South Street Seaport
— — the masts the city kept.
Not only on a wall.
“The block of cobblestone and brick along Fulton and South Streets in Lower Manhattan, where Manhattan's oldest surviving commercial blocks meet the East River. The masts of the iron sailing ship Wavertree still rise above the slip at Pier 16. Pier 17 looks across to the Brooklyn waterfront and up at the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge. The South Street Seaport Museum has been the keeper of all of it since 1967.
South Street Seaport, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The South Street Seaport is a historic district at the southeastern edge of Lower Manhattan, occupying eleven blocks along the East River between the Brooklyn Bridge and Pier 11. Its cobblestone streets — Fulton, Front, Water, and South — date to the early nineteenth century, when the slips along South Street made New York the busiest port in the Atlantic world. The district was designated a New York City Historic District in 1977 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The South Street Seaport Museum, founded in 1967, manages the historic vessels and several Schermerhorn Row buildings.
The Schermerhorn Row block on Fulton Street, built by ship-chandler Peter Schermerhorn between 1810 and 1812, is the architectural heart of the district — a continuous run of Federal-style brick counting-houses with granite ground floors. Across South Street, the masts of the Wavertree, an 1885 iron-hulled sailing ship, frame the slip at Pier 16. The four-masted barque Peking sat at the museum dock for decades before returning to Hamburg in 2017. The cobbles underfoot are Belgian block, laid in the 1830s. The whole district sits below the Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883.
The Seaport's streets are open at all hours; the museum building at 12 Fulton Street keeps its own seasonal schedule, and the historic ships at Pier 16 are visited by ticket. The Pier 17 deck on the East River is a free public space with a clear view across to the Brooklyn waterfront and the underside of the bridge. The nearest subway is Fulton Street, four blocks inland, served by the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, and Z lines. The Staten Island Ferry terminal at Whitehall sits a fifteen-minute walk to the south.