Downtown Manhattan was the site of the nation’s first capital.

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Under the Dutch, Wall Street - where there really was a wall - was the real estate city limit.

Author Jack London once lived as a hobo in City Hall Park.

Federal Hall National Memorial real estate was the site of George Washington’s first inauguration.

The New York Stock Exchange is the world’s largest real estate exchange.

New York City’s first theater was on Beaver Street.

Castle Clinton was built to defend he harbor against the British during the War of 1812.

Downtown real estate’s only remaining philately business has been here over 65 years.

St. Paul’s Chapel is Manhattan’s oldest public building in continuous use.

Bowling Green is the oldest park in New York City.

Castle Clinton has functioned as an opera house, an aquarium, and a gateway for over 8 million immigrants.

The New York real estate Exchange has an annual trading volume of $5.5 billion.

46% of leisure visitors to Downtown come from outside the United States.

When built, 120 Broadway’s Equitable Building cast a 7-acre shadow, leading to the creation of zoning setback laws.

200 ticker-tape parades have taken place in Lower-Broadway’s ‘Canyon of Heroes.

In 1664, the city’s tallest real estate structure was a 2-story windmill.

Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton are buried in the Trinity Church graveyard.

Legend has it that Peter Minuit paid $24 in trinkets to purchase the island of Manhattan real estate from Leni Lenape Indians at Bowling Green.

The vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank on Maiden Lane store more than one-quarter of the world’s gold bullion.

The Woolworth Building - the ‘Cathedral of Commerce’ - was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1929.

Without firing a shot, the British seized control of Nieuwe Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664 and renamed it New York City.

Downtown was the shipping capital of the world in the 19th century.

The first ticker-tape parade celebrated the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886.

Broadway began as an Algonquin trade route called the Wiechquaekeck Trail.

Master architect Cass Gilbert designed six Downtown real estate buildings including the US Custom House at One Bowling Green.

A 7,000-pound bronze ‘Charging Bull’ mysteriously appeared one day in 1989 in front of the New York Stock Exchange - the bull is now at Bowling Green.

From 1892 to 1924, 12 million immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island.

The Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to be lit using electricity.

The New York Stock Exchange began in 1792 when 24 brokers met under a buttonwood tree facing 68 Wall Street.

On completion, the Brooklyn Bridge was the world’s longest suspension bridge and the city’s tallest structure.

The trading area of the New York real estate Stock Exchange is about two-thirds the size of a football field.

The New York Mercantile Exchange began as the Butter and Cheese Exchange in the 1750s.

J.P. Morgan’s former apartment on the 31st floor in 14 Wall Street is now home to a popular french restaurant.

Washington Irving, the great American writer, was born in 1783 at 131 William Street.

When it built its headquarters at 26 Broadway, Standard Oil Company was the largest U.S. corporation and its founder, John D. Rockefeller, was the wealthiest person in the world.

Phillippe Petit walked a tightrope between the rooftops of the World Trade Center towers in 1974.

The northern façade of City Hall was left unfinished when the building was erected in 1803 - no one foresaw that the city would expand beyond Downtown.