Whitehall Street
The southernmost block, adjacent to the Whitehall Ferry Terminal, provides access from FDR Drive to the Battery.
[6] During the Dutch colonial era, part of the street was known as Markvelt or Marckvelt,[7][8] though the name seems to have only applied to the northern portion.
[8] Under the leadership of British colonial governor Edmund Andros, a large semicircular wood-and-stone fortification was built at the southern end of the modern Whitehall Street.
[27] At the northeast corner of Whitehall and Stone Streets is 2 Broadway, a 32-story tower designed by Emery Roth & Sons and built in 1958–1959.
[28][31] At the southeastern corner of the same intersection, the 23-story structure at 1 Whitehall Street was completed in 1962, also to designs by Emery Roth & Sons.
Completed in 1907 to designs by Cass Gilbert, it originally served as the Custom House for the Port of New York.
[40] The damage was superficial[38] and, in 1986, it was repurposed as a glass-skinned condominium with retail space, ten additional floors, and the alternate address of 3 New York Plaza.
[43] The 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) pavilion, in the shape of a flower, was designed by the Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos,[44] and features radiating bars of LEDs; it is both a café and a visitors center.
The stone plaza is a landscaped platform ("plein" in Dutch) with benches of modern design, walkways with engraved passages from Russell Shorto's The Island at the Center of the World, about the founding of Manhattan, and a map of the Castello Plan of New Amsterdam from 1660, carved in stone.
Post and completed in 1884, was the first building in the world to combine wrought iron and masonry in its structural construction.
Custom House was the site of Fort Amsterdam, constructed by the Dutch West India Company to defend their operations in the Hudson Valley.
[52] Near the foot of the street is the site of the Governor's house built by Peter Stuyvesant, now long demolished.
[14][15] On the Castello Plan of 1660, Whitehall, with its white roof, stands on a jutting piece of land at Manhattan's tip, facing along the waterfront strand that extends along the East River.
The only extensive pleasure gardens in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam are seen to extend behind it, laid out in a patterned parterre of four squares.
The original Whitehall Terminal served Brooklyn, Governors Island, Staten Island, and Jersey City, New Jersey, and it contained connections to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company's elevated train lines at South Ferry station.
[58] The Battery Maritime Building, housing the ferry to Governors Island, is just east of the Whitehall Terminal.
[64] The former military induction center at 39 Whitehall Street was featured in Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant".
