Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan (or downtown Manhattan or just Downtown) is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan in the American metropolis of New York City. Downtown is bordered by the north by Midtown, which in turn is located south of Uptown.

The district is the center of the financial world of New York City and adjacent to the Hudson, to the East River and north to 14th Street. Full Lower Manhattan and especially the Financial District is crossed by thoroughfares in north-south and east-west direction. The Lower Manhattan Business Center is the core beneath the Chamber Street. The area is known mainly through the Financial District and the former World Trade Center. The Battery Park and the South Street Seaport are (two more historical areas of the district ) on the southern tip. The Lower Manhattan Business Destrict is to midtown Manhattan, Chicago's Loop, and Washington DC the fourth largest financial center in the United States.

After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, in which the two towers of the World Trade Center collapsed, Lower Manhattan lost such a large business area as compared to the entire city of Cincinnati is applied. Since its topping-out ceremony in May 2013, the One World Trade Center, which is part of the new World Trade Center, with a height of 541 meters, by far the highest building in Lower Manhattan. After the attacks of 2001, was still the 290 -meter-high 70 Pine Street is the tallest building in Lower Manhattan.

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