Fresh Water Pond Shoreline

Before Wall Street was wall-to-wall commerce, this area held the shoreline of a long-vanished pond and marshy edge of the island. The landscape was gradually filled, redrawn, and paved into a financial center, leaving the original waterline buried under centuries of ambition. It is the sort of place where the city quietly deleted the coast and then forgot to mention it.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY, USA