1,000 Years of NYC History walking tour

EVERY TUESDAY at 10:00am $30pp (RSVP required)

(Also available as a private tour $200 per group)

MORE INFO: https://www.leshp.org/1000-years-of-new-york-city-history-walking-tour/

This exciting and insightful walking tour goes off the beaten path and goes beyond the familiar narrative by covering a hundreds of years of important history; from Native Americans to modern-day gentrification. Trace the evolution of Lower Manhattan from wilderness and farmland to center of international trade & commerce.

Utilizing generations of insight rare maps photos documents articles and oral histories not found elsewhere LESHP digs deep into the city’s early forgotten history.

Visited on tour:

• Sites of Native American villages and trails
• Sites of freed slave districts
• The notorious Five Points former Irish and African enclave
• Former immigrant tenement districts
• Chinatown
• Historic churches theaters restaurants shops
• Popular landmarks and sites of interest

Discussed on tour:

• Native American life
• European colonization
• African slavery experience
• British occupation and the Revolutionary War
• Evolution of NYC from farmland to center of international trade & commerce
• Truth about the movie “Gangs of New York”
• Various ethnic populations and influences (Puerto Rican Chinese Italian etc.)
• Changes presently affecting the New York City
• And much more!

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher Lower East Side History Project