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(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
mnevius@walknyc.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.
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Five Points
and The Gangs of New York
 The neighborhood of
Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and Jacob Riis' How the Other
Half Lives was New York's
most notorious slum at the time of the Civil War. On this tour we will see where Paradise
Square and the Five Points were—they
don't exist any more. Beginning in the last decade of the Nineteenth century,
the neighborhood was bulldozed, first to make way for a park, and then as the
spot for many of the city's civic buildings. But we will talk about why they
Five Points no longer exists, while at the same time looking at tenements
that are still standing, including the city's oldest. Having seen Gangs of
New York is not a prerequisite for enjoying this tour; come along
and learn about New York's
free black community, Irish immigration, the Draft Riots, and other aspects
of mid-Nineteenth century city life.
Planned stops on the tour include*:
- City Hall
- The fountain
commemorating the bringing of clean drinking water to Manhattan
- Park Row,
a.k.a. Newspaper Row
- The African
Burial Ground
- The Emigrant
Savings Bank
- The New York County courthouse
- The remnants
of Five Points
- Mulberry Bend
- Columbus Park
- The Church of
the Transfiguration
- New York's oldest
tenement building and other typical dwellings
- Chinatown
- Little Italy
- Old St.
Patrick's Cathedral
- This heavily
illustrated tour uses historic photographs from the mid-19th century
onward to show tenement life, street markets, sweat shops, labor
rallies, and the great mix of people that jammed Manhattan's most crowded neighborhood.
*
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 the Five Points such as The
Lower East Side, SoHo and NoLita, or Lower
Manhattan.
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) Five
Points + The Lower East Side
2) Five
Points + SoHo/NoLita
3) Five
Points + Lower Manhattan
(Please note that
you may only add one additional neighborhood to the tour.)
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