The Financial District of New York City is a neighbourhood on the southernmost of Manhattan comprising the offices and headquarters of many of the city’s major financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange. There was once home to the World Trade Centre until the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The area’s major sights include South Street Seaport, Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange, Battery Park, Trinity Church and the Woolworth Building. It is also one of the American Heritage centre sits several historical sites e.g. South Street Seaport Museum, Museum of Jewish Heritage, National Museum of the American Indian or the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian dedicating to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of them.
