Tag: tours
Shaping our Cityscape : Open Houses – Design Firms Downtown
Open houses with architects, landscape architects, engineers, and planners with offices downtown. Click on the link to see participating firms.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Liss and the Culper Spy Ring
Walking tour. Experience the story of a new founding figure for America named Liss - and see New York City in a whole new way. You'll learn about the...
Alexander Hamilton in the Financial District Walking Tour
Alexander Hamilton immigrated to British Colonial New York as a young, orphaned nobody, but quickly rose to be an influential player in the...
Annual Independence Day Parade
The celebration of Independence Day has been a long standing tradition in Lower Manhattan from the very first days of the Revolution, and especially...
The Forty Years Manhattan was Dutch Walking Tour
Beginning in 1624, the Dutch West India Company transformed an edge of Manhattan wilderness into the colonial trading post of New Amsterdam. They...
Jewish Colonial Walking Tour
The first Jewish immigrants to Manhattan arrived in 1654, during Dutch colonial times. The small group of 23 men, women, & children were allowed...
