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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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Neighborhoods Reborn:
TriBeCa, SoHo, and NoLita
 For the last 50
years, one of the most important trends in the redevelopment (and
gentrification) of Manhattan
has been the “rebranding” of neighborhoods. Thus, “Hell’s Hundred Acres”
became SoHo (for South of Houston Street), the northern section of Little Italy was contracted into NoLita and the Lower
West Side emerged as TriBeCa (the Triangle Below Canal Street).
This tour looks at the history of
these three neighborhoods through their architecture, peeling back the layers
of gentrification to examine the unpolished industrial and residential
neighborhoods that still lie beneath.
Planned stops on this tour include:*
- The E.V. Houghwout Building—home
of the first passenger elevator
- Examples of
work by some of America’s great 19th-century architects, including
Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, R.H. Robertson, Ernest Flagg, and
Calvert Vaux
- The site of
Robert Moses’ failed Lower Manhattan Expressway
- The cast-iron
gems of Greene Street
- The remnants
of the St. Nicholas Hotel, once one of the largest and most famous in New York
- The Beaux-Arts
Police Headquarters
- Excellent
examples of tenement architecture in Little Italy
- St. Patrick’s
Old Cathedral
- The
“Ghostbusters” firehouse
- The New York
Merchant’s Exchange
- In addition,
the tour features a number of illustrations that help trace the historic
development of cast iron as a building material and chart the
development of these neighborhoods.
* 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 SoHo and TriBeCa, such as The
East Village, Greenwich Village,
Chinatown (and the Irish Five Points), or The
Lower East Side.
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) Neighborhoods
Reborn + Greenwich Village
2) Neighborhoods
Reborn + The East Village
3) Neighborhoods
Reborn + Chinatown/Five Points
4) Neighborhoods
Reborn + The Lower East Side
(Please note that
you may only add one additional neighborhood to the tour.)
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