The NoHo Historic District & East Village Walking Tour
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories

A Walking Tour of the Past and Present

This Walking Tour Of Manhattan's Past and Present Features:

Some highlights for the two hour tour:

• The Two Shakespearian Actors who caused a riot or was it really their fault?
• The Cable Building and cable cars on Broadway
• The Astor Library and HIAS
• Find out about the Father of Washington Square
• Find out about Big Jim Fiske and the Broadway Central Hotel
• originally, The Bond Street Saving Bank from 1874
• Bond St. and a impressive landmark cast iron building
• A landmark building with Beaux Art Monumental design by a idiosyncratic architect of his day
• Colonnade Row, the Astors lived here among other well known New Yorkers of the day
• Site where Matthew Brady' s studio was before he took the famous picture of Abraham Lincoln in a top hat
• the world's smallest opera house
• "The Alamo"
• Herman Melville lived here for 4 years and based one of his novel on his childhood experiences here
• The Old Merchants House Museum
• Susan B. Anthony lived here for two years
• The Samuel Treadwell Skidmore House from 1845
• The first woman to run for president of the United States lived in a house on this site
  Her and her sister also were the 1st female stockbrokers on Wall St. and the 1st women to have their own brokerage firm on Wall St. - the Bewitching Brokers
• New York's only skyscraper designed by Louis Sullivan (The Prophet of Modern Architecture) an example of his "structural expression"
• The DeVinne Press Building.
• Cooper Union and "Peter Cooper"
• Wanamaker Place
  And find out about: Alexander Turney Stewart "Going Out of Business",
  the the world's largest cast iron building at the start of Fashion Row and much more

The three and a half hour tour includes:

• Stuyvesant-Fish House
• New York's worst disaster (before 9/11) with over a thousand lives lost and Little Germany moves up town
• Grace Church
• Hebrew Actors Union & Actors Club Building
• Peter Stuyvesant’s Pear tree on Pear Tree Corner
• The Hebrew Technical School
• Who Originated the Term "the bread line"
• The St. Dennis Hotel and New York's first telephone call
• Jaff Arts Theater from 1926 and the Yiddish Rialto and the Walkway of Stars
• St. Mark's in the Bowery Church from 1799 and the Historic District
• It used to be called: "Remwick Triangle"
• originally: the German American Shooting Clubhouse
• originally: the Daniel Le Roy House from 1823
• Two landmark building from when "Little Germany" was here
  The German Dispensary and Ottendorfer Library
• originally St. Mark's in Little Germany and the General Slocum Disaster
• McSorley's, the oldest Irish pub in New York City
• George Gershwin lived here, as a teenager, with his family
• D. W. Griffith Biograph Studios
• Emma Goldman where she lived and much more
• The secret headquarters in the novel, "The Alienist" for a special investigation by, Dr. Kreizler & his associates