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  • July 2

    George Washington, New Yorker -- 10:30 AM, 1 PM, 3:30 PM
    Discover the New York of General Washington during the American Revolution and how he launched the new nation as president of the United States. Washington was the first to use the term to use "New Yorker," in a letter he wrote in 1754 and coined New York State's nickname, "the Empire State."
    Meeting Place: Inside Blimpies Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park.
    Fee: $15.

  • July 3

    George Washington, New Yorker -- 10:30 AM, 1 PM, 3:30 PM
    Discover the New York of General Washington during the American Revolution and how he launched the new nation as president of the United States. Washington was the first to use the term to use "New Yorker," in a letter he wrote in 1754 and coined New York State's nickname, "the Empire State."
    Meeting Place: Inside Blimpies Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park.
    Fee: $15.

  • July 4

    George Washington, New Yorker -- 10:30 AM, 1 PM, 3:30 PM
    Discover the New York of General Washington during the American Revolution and how he launched the new nation as president of the United States. Washington was the first to use the term to use "New Yorker," in a letter he wrote in 1754 and coined New York State's nickname, "the Empire State."
    Meeting Place: Inside Blimpies Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park.
    Fee: $15.

    Summer Nights, Lights, and Delights: First Annual Freedom Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge for Independence Day Weekend -- 7 PM
    Make a nocturnal visit to patriotic sites in both New York and Brooklyn in celebration of our nationƒ­s birthday.
    Meeting Place: Inside Blimpies Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park.
    Fee: $15.

  • July 5

    George Washington, New Yorker -- 10:30 AM, 1 PM, 3:30 PM
    Discover the New York of General Washington during the American Revolution and how he launched the new nation as president of the United States. Washington was the first to use the term to use "New Yorker," in a letter he wrote in 1754 and coined New York State's nickname, "the Empire State."
    Meeting Place: Inside Blimpies Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park.
    Fee: $15.

  • July 17

    Literary and Artistic Garrets of Greenwich Village, 1:30PM
    We will start, appropriately, at the Jefferson Market Library at Sixth Avenue and 10th Street. This walking tour will take you to the homes or sites associated with writers such as Edna St. Vincent Milay, Edgar Allan Poe, Djuna Barnes, Eugene O'Neili, e. e. cummings and others. Readings of some of their works is also included.

    Meeting Place: In front of the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library, southwest corner of 6th Ave. and 10th St.

    Fee: $15.00


  • July 18

    350th Anniversary of the American Jewish Experience: When Harlem was Yiddish, 10:30 AM
    Take a tour of what was once the greatest Jewish community after the Lower East Side at the beginning of the twentieth century. See the synagogues, shops and homes of the Jewish immigrants and their children.

    Meeting Place: In front of Bill Clinton's Office, 55 W. 125th St., the cross street is 5th Ave.

    Fee: $15.

    350th Anniversary of the American Jewish Experience: Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk, 1:30 PM
    Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America. We also see the "Carnegie Hall of Synagogues" where Richard Tucker and Jan Peerce got their start. This is the only tour that gives out posters of the Lower East Side.

    Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets

    Fee: $15.00

  • July 24

    121st Anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge Talk and Walk, 1:30:00PM
    Learn how the Roebling family built one of the great marvels of the nineteenth century: John who designed it, his son Washington who built it, and Emily, Washington's wife who became the world's first woman engineer. Discover how this bridge was on the cutting edge of technology, architecture, transportation and even finance. We are the only tour that gives away posters, brochures and post cards of the Brooklyn Bridge.

    Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park

    Fee: $15.00

  • July 25

    Four Chinatowns Tour, 1:30 PM
    Discover the Irish, Italian, Jewish and Chinese heritages of Chinatown.

    Fee: $15 includes the ferry

  • July 31

    Castle Garden, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, and the Immigrant Experience, 1:30
    Discover how these two immigrant landing stations welcomed newcomers to America.

    Meeting Place:In front of the Immigrant Statue in front of Castle Clinton in Battery Park.

    Fee: $30.00

    Summer Nights, Lights, and Delights Fifth Avenue from Millionaire to Billionaires -- 6:30 PM.
    Join us in a nocturnal stroll for shoppers, architects, and historians on New York's premier address from 49th Streets to 60th Streets.

    Meeting Place: Channel gardens, at Rockefeller Center, between the British Empire and French Buildings across from Saks Fifth Avenue between 49th and 50th Street of Fifth Avenue.


    Fee: $15.

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