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Lower East Side Tours
Our guides are native New Yorkers, professional educators and active in the community.
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Sundays @ 2:00pm - $20 ...to the single oldest relic of western civilization on the island of Manhattan. It's 19th century New York: bigotry and rivalry, ribaldry and racism, oppression, defiance, perseverance, progress and reform. Reservations: Not Required, you can pay your guide MEET HERE: (View larger map/get directions)
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New York's legendary slum, a story of Irish, Italians, Africans, Germans, Jews and Chinese, their struggles, their cultures; gangs of New York to the tongs of Chinatown -- with underground passageways still in use on winding Blood Alley where countless gang members were murdered in half a century of turf warfare...
Rob Hollander, Ph.D, a native East Side New Yorker, author, researcher and licensed tour guide, moved into Alphabet City in the 1970's, during its most desperate years of poverty, and has never left. A neighborhood preservationist and community activist, Hollander earns his living as an academic linguist and early music vocalist while contributing articles to various online media sources and published works on, among other subjects, tenement architecture and local history.
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