Bowery and Canal Walking Tours

Bowery and Canal Walking Tours Historic Walking Tours Bowery and Canal Walking Tours explore the history of the neighborhoods of New York City.

The tours focus on both historic events, the American Revolution as well as personalities that lived in various neighborhoods. They are giving by Mary Anne McElroy, a historian of the city of New York. The tours are a great way to learn not only the complex history of New York but also your own individual neighborhoods.

07/25/2018

Tonight the StoreFront Project will open at 70 Orchard Street. The reception begins at 6 p.m. The project is the work of two photographers who have chronicled the loss of Mom and Pop stores all over New York City with an emphasis on the Lower East Side. They also have a special exhibit in Seward Park on the Lower East Side.

A piece about Dr. King
04/04/2018

A piece about Dr. King

Today on the fifieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee we reflect on the legacy of this important American. We are all familiar with his connections…

This weekend marks the 241st Anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn. There are great events all through Brooklyn: At Fort...
08/26/2017

This weekend marks the 241st Anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn. There are great events all through Brooklyn: At Fort Greene at the Prisoner's Memorial at 10AM; at 3pm at Vander Ende-Onderdonk House a reading of the Declaration of Independence; 7:30 PM Music from the 18th Century at Greenwood Cemetery and on Sunday, August 27 at Greenwood Cemetery beginning at 10:00 AM events commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn.
http://www.green-wood.com/calendar/
http://www.onderdonkhouse.org

Here is a post from last year about the one and only Ramones!https://boweryandcanal.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/the-ramones...
08/16/2017

Here is a post from last year about the one and only Ramones!
https://boweryandcanal.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/the-ramones/

Hey Ho – Let’s Go! Today August 16 is a big day in music history. It’s the day Elvis left the building, Madonna was born and the Ramones stepped out of Queens onto the stage of …

06/29/2017

A handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson is at the New York Public Library until July 3.

Today is the anniversary of the General Slocum boat  fire which took the lives of 1, 021 mostly German Americans out to ...
06/15/2017

Today is the anniversary of the General Slocum boat fire which took the lives of 1, 021 mostly German Americans out to spend a summer's day on the East River. It was the single worst disaster in New York City history until 9/11. This Tennessee marble plaque in Tompkins Square Park, in the heart of what was then Kleindeutschland, commemorates the mostly women and children who died aboard the boat on that fateful June day.

This weekend marks the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in what is now the Brown Building of NYU off of Washi...
03/26/2017

This weekend marks the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in what is now the Brown Building of NYU off of Washington Square.
https://boweryandcanal.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/a-lovely-spring-day-encounters-death/

A lovely spring day in 1911 was forever changed by the tragic events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on Greene Street in Greenwich Village. The combination of smoke, locked doors and uncaring o…

03/11/2017

As they do every year, here from the 1909 parade, the county associations march up Fifth Avenue.

One of New York's most historic churches has undergone a complete restoration so that when you enter today it appears as...
02/19/2017

One of New York's most historic churches has undergone a complete restoration so that when you enter today it appears as it did in the 1840s when Old St. Patrick's Cathedral was the center of the Five Points. A must visit for anyone interested in Irish history and a stop on the "Irish and Five Points" tour given this March.

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New York, NY
10009

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Saturday 1pm - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 4pm

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(917) 602-3543

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