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OUR WALKING TOUR GUIDEBOOK
PUBLIC TOURS
(On select dates we will be offering public walking
tours. For reservations and further information, click the link above.)
About
Our Tours
All tours are led by Michelle or
James Nevius and feature a mix of stops that highlight the history,
architecture, and cultural development of the neighborhood. We are both
historians who believe that the best way to experience New York City is up close and on foot.
Booking
All tours are given exclusively on a private basis so
that you can pick the time and date that best accommodates your schedule. The
tour covers between a mile-a-half and two-and-a-half miles in approximately
two hours. The tour costs a flat fee of $80 for groups of 1, 2, or 3 people;
it is $20.00 per person if your party has four or more people. Discounts are
available for student groups and parties of more than 10 people.
To contact us about
booking this tour
please email
walknyc@gmail.com
or
call (toll-free) 1-877-572-9719
or
in NYC: 212-666-2903
Questions?
Follow
this link to our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Follow
this link for Customer
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Peter Stuyvesant’s
Bowery:
The East Village, Gramercy
Park, and Stuyvesant Square
 When New York was still New Amsterdam
and everything north of Chambers
Street was the countryside, Peter Stuyvesant
owned a large farm that ranged from Houston
Street to 23rd Street east of the Bowery. This
tour explore the disparate neighborhoods that farmland has become today: The
East Village, Gramercy
Park, Stuyvesant Square—and
parts of NoHo and Union Square, too. Planned stops
include:*
- Union Square
- Ladies’ Mile
shopping district
- Grace
Episcopal Church
- Astor Place
- The Cooper
Union
- St.
Marks-in-the-Bowery (including Peter Stuyvesant’s grave)
- Second Avenue
(“The Jewish Rialto”)
- Stuyvesant Square
- The original
townhouses of Gramercy
Park
- One of the
city’s first cooperative apartment buildings
- The National
Arts Club
- The Players
Club
- The Gramercy
Park Hotel
- The
Brotherhood Synagogue
- Irving Place
- The “Block
Beautiful” of 19th Street
- Pete’s Tavern
- St. George’s Church
- Friends
Meeting House
- In addition,
the tour is supplemented with historic photographs and drawings showing
the neighborhood through the years.
* all walking tour itineraries are
subject to change
“Add an
Hour”
For
an additional $10 per person (or a flat fee of $120 for groups of 1-3
people), you can add an hour to the length of your tour and spend some time
exploring one of the neighborhoods that borders Gramercy Park and the East
Village, such as Greenwich Village or SoHo and NoLita.
For more information, please visit our Add
an Hour page by CLICKING HERE; to book this tour, click on one of
the following email links:
1) Peter
Stuyvesant’s Bowery + Greenwich Village
2) Peter
Stuyvesant’s Bowery + SoHo/NoLita
(Please note that
you may only add one additional neighborhood to the tour.)
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