NEW YORK CITY CULTURAL WALKING TOURS

A Walking Tour of The Original West Village

The two and a half hour version or the three and a half hour version

This tour features the writers, poets, artist and famous people of the West Village with information about it's history and architecture along with interesting pictures and stories that help join us with the neighborhood's past.

The West Village is an unofficial name for a part of Greenwich Village that roughly speaking falls between West 14th Street and Christopher St. and west of Greenwich Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. The West Village name has been extended, in recent decades, to include part of the neighborhood known as the South Village (south of Christopher St. to St. Lukes Place between 6th Ave. and West St.) - this is not part of the Original West Village.

This walking tour of Manhattan's past and present features:
A walk through part of the landmark Greenwich Village Historic District known as "The West Village" including Abingdon Square, Bank Street, Christopher Street, Charles St., W. 11 St., W. 10 St., West St., Horatio St., Jane St., Hudson Street and the historic district of Weehawken St.
Each participant is given an itinerary with over 20 stops that includes 5 New York City landmarks and 2 national landmarks for the two hour version or
an itinerary for the two and a half hour tour with 23 stops or
an itinerary of the three hour tour with 26 stops plus two optional stops just out of the West Village neighborhood (1 is a New York City and a national landmark).
Each stop is fully discussed.

Some Highlights of the two and a half hour version are:

St. Veronica's Church and Gene Tunney
Find out about "the American Ward" - William "The Butcher" Poole
Richard Meier's skyscrapers and Charles Lane
Find out about the 9th Ave. El in the West Village
The Weehawkin Historic District
The White Horse Tavern - Norman Mailer - Dylan Thomas
H B Studio (many famous stars studied acting here)
Westbeth - the site of the development of television, radio, sound recording, sound movies, telephonics and public address systems.
Newgate Prison NY State Prison
Alexander Hamilton and the site where he died
Abington Square and the Abington Square Memorial
Admiral Peter Warren, his estate & Greenwich Village
Jane Jacobs, where she lived and wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
Fing out where Serpico actually lived when he was a cop here in the city
'Bleecker Gardens' and Mark & Charles Van Doren
'Auntie Mane' in real life where she died and where she lived
"The Family" by Chain Gross
Transplanted 'Cobble Court' from the early 19th century
Find out about the "Death Ave. Cowboy" - Gansevoort Market / Pier and the White Fort
A excellent, landmark example of a Greek Revival House from 1842
The landmark, American Seamen's Friend Society Home & Institute Bldg.
The site where Herman Melville worked for 19 years
The street and buildings where Clifford Odets and James Baldwin lived
The street and buildings where Carson McCullers and Jack Kerouac lived
Palazzp Chupi
The house Roy Lichtenstein lived and worked in the last decade of his life

Highlights Included in the three and a half hour version are:

Find out about The Masses where the publication was located & Max Eastman & John Reed,
Where Sinclaire Lewis lived
Where Hart Crane lived
Laren Bacall "Miss Greenwich Village"
Where Fiorello LaGuardia lived
A Greek Revival Townhouse from 1837
Where Edward Albee got his inspiration for "Who's Afraid of Viginia Wolf" ( Ninth Circle)
Where Almanac House was and where Woodie Guthrie lived
Wila Cather, Allen Tate, Katharine Anthony, and Ye Waverly Inn and more

Optional (for the three and a half hour version) two stops outside West Village neighborhood:
The Jefferson Market Courthouse - its history, architecture / the infamous trial of the century, Harry Thaw / Stephen Crane
Patchin Place, 1845

Meet at: southwest corner of Christopher St. & Greenwich St.

Guided by Alfred Pommer an informative native New Yorker, a college graduate and a Licensed New York City Guide, who has spent over 19 years researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.
Interested in a private walking tour" ?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details www.nycwalk.com

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A Walking Tour of The Lower West Village

This tour features the writers, poets, artist and famous people of the lower part of the neighborhood today known as the West Village with information about it's history and architecture along with interesting pictures and stories that help join us with the neighborhood's past.

The West Village is an unofficial name for a part of Greenwich Village that roughly speaking falls between West 14th Street and St. Lukes Place. and west of Greenwich Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. this tour examines the neighborhood between Christopher St. and St. Lukes Place west of Avenue of the Amercas (6th Ave.) - the lower part of that neighborhood.

This walking tour of Manhattan's past and present features:
A walk through part of the landmark Greenwich Village Historic District known as "The West Village" including Hudson Street, Grove St. and Grove Court, Bedford St., Barrow St. Commerce St., Morton St. and St. Lukes Place. Each participant is given an itinerary with over 17 stops that includes 4 New York City landmarks and 2 National landmarks. Each stop is fully discussed.

Some Highlights of the two hour tour are:

the narrowest house in New York & Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jefferson Market Courthouse, Stephen Crane, Harry Thaw
Gay Street (Gentleman Jimmy Walker - "My Sister Eileen - William Kunstler)
Sheridan Square & Christopher Park
The Stonewall Inn (riot) - the Northern Dispensary
The Federal Archive Building
Grove Court and "The Last Leaf"
Landmark examples of Federal row houses built between 1825 and 1833
Landmark examples of Greek Revival row houses built in the 1840"s
St. Luke's in the Fields & Clement Clark Moore & Bret Hart
Isaacs - Hendrick's House from 1799 the oldest surviving house in the Village
originally: The Federal Archives Bldg.
Lee Chumley and Chumleys was here
Isaacs - Hendrick's House from 1799 the oldest surviving house in the Village
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman had an apartment here just before they were deported
The Whittmore Mansion from 1830, John Wilkes Booth, Hart Crane, "Lincoln Home"

Some Highlights of the two and a half hour tour include:

Mayor Jimmy Walker's home
Poet, Marion Moore lived here & the site of St. John's Cemetery which became Hudson Park and then James J. Walker Park
If there is a typical Village block this is the one

About two hours or two and a half hours long
Meet at: the Northeast corner of W. 10 St. and Ave. of the Americas (6th Ave.)

Guided by Alfred Pommer an informative native New Yorker, a college graduate and a Licensed New York City Guide, who has spent over 20 years researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.
Interested in a private walking tour" ?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details www.nycwalk.com

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