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  • Build a Baggywrinkle

    All-ages activity where you get to learn about the common ships’ tool known as a baggywrinkle––a soft covering used to protect sails from damage.

    Free

  • Gangs of New York and the Bloody Five Points

    Walking tour. Just east of today’s City Hall and Municipal Building, this was once was a foul-smelling, disease-ridden district. Brought to life in the movie Gangs of New York, it was a place of violence, gang wars, poverty, and corruption. The district evokes such places of notoriety as Paradise Square, Cow Bay, and Bottle Alley, […]

    $10

  • Monthly Tree Tour

    Governors Island

    Near­ly 3,500 trees make up Gov­er­nors Island’s canopy, pro­vid­ing essen­tial ben­e­fits for Island vis­i­tors and all New York­ers: they cap­ture and remove pol­lu­tion from the air, help mit­i­gate cli­mate change by absorb­ing and seques­ter­ing car­bon diox­ide, reduce runoff and oth­er flood­ing dur­ing weath­er events, help cool our com­mu­ni­ties, and fos­ter crit­i­cal bio­di­ver­si­ty.

    Free

  • Lower Manhattan Historic Scavenger Hunt

    Uncover the layers of New York’s past in this fast-moving, team-based hunt through the city’s oldest neighborhood. Teams will compete to solve a series of location-based clues and puzzles, leading them to landmarks tied to more than 400 years of history. Players will race through the narrow streets of Lower Manhattan to discover sites like […]

    $10

  • Lafayette and the Gilded Age Symposium

    Afternoon of special programming exploring 19th century New York. Hear from speakers on topics including the Marquis de Lafayette's return to America early in the century, immigration to New York, and the Gilded Age. This program will feature a lecture by Mike Duncan, one of the foremost history podcasters in the world and the author […]

    $10 – $35

  • Battery Park City – Its Manhattan Plus Walking Tour

    Replacing deserted piers along Lower Manhattan’s Hudson River shoreline, Battery Park City has emerged as a remarkable living space. Its 92 acres of landfill were developed by the Battery Park City Authority, an innovative group of public and private advocates. The secret of Battery Park City’s success is its integration of public amenities and private […]

    $13

  • The 1900’s: Connecting the City: The History of Infrastructure Symposium

    By 1900 New York was the largest city in America. The biggest challenges were moving 3.5 million people, helping them navigate, and providing them with enough power Join us for an afternoon about infrastructure how it developed and what is planned in the future as we move to a carbon neutral city. Please join cultureNOW, […]

    Free

  • Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music

    Singers of all levels, as well as listeners, are welcome to join in the choruses throughout the free Chantey Sing, lead or request a song in the round-robin, or just listen.

    Free

  • 2000’s Symposium: Facing the Future

    Join cultureNOW, the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, Center for Architecture, and the Consulate-General of the Netherlands in New York for a hybrid symposium about strategies for facing the urbanchallenges of the 21st century: mobility, resiliency, cultural heritage, water, housing. Architects from Amsterdam andother major cities in the Netherlands are global leaders in addressing these issues […]

    Free

  • Built in New York

    Pop-up exhibition presented by the NYC Department of Records and Information Services.

    Free

  • The Battery Walking Tour

    Explore The Battery with the landscape architects who have helped shape it for nearly three decades. Learn about how The Battery’s location at the tip of Manhattan destined it to become the birthplace of country’s first corporate headquarters — for the Dutch West India Company — and how this strategically located open space has continuously […]

    $13

  • Wall Street Transformations through Time — Walking Tour

    As the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, we will walk Wall Street to recall its colonial history, recap its role as the banking center of capitalism, and observe its recent rise of a reinvented residential neighborhood. Skyscraper Museum director Carol WIllis will lead a 90-minute walking tour that meets in […]

    Free

  • Gotham Park Walking Tour

    Gotham Park is a grass-roots community effort reimagining how spaces under the iconic Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan can become a new type of urban community park that nurtures connection, curiosity, wonder, and resilience. The bridge is a sleeping giant, a landmark recognized the world over, but it lands in a fenced-off, dark, underutilized parking lot. […]

    Free