This Walking Tour Examines the Racial Strife of the 1863 Draft Riots
In 1863, the U.S. Army was in need of manpower to fight the Civil War. So a new law was passed, expanding eligibility for the military draft. In New...
Walking Tour Invites You to View Lower Manhattan “Through a Jewish Lens”
Jews are often left out of the New Amsterdam narrative, but they were an important part of building colonial New York. To explore that history, the...
Find Out Why Urbanists Love Battery Park City in This Walking Tour
You’ve got another chance to learn about the groundbreaking new urbanism of Battery Park City this summer. The Congress for New Urbanism is...
How Battery Park City Became an Urbanist Dream: a Walking Tour and Lecture
New urbanism is all the rage, just ask the teens. The renewed popularity of pedestrian-friendly, densely constructed, human-scale design in recent...
