Seaport District

The Seaport District exists because of a massive engineering feat that began in the seventeenth century. New York City was not originally this wide at the waterfront. Merchants and the Dutch West India Company systematically created new land by selling water lots to investors, who were then required to fill in the riverbed with dirt and debris at their own expense. This man-made foundation pushed the shoreline three blocks further into the East River than it sat in the earliest colonial days. Continue