Financial District, Wall Street Looking East From Broad Street

Mary Sargent © 2007 …….. click to enlarge

On the Fourth of July last year, I took a similar shot looking down at Trinity Church, but it had a different look.

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Financial District, Wall Street Between William and Broad Streets

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Here's Tiffany & Co., right here on Wall Street. When I saw it, I assumed that it had been here forever and I just didn't know, but it turns out they opened here in October 2007, not so long ago. Don't worry, all you Upper East Side jewelry addicts; the Fifth Avenue store is still there.

However, the company did start out here, just around the corner on Broadway, in 1837. Read all about their new building and what they did to it in this New York Times article. As often happens, when I came home and read about where I was, I wish I'd gone inside. Well, it's because I didn't know. I just thought it was boring old Tiffany's and all the beauty was on the outside.

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Financial District, Wall Street Between William and Broad Streets

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Today I had the luxury of being able to choose anywhere in Manhattan for a photowalk since there was no place else I had to go. I had various considerations in mind, like where have I not been for a while (or ever), spots on my map I want to tidy up, adding a new street to the labels column (what everyone else on the web calls tags), bare spots on the map I want to make a mark in. What I finally decided was to go as far as I could. So I took the 3 train down to Wall Street, not forgetting a thick book.

And now I'm sorry to say, I'm going to start on a cranky note. Have you figured out what you're looking at in that photograph?

Here's a long shot.

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Couldn't they figure out a nicer way to keep people from camping out in their nook? Plants, maybe?

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Financial District, Wall Street Between Front and South Streets

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We're getting close to the river now and the wind is blowing hard.

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Financial District, Wall Street, Between Hanover and Pearl Streets

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Does your neighborhood shoe repair shop reside in a building this distingushed? Mine most definitely does not.

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Financial District, Wall Street Between William and Hanover Streets

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This photograph is NOT about the man in black.

Financial District, Wall Street Between William and Broad Streets

Mary Sargent © 2007 …….. click to enlarge


Bill is visiting and today after lunch at Turkuaz with some friends, he and I went on a photowalk in the Financial District, thinking it was somehow festive and in the spirit of the holiday.

It did get us out of the Upper West Side. So here's a vaguely Fourth of July photograph, looking East at Trinity Church. See the smidgen of American flag?

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