Thank you to everyone who weighed in on station suggestions! I am highly appreciative. It seems like I have a good selection of stations along the South Brooklyn lines, which is always encouraging.
From a quick glance at NYCSubway, I see that besides Chambers on the , Brooklyn Bridge's north end seems to have a surplus of space too, which is encouraging for the . Fortunately my hotel is right near Battery Park so I will have no issues making it to these stations at any time. South Ferry is a known quantity to me and comes with the bonus of not looking like a dungeon, so I'll need to push my camera less to get a good exposure compared to elsewhere.
BTW, can anyone comment on how safe the Staten Island Railway and Dyckman Street/125 St on the are? To answer @BM5 via Woodhaven's question at the same time I am using a Canon SL3 DSLR so I'm slightly more weary of where I go compared to when I was a kid, running around with a dinky P&S camera. Bowling Green should be doable, I think, provided the train is not moving at a high rate of speed, I have more options with this camera compared to what I was running previously.
Looking forward to it, should be a good trip.