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Since the
city's early days, the seats of New York's federal, state and city government
have been located around City Hall Park, and though many of the original
buildings no longer stand, great examples of the city's finest architecture can
be found here.
While neighboring TriBeCa, to the west, does not hold the
same historical allure, it does feature some of New York's most vibrant
galleries, chic restaurants and bars, and complements a visit to New
York's civic center nicely, especially if you arrive in the evening.
#N or
#R to City Hall, the #6 to Brooklyn Bridge or the #2 or #3 to Park
Place.
Broadway and Park Row form the apex of City Hall Park , a noisy,
pigeon-splattered triangle of green that marks the center of the jumble
of municipal offices and courts. At the park's northern head stands
City Hall (tours available Mon-Fri at 10am, 11am and 2pm;
reservations are required at least two weeks prior; tours are available
only for parties of between 10 and 35 people; admission is free; tel
212/788-6865), whose interior is an elegant meeting of arrogance and
authority, with the sweeping spiral staircase delivering you to the
precise geometry of the Governor's Room. In 1865, Abraham Lincoln's body
lay in state here for 120,000 New Yorkers to file past. Later, after the
city's 1927 feting of the returned aviator Charles Lindbergh, it became
the traditional finishing point for Broadway tickertape parades given
for astronauts, returned hostages and triumphant sports teams.
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This triangular wedge is dotted with statues , not least of which
is one of Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune
newspaper, and in front of whose bronzed countenance a farmer's market
is held each Tuesday and Friday (April-Dec 8am-6pm). Prize position
among the patriotic statues here goes to Nathan Hale who, in
1776, was captured by the British and hanged for spying, but not before
he'd spat out his gloriously and memorably famous last words: "I regret
that I only have but one life to lose for my country."
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