Explore Lower Manhattan’s complex history through the places where the city confronted burial, disease, justice, and remembrance. This extended walking tour moves from Battery Park to Chinatown and traces how New York’s growth was shaped by epidemics, lost cemeteries, civic unrest, early medical practices, and the politics of the dead. It is a thoughtful and […]
Explore Lower Manhattan’s complex history through the places where the city confronted burial, disease, justice, and remembrance. This extended walking tour moves from Battery Park to Chinatown and traces how New York’s growth was shaped by epidemics, lost cemeteries, civic unrest, early medical practices, and the politics of the dead. It is a thoughtful and […]
Forget the gangland clichés. This walking tour uncovers the radical, corrupt, and wildly enterprising figures who shaped New York City, from pirate captains and Wall Street bombers to bank fraudsters, rogue publishers, and NYPD whistleblowers. It’s a crash course in how NYC was built not just by power and politics, but by those who bent […]
