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Recreate the Most Requested Walking Tour of 1840s New York
New York City, New York, USA
$59
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Overview
Astor Place, a historic hub of elegance, sets the stage for an immersive 2.5-hour walking tour. Journey through the contrasting narratives of New York City, from its elite beginnings to the infamous Five Points neighborhood.
- 🏷️ Guided Walking Tour: Engage with a professional guide who brings the rich history of New York City to life through captivating stories and insights.
- 📍 Explore Iconic Locations: Begin at the Public Theater and Colonnade Row, where the elite once resided, and uncover the historical significance of this landmark.
- 🏙️ Discover Architectural Evolution: Walk down Broadway, decoding the streetscape and observing how buildings have been adapted over time, revealing their unique styles and histories.
- 🖼️ Visual History: Enjoy images from the past that illustrate the transformation of SoHo, providing context to the fashionable shops and galleries of today.
- 🏛️ Louis Sullivan's Legacy: Stop to appreciate the only building by Louis Sullivan in the city, learning about its pivotal role in the evolution of skyscraper design.
- 🗺️ Historic Geography: At Houston Street and Broadway, witness the ancient geography that influenced the city’s grid layout, a testament to its rich past.
- 🏞️ From SoHo to Five Points: Continue through SoHo, exploring how this area was referred to in different eras, and the social dynamics that shaped its identity.
- 🌆 Social and Retail History: Walk down to Canal Street, where stories of characters from a bygone era unfold, offering a glimpse into the city’s vibrant past.
- 🗽 End at Five Points: Conclude your journey at the historic site of The Five Points, contrasting the tour's elegant beginnings with the realities of its notorious slum history.
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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
New York City, New York, USA
$59
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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