New York & the Mid-Atlantic Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

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The Walk » City Hall is dead center down Broad

St; it’s visible the entire way. Entering from the south

portal, look for the keystone sculpture of Moses.

City Hall

The majestic 548-ft tall City Hall sits in

the center of the original orderly city

between the Delaware and Schuykill

Rivers. Standing at the intersection

of Market and Broad Sts, the avenues

shoot out in plumb-straight lines.

It was the world’s tallest occupied

building until 1909 and the tallest in

Philly until 1987. Check out the 250

sculptures including a 37-ft tall, 27-ton

statue of William Penn on the top.

The Walk » Walk through the east-side portal;

look for the Benjamin Franklin keystone. Tower and

building tours leave from here. The two-block stretch

of Market St isn’t the prettiest; turn left at 12th.

Reading Terminal Market

Housed in the railroad terminal since

1892 and renovated in the 1990s, the

Reading Terminal Market (%215-922-

2317; http://www.readingterminalmarket.org; 51 N 12th

St; h8am-5:30pm Mon-Sat, 9am-4pm Sun)

is a bustling cornucopia of cuisines,

crowded with tourists and locals at

lunchtime. The market has everything:

cheesesteaks, Amish crafts, regional

specialties, ethnic eats, top-quality

butchers, produce, cheese, flowers,

bakeries and more.

The Walk » Head west on Arch until you reach

JFK Plaza and Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture.

Good food trucks congregate here at lunchtime.

Comcast Center

An entrance to this skyscraper, the

tallest in the city, leads into a massive

all-glass atrium. On the back wall is the

world’s largest high-definition screen.

It’s always on, displaying curious,

sometimes trompe l’oeil images.

The Walk » Walking south on 17th you’ll pass a

Lichtenstein sculpture and several hotels. Go right

on Sansom for a block of nice little boutiques and

then left on 18th or 19th to return to Rittenhouse

Square.