is mid-September during the Feast of San Gennaro which pays tribute to the saint with parades, dancing, and food.
Old St Patrick's Cathedral
Old St. Patrick's Cathedral is one of New York's oldest churches, dating back to 1809. The choir loft houses a historic organ built in 1852. Below the church are vaults containing famous New Yorkers such as the restaurateurs, the Delmonicos and Pierre Toussaint, now considered for sainthood by the Vatican.
Old St Patrick's Cathedral
263 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10012
United States
263 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10012
United States
Phone 1 (212) 226-8075
Fax 1 (212) 226-1219
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