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New Heritage and History Tours
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IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES
This is an intensive day exploring many aspects of the immigrant experience in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. First, we will visit to Ellis Island, the gateway to America for millions of immigrants, from 1892 to 1954, passing the beautifully restored State of Liberty, for an overview of American immigration.
Returning to Battery Park, we have many options available to explore the world of the newly-arrived immigrant, which may include: The Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Irish Hunger Memorial, the site of the infamous Five Points slum (depicted in the film “Gangs of New York”), Chinatown, one of the largest ethnic immigrant neighborhoods in the country, the Lower East Side and the Confino Apartment at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum – "living history" that takes visitors back to 1916, Eldridge Street Synagogue (built on the Lower East Side in 1887), St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral (dedicated in 1815), Little Italy and Greenwich Village –traditional centers of Italian-American New York.
Lunch will be scheduled at one of the many restaurants of lower Manhattan that offer a wide range of cuisine, ranging from Chinese dim sum palaces to Jewish delicatessens to traditional Italian trattoria.
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NEW YORK’S RELIGIOUS HERITAGE
Explore the religious diversity of New York in its history and in the present moment. See some of the most well-known and important places of worship in America, and meet some members of the religious communities of our nation’s largest city. Visit a selection of major churches and synagogues that represent some of the range of New York’s religious experience and architecture. Search out some of the resources for learning about our religious heritage and sample our collections of religious manuscripts. Explore the role of religion in the decorative and fine arts, and the fine art of religious objects.
Our specialists will create a custom tour for your group that brings into contemporary context New York’s long and varied religious heritage through history, architecture and current events.
A Friend in New York™ offers custom-created Religious Heritage tours lasting from one to seven days. Because of the wide range of options and the occurrence of holidays and holy days, and the availability of many sites only on specific days of the week and the venue’s availability on the dates of the tour, all Religious Heritage tours offered are necessarily unique, custom tours. A typical short tour will include such sites selected from: St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Abyssinian Baptist Church, Riverside Church, Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, Congregation Emanu-El, Eldridge Street Synagogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Morgan Library, The Jewish Museum.
Tours can include attendance at musical performances or religious services. If your group is a choir, we would be pleased to help arrange for performance spaces for you in New York or participation in a religious service. A short discussion of New York’s religious diversity and history with a professor from one of New York’s respected universities is also an option.
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Includes A Friend in New York administrative and planning fees.
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| THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN NEW YORK Revisit New York’s key role in the American Revolution. The city and its harbor were key objectives in the British plan to split New England from the other American colonies. All of the social and political conflicts that led up to the Revolution and some of its first major battles were played out in New York.
- Walk the route of the Stamp Act protesters from City Hall Park- the center of activity – to Bowling Green, past Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel. Have lunch at the inn where George Washington took leave of his officers. Visit the site of Washington’s farewell address to his troops in 1783 and the site of the first presidential inauguration.
- See the sites of major action of the Battle of Brooklyn that August, 1776 battle.
- Pay respects to the estimated 11,000 American war prisoners who died aboard the infamous prison ships during seven years of British occupation and who are eloquently memorialized by the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument.
Visit the site of the Battle of Harlem Heights and the colonial mansion that served as Washington’s headquarters where he commanded its defenses, and the porch where he probably stood watch as the city burned on September 21, 1776. (A late afternoon tea can be arranged there.)
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Includes A Friend in New York administrative and planning fees.
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In creating custom Heritage tours, A Friend in New York™ aims at maintaining a moderately paced tour with a light walking difficulty. Some stair climbing may be required. Wheelchair accessibility is not guaranteed unless prearranged. A Friend in New York™ can arrange for all aspects of your tour, including transportation, meals and accommodations. |
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