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Recreate the Most Requested Walking Tour of 1840s New York 20% OFF
New York City, New York, USA
$47.20
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
The 2.5-hour walking tour begins at the Public Theater in Astor Place, a historic site across from Colonnade Row. This journey takes you from the elite residences of the 1830s to the infamous Five Points neighborhood known from "Gangs of New York".
- 🏛️ Start at the ruins of Colonnade Row, where you'll learn about the early 1830s elite residences and the historical significance of this landmark.
- 🏙️ Walk down Broadway while decoding the streetscape, exploring how architectural styles and building sizes evolved over time.
- 📸 Discover the evolution of SoHo through historical images and narratives about the lives of those who once walked these streets.
- 🏢 Appreciate Louis Sullivan's only building in New York City, gaining insight into its role in the development of skyscraper architecture.
- 🗺️ Visit the site at Houston Street and Broadway, where the ancient geography reveals the origins of the city's grid system.
- 🔍 Learn about the name "SoHo," a term only used since the 1950s, and how this area was referred to in different historical contexts.
- 📖 Enjoy stories and characters from a bygone era as you walk down to Canal Street, uncovering layers of social and retail history.
- 🏞️ Conclude at Columbus Park, located at the historic site of The Five Points, and reflect on the stark contrast between the tour's beginning and end.
- 👤 Professional guide included to enhance your experience with expert insights and engaging narratives.
- 💼 Gratuities are included for your convenience, ensuring a seamless experience.
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Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
- Professional guide
- Gratuities
Meeting point
We meet inside the Public Theater, New York's first public library. (Bathrooms are available)
Return details
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The Public TheaterWe start at the ruins of Colonnade Row, the early 1830s residence in the country's elite. We will lay the groundwork of history and the forces that passed through a landmark location of many histories. What's most to be appreciated is the high ground setting of once was a pleasure garden when "the city" was far downtown.
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NohoWe walk down Broadway and decode the streetscape making sense of history through the buildings, noticing their styles, and sizes, and how they may have been adapted (and re-adapted) for re-use. Images from the past show the evolution of the SoHo section of Broadway. What went on before the fashionable shops and the artists gallery before them? Who were the people who walked the sidewalks?
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We stop to appreciate Louis Sullivan's only building in the city, and learn its role in the evolution of the skyscraper style.
- At Houston Street and Broadway the ancient geography makes it apparent in the asphalt why the grid began here. It was an early site of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, and an upper class residential neighborhood. The tour continues through SoHo, a name place only since the 1950s, which begs the question, how did people refer to this part of town at different times in the past? We go down Broadway with explanations, descriptions, and images that deconstruct of the streetscape and reveal the brick-and-mortar history of New York City. (pass by)
- The walk down to Canal Street is a roster of social and retail history, with stories and characters from a by-gone era. (pass by)
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Foley SquareToday's Civic Center was a lake, the shore of which had been the African Burial Ground through much of the British colonial period. The lake would be filled in, and along its old shoreline would develop The Five Points, the most notorious slum in New York City history.
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Columbus ParkThe tour ends at the location of The Five Points, now 500 Pearl Street. From the high historical social standing of the beginning of the tour, we end where the most long-lived desperate and deplorable living conditions once existed, from the Irish (and The Five Points), through the tenements of Mulberry Bend, the area is now at the border of the Court District and Chinatown.
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Recreate the Most Requested Walking Tour of 1840s New York 20% OFF
New York City, New York, USA
$47.20
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!