Downtown Manhattan Districts

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Chinatown and Civic Center
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New York City's Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in the United States. Chinatown has hundreds of restaurants, booming fruit and fish markets and shops of knickknacks and sweets.
The Civic Center is anchored by City Hall, a landmark building which has been the seat of City government for 186 years.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. Museum of Chinese in the Americas - 70 Mulberry Street at Bayard
2. Confucius Plaza - Bowery
3. Buddhist Temple - Bowery & Temple Street
4. Church of the Transfiguration - Mott & Pell Street
5. Chinatown Fair - Mott Street & Chatham Square
6. First Chinese Presbyterian Church - Market & Henry Street
7. City Hall Park, City Hall and Tweed Courthouse - Broadway and Chambers
8. Municipal Building - 1 Centre Street
9. Foley Square and U.S. Courthouse - Centre Street & St. Andrews Place
10. Woolworth Building - Park Place & Broadway
11. St. Paul's Chapel - Fulton Street & Broadway

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SoHo and Little Italy
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SoHo is the area south of Houston and north of Canal Street on the west side of Manhattan (map). It is famous for the galleries and shops lining its narrow streets.

Little Italy, centered around Mulberry Street from Spring Street to Canal Street in Manhattan, is packed with New York's best Italian restaurants and cafes. more...

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. Alternative Museum - Broadway & West Houston Street
2. New Museum of Contemporary Art - Broadway bet. W. Houston & Prince Street
3. Guggenheim SoHo - Broadway & Prince Street
4. Haughwout Building - Broadway & Broome Street
5. Artists Space - Grand Street & Greene Street

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Lower East Side
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The Lower East Side, a neighborhood built by immigrants throughout history, is south of the East Village and east of SoHo. This area once housed African Americans freed from slavery, immigrants from Ireland during the potato famines, Jews, Germans, Southern Italians and many more seeking better lives for their families.

Orchard Street is a great place to find bargains on clothing and shoes; nearby Grand has bargain linens and housewares.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. Hamilton Fish Park - East Houston Street & Avenue C
2. Lower East Side Tenement Museum - Broome & Orchard Street
3. Seward Park - Canal & Essex Street
4. Eldridge St. Synagogue - Canal & Eldridge Street

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Greenwich Village and NoHo
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Greenwich Village is an area from 14th Street to Houston Street in Manhattan. In the early decades of the 20th century the word got around that The Village was the place to live "the free life" as it was then called. It is now home to Washington Square Park and NYU. NoHo is a newly designated historic district famous for its up-and-coming fashion designers and artists.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. New School of Social Research - 11th Street & Avenue of the Americas
2. Church of the Ascension - 10th Street & Fifth Avenue
3. Jefferson Market Library - Christopher Street & Greenwich Avenue
4. Northern Dispensary - Seventh Avenue South & Christopher Street
5. Cooper Union - Astor Place & Third Avenue
6. Washington Square and Washington Arch - 5th Ave and 6th Street
7. Provincetown Playhouse - 3rd Street & Sixth Avenue
8. St. Luke's Chapel - Hudson Street & Grove Street
9. Grove Court - Grove Street & Bedford Street
10. Cherry Lane Theater - Bedford Street & Com

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East Village
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The East Village, from about 14th Street to Houston Street on the east side of Manhattan, is the place to go for any tattoos, piercings or crazy hair colors you've been wanting; this also makes it an ideal spot for people-watching.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. Astor Place / St. Mark's Place - 8th Street
2. Strand Bookstore - 12th Street & Broadway
3. St. Mark's in the Bowery Church - 11th Street & Second Avenue
4. Grace Church - 10th Street & Broadway
5. Second Avenue Deli - 10th Street & Second Avenue
6. Cooper Union - Astor Place & Third Avenue
7. Tompkins Square Park - 9th Street and Avenue A
8. Joseph Papp Public Theater - Astor Place & Lafayette Street
9. Tower Records - 4th Street & Broadway
10. CBGB's - Bond Street & Fourth Avenue
11. Anthology Film Archives - 1st Street & Second Avenue
12. Puck Building - East Houston Street & Lafayette Street

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Tribeca
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Short for "triangle below Canal", Tribeca is the area south of Soho in Manhattan bounded by Canal on the north, Broadway on the east, Barclay on the south and the Hudson River on the west. Originally farmland, Tribeca became a central transfer point for textiles and dry goods in the mid 1800s.

In the 1960's, the Washington Market Urban Renewal Project transformed the area from commercial to residential by replacing the industrial buildings with apartment houses, office buildings and schools. Between 1970 and 1980, the population of TriBeCa jumped from 243 to 5,101. Today, Tribeca features numerous galleries, stores and fine restaurants.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. Clocktower Gallery - Broadway & Leonard St
2. Washington Market Park - bounded by Greenwich, Chambers and West Sts
3. Manhattan Community College - Chambers St & North Moore St
4. Tribeca Film Center - 375 Greenwich Street

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Gramercy
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Gramercy is roughly an area in Manhattan from 30th Street to 14th Street east of 5th Avenue. The Gramercy Park Historic District is from 18th to 21st Streets between Park Avenue South and Third Avenue.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. Gramercy Park - 21st Street & Lexington Avenue
2. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace - 19th Street & Broadway
3. "The Block Beautiful" - 19th Street btwn. Irving Place and Third Avenue
4. Union Square Park - 17th Street & Broadway
5. Stuyvesant Square - 16th Street & Second Avenue
6. Palladium - 14th Street & Irving Place

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Financial District
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The Financial District is an area at the southern tip of Manhattan. Major sights include South Street Seaport, Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange, Battery Park, Trinity Church and the Woolworth Building.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. South Street Seaport - Fulton Street & South Street
2. South Street Seaport Museum - 207 Front Street
3. Fulton Fish Market - Fulton Street & South Street
4. World Financial Center - 200 Liberty Street
5. Battery Park City - West of West Street below Chambers Street
6. Castle Clinton National Monument - 26 Wall Street
7. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Ferry Terminal
Purchase ferry tickets at Castle Clinton (above)
8. Museum of Jewish Heritage - 18 First Place
9. National Museum of the American Indian - One Bowling Green
10. Trinity Church - Broadway & Wall Street
11. New York Stock Exchange - Wall Street & Nassau Street
12. Staten Island Ferry Terminal - Whitehall Street and South Street

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Chelsea
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Chelsea is an area in Lower Manhattan west of Park Avenue from about 30th Street to about 14th Street which includes the Flatiron District.

Major Sights in geographical order:

1. Chelsea Hotel - 23rd Street bet Seventh & Eighth Avenues
2. Chelsea Piers - 23rd Street at the Hudson River
3. Flatiron Building - 23rd Street and 5th Ave
4. Madison Square Park - 25th Street at Madison Ave
5. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace - 19th Street & Broadway
6. Union Square - 14th Street to 16th Street from Park to Madison