AUGUST 2   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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WALL STREET:
A COLONIAL MELTING POT WITH HEARTY DUTCH INFLUENCE
Old New Amsterdam — a Dutch frontier town where people of the world came to buy low and sell high. These narrow streets convey many layers of Manhattan history.
MEET: Trinity Church, Broadway & Wall St.
 
 

AUGUST 6   Wednesday 11 AM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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CENTRAL PARK: THE BIG BACK YARD OF THE CITY
150 years ago these 843 acres were manually restructured into a work of art at the heart of Manhattan.
MEET: Fifth Ave. & 59th St., at the General Sherman statue.
 
 

AUGUST 10   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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GANGS OF NEW YORK AND THE BLOODY FIVE POINTS
A notorious 19th century immigrant neighborhood — the Five Points, with Paradise Square, Cow Bay, and Bottle Alley, and its gangs — the Roach Guards, Plug Uglies, and Dead Rabbits.
MEET: Bayard St. (1 block south of Canal St.) & the Bowery, northwest corner, at Bank of America.
 
 

AUGUST 30   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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THE FLAMBOYANT AND THE BOHEMIAN — GREENWICH VILLAGE AND HOW IT BECAME FAMOUS
Essentials of the Village — history, theater, culture, tragedy, architecture, notorious personalities.
MEET: Washington Arch, Fifth Ave. south of 8th St.
 
 

NEW TOUR
SEPTEMBER 7   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
CENTRAL PARK WEST — ARTISTS, REAL ESTATE LAW, AND AN EXPANDING UPPER MIDDLE CLASS
Into a location once called a disgrace to the city, new transportation and an answer to “the servant problem” brought artists, gangsters, and Rosemary’s Baby.
MEET: 77th St. & Central Park West, southeast corner, across from New-York Historical.
 
 

SEPTEMBER 13   Saturday 1 PM   $15/$12 ages 65+
MURRAY HILL — FROM "THE RESTRICTION"
TO J P MORGAN AND FRIENDS
A residential enclave, with tales of the Quaker Grammarian, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt, and the mansion built to upstage "JP."
MEET: Park Ave. & 38th St., southwest corner, in front of the Kitano Hotel.
 
 

SEPTEMBER 21   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
THE GENIUS AND ELEGANCE OF GRAMERCY PARK
Discover a London Square that became home to creative minds, elegant salons, and the taste-setting Lady Mendl.
MEET: Gramercy Park, Lexington Ave. & 21st St.
 
 

SEPTEMBER 28   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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FIFTH AVENUE GOLD COAST
Tycoons, Central Park, and great mansions created the New York avenue "paved with gold."
MEET: The Frick Collection, 1 E. 70th St. between Fifth and Madison Avenues.
 
 

OCTOBER 5   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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HELL'S KITCHEN AND ITS VIVID IRISH PAST
Whatever happened to the lurid district of One-Lung Curran, bloody slaughterhouses, and the sweaty old Madison Square Garden?
MEET: Tenth Ave. & 42nd St., northwest corner.
 
 

OCTOBER 11   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS — FROM THE BLOOMINGDALE INSANE ASYLUM TO THE ACROPOLIS OF NEW YORK
During the 19th century this neighborhood, once farmland and a battlefield, began its transformation into a center for learning, healing, and spirituality.
MEET: Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 112th St. & Amsterdam Ave.
 
 

OCTOBER 18   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
HISTORIC DIVERSITY IN THE EAST VILLAGE — DUTCH BOUWERIE, IRISH ALE HOUSE, AND THE YIDDISH KING LEAR
Stuyvesant's 17th century bouwerie grew into the Irish Famine Church, a German maritime tragedy, and the flourishing Yiddish theatre.
MEET: St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church, 10th St. & Second Ave.
 
 

OCTOBER 25   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
MACABRE GREENWICH VILLAGE
Hangings, murders, graveyards, missing people, and where ghosts have been seen.
MEET: The Arch at Washington Square Park, Fifth Ave. south of 8th St.
 
 

OCTOBER 26   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
MACABRE GREENWICH VILLAGE
Hangings, murders, graveyards, missing people, and where ghosts have been seen.
MEET: The Arch at Washington Square Park, Fifth Ave. south of 8th St.
 
 

NOVEMBER 1   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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GANGS OF NEW YORK AND THE BLOODY FIVE POINTS
A notorious 19th century immigrant neighborhood — the Five Points, with Paradise Square, Cow Bay, and Bottle Alley, and its gangs — the Roach Guards, Plug Uglies, and Dead Rabbits.
MEET: Bayard St. (1 block south of Canal St.) & the Bowery, northwest corner, at Bank of America.
 
 

NEW TOUR
NOVEMBER 9   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
FROM UNION SQUARE TO MADISON SQUARE — BASEBALL, TAMMANY HALL, AND THE GIRL ON THE RED VELVET SWING
Hubs of political chicanery, Union Square and Madison Square were gathering places for sports fans, anarchists, vaudevillians, and 19th century fashionistas.
MEET: 13th St. & Broadway, southeast corner.
 
 

NOVEMBER 16   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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CENTRAL PARK — THE BIG BACK YARD OF THE CITY
150 years ago these 843 acres became a work of art at the heart of Manhattan.
MEET: Fifth Ave. & 59th St., at the General Sherman statue.
 
 

NOVEMBER 22   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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HARLEM — KEYSTONE OF AFRICAN AMERICA
20th century hub of black culture and struggle. History, homes, music, churches, artists, leaders, and today's economic renaissance.
MEET: City College, 138th St. & Amsterdam Ave. Take: #1 subway to 137th St. station; go to 138th St.; walk 1 block up the 138th St. hill.
 
 

NOVEMBER 28   Saturday 11 AM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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CENTRAL PARK — THE BIG BACK YARD OF THE CITY
150 years ago these 843 acres became a work of art at the heart of Manhattan.
MEET: Fifth Ave. & 59th St., at the General Sherman statue.
 
 

NOVEMBER 29   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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THE FLAMBOYANT AND THE BOHEMIAN — GREENWICH VILLAGE AND HOW IT BECAME FAMOUS
Essentials of the Village — history, theater, culture, tragedy, architecture, notorious personalities.
MEET: The Arch at Washington Square Park, Fifth Ave. south of 8th St.
 
 

DECEMBER 6   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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FIFTH AVENUE GOLD COAST
Tycoons, Central Park, and great mansions created the New York avenue "paved with gold."
MEET: The Frick Collection, 1 E. 70th St. between Fifth and Madison Avenues.
 
 

DECEMBER 14   Sunday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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HELL'S KITCHEN AND ITS VIVID IRISH PAST
Whatever happened to the lurid district of One-Lung Curran, bloody slaughterhouses, and the sweaty old Madison Square Garden?
MEET: Tenth Ave. & 42nd St., northwest corner.
 
 

DECEMBER 20   Saturday 1 PM   $15; $12 for ages 65+
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THE FLAMBOYANT AND THE BOHEMIAN — GREENWICH VILLAGE AND HOW IT BECAME FAMOUS
Essentials of the Village — history, theater, culture, tragedy, architecture, notorious personalities.
MEET: The Arch at Washington Square Park, Fifth Ave. south of 8th St.
 
 

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