Join GVSHP staff member Dana Schulz as she takes you on a journey through the East Village, peeling back the layers of the cultural gastronomy scene that have made this neighborhood so eclectic (and delicious!) over the years. Explore how immigrant groups established restaurants to serve their own community as well as share their heritage with the uninitiated. Learn the little-known facts that make these spots famous and infamous and discover how the emerging food scene of today reflects the changing culture of the neighborhood. Stops will include John’s of 12th Street, Moishe’s Bakery, and the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop. Food samples are not included, but you’ll surely have some good dining ideas!
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Date: Monday May 23, 2012
Event Start/End: TBD
Hosts: The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP)
Registration: Limit of 30 participants. Register by emailing rsvp@gvshp.org or by calling 212-475-9585 x35
Accessibility: Fully Accessible – children and seniors welcome.
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton - 59th Street to 23rd Street: Midtown Through the Square
Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society (MAS), will guide us from Columbus Circle to Times Square—historic junctions along Broadway where MAS has played a critical role boosting the corridor’s assets. The Times Square Alliance will also be on hand to speak more specifically about Times Square’s cultural relevance and the plans in place to improve the area. Broadway Green Alliance will address its own initiatives regarding greening of the theater district.
BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.
NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th. To view the other events in the “BROADWAY: 1000 Steps” walk series, view the Upper Manhattan and Lower Manhattan walk pages.
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Event Start: 59th St. and Broadway; Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park
Event End: The intersection of Broadway and 23rd, on the South-West corner of Madison Square Park
Host: Vin Cipolla, President of the Municipal Art Society of New York
Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 23rd Street to Canal Street: The Downtown Area
Max Joel, the Director of Energy Connections at alternative energy organization, Solar One, will address their bold environmental initiatives, followed by naturalist and educator, Gabriel Willow, who will turn our attention to the natural habitat of the neighborhood beginning with Madison Square Park.
BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.
NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th. To view the other events in the “BROADWAY: 1000 Steps” walk series, view the Upper Manhattan and Lower Manhattan walk pages.
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Event Start: 23rd St. and Broadway
Event End: Canal St. and Broadway
Host: Max Joel
Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – Canal Street to Bowling Green: The Origins of the City
Community activist and Professor of Planning, Michael Levine, will reveal the rapidly changing demographic and environmental trends of Lower Manhattan, while chair of the CB1 Financial District Committee, Ro Shaffe, will share his deep knowledge of the area’s history that has given way to its current conditions. Wellington Chen, Director of the Chinatown Partnership, will speak about the prolific history of Chinatown area and discuss the current social and environmental challenges of this focal community. Annaline Dinkelmann, founder of Wall Street Walks, will share her knowledge about the history of the Financial District, dating all the way back to Manhattan’s Dutch settlers.
BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.
NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th. To view the other events in the “BROADWAY: 1000 Steps” walk series, view the Upper Manhattan and Lower Manhattan walk pages.
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Event Start: The intersection of Broadway and Lispenard, one block South of Canal
Event End: Bowling Green
Host: Michael Levine, Ro Schaffe, Wellington Chen, Margaret Sagan
Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
This walk, beginning at the former home of Jane Jacobs, will discuss what could have happened to the area if she had not defeated Robert Moses in building a Lower Manhattan Expressway, urban density and diversity (which Jacobs was highly in favor of), and will look at the type of “sidewalk ballet” that Jacobs viewed from her window.
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Event Start: 555 Hudson Street, Manhattan
Event End: Below the High Line
Host: Marty Schneit, of Marty’s New York Tours
Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
Walk of Catherine Slip Streetscape Approaching the East River Blueway
Join the Lower East Side Ecology Center Education Director, Dan Tainow, to learn about the improvements to the streetscape that are happening along the lower section of the East River Blueway. We will look at what has been built and discuss what could be built to improve parkland, water quality and access to the East River Blueway.
Click here for more information on this walk.
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start: 80 Catherine Slip (in front of P.S. 126/MAT), New York, NY 10038
Event End: Smith Park, next to 80 Catherine Slip at the GreenDay 2012 event
Host: Lower East Side Ecology Center
Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks
Take an epic three-mile walk bookended by two iconic New York public spaces: Times Square and the High Line. Along the way, we’ll highlight public plazas, safer street crossings, transit corridors and protected bike lanes—all situated in the midst of New York City’s unique architecture. We’ll stroll past the house where Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities and end with refreshments at Gansevoort Plaza.
Transportation Alternatives is working to revitalize New York City’s neighborhoods and restore a vibrant culture of street life. This walk features some of the many communities where T.A. advocacy brings safe and healthy streets for all.
Time: 8:15am-11:30am
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start: Broadway and West 47th Street – TKTS steps
Event End: Gansevoort Plaza, Little West 12th Street and 9th Avenue
Hosts: Transportation Alternatives, Clinton Hell’s Kitchen Coalition for Pedestrian Safety, Jim Braddock (Mitchell/Giurgola Architects), Friends of the High Line
Registration: RSVP (capacity constraints in place at the High Line): http://transalt.org/events/calendar/5808
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
Forget 16 Candles — Henry Street is lighting 145! The Henry Street Settlement will be celebrating the 145th birthday of our founder, Lillian Wald with an old-fashioned block party, free and open to all. In addition to old-fashioned street games for children, arts & crafts, music, refreshments and a birthday cake baking contest, Henry Street will be hosting walks through its 1832 historic headquarters (at 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 PM)
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 12:00pm-3:00pm
Event Start/End: 265 Henry Street (at Montgomery Street)
Host: Henry Street Settlement
Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
Take the Downtown Walk that new interns from all around the country take at the beginning of their “Urban Fellowship” with the City of New York. Imagine you’re new to this crazy, diverse, place and just learning about the City where you will be working in City Government for the next nine months.
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 12:00pm-1:45pm
Event Start/End: Under the Arch of the Manhattan Municipal Building, One Centre Street, Manhattan.
Host: Mitch Paluszek
Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks
Walk the High Line with Friends of the High Line (Pt. 2)
Completed all the way from Gansevoort Street to 30th Street in 2009, the High Line is Manhattan’s new park atop an elevated rail structure is one of the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. Led by Friends of the High Line Co-Founder, Robert Hammond, this walk is a wonderful to chance to hear how the High Line started with “two guys with no money and no plan” and a lot of friends to become one of New York’s great public spaces.
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Event Start: Gansevoort Plaza, at Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District
Event End: TBD
Host: Robert Hammond, Co-Founder of Friends of the High Line
Registration: Park regulations permit a maximum of 20 people for group gatherings. Please email rbabb@mas.org to RSVP.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
Walk the High Line with Friends of the High Line (Pt. 1)
Completed all the way from Gansevoort Street to 30th Street in 2009, the High Line is Manhattan’s new park atop an elevated rail structure is one of the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. Led by Friends of the High Line’s Emily Pinkowitz, this walk will be a great way to enjoy the park in the evening hours while hearing more on the gritty history of the West Side and the park’s wondrous variety of plantings.
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Event Start: Gansevoort Plaza, at Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District
Event End: TBD
Host: Emily Pinkowitz, School & Youth Program Manager of Friends of the High Line
Registration: Park regulations permit a maximum of 20 people for group gatherings. Please email rbabb@mas.org to RSVP.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
Transit Walk: The Transformation of Downtown Brooklyn
Public transit has defined and transformed New York City over and over again. Delve into one rich example by taking a close look at Downtown Brooklyn through the lens of mass transit. Led by educators from the New York Transit Museum, we’ll visit Court Street, Columbus Park, the commercial center at Fulton Mall, and the Transit Museum itself. Explore, observe, and discuss the impact of transit progress on this community. The tour concludes with complimentary admission to the New York Transit Museum, light refreshments, and an informal discussion. Located in an authentic 1930s subway station, the New York Transit Museum presents hands-on exhibits that celebrate the many ways that public transportation impacts New York City and its environs.
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Event Start: Pierrepont Playground at Columbia Heights and Pierrepont Streets (on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade)
Event End: New York Transit Museum
Host Organization: New York Transit Museum
Registration: There is a limit of 25 participants. Click here to register.
Accessibility: This event is accessible and welcoming to wheelchairs, bicycles, children, & seniors.
Take a tour of this historic theater where John Philip Sousa started the first musicians union, where the early ILGWU meetings were held right after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, where Emma Goldman, the anarchist, spoke here before being deported. In the thirties it was a Yiddish theater, in the forties it was home to famed African American choreographer Katharine Dunham, in the fifties it served as a television studio for early crime dramas, in the 60′s it reverted to a theater and hosted Channel One Theater (which spawned Chevy Chase and The Groove Tube movie), in the late sixties it hosted Andy Warhols Boys To Adore Galore porn films, and in the early 70′s Francis Ford Coppola filmed the famous operetta sequence of Godfather 2. Now housing the DMAC- Duo Multicultural Arts Center, 62 E 4th St. has a long, rich history as a center of social movements, and entertainment.
*This walk will be happening on both May 5th, and May 6th
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 2:00pm-2:30pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 12:00pm-12:30pm
Event Start/End: 62 East 4th Street
Host: Michelangelo Alasa
Registration: No need to register, just show up at the starting location.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks
Holly Whyte Way: A Way for Walkers on 6-1/2 Avenue
Between 51st and 57th Streets lies a public secret: a network of privately owned public spaces (POPS) built in exchange for additional building height above. Join Brian Nesin, David Grider and Jordan Zimolka of F-POPS for a tour of the art and design within this exciting shortcut through Midtown, christened “Holly Whyte Way”. Get the scoop on proposed plans to install mid-block crosswalks, connecting these pubilc plazas along “6-1/2 Avenue”.
Every day, all over the city, Transportation Alternatives is working to revitalize New York City’s neighborhoods and restore a vibrant culture of street life. This walk features one of the many communities where T.A. advocacy brings safe and healthy streets for all.
Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start: Meeting Place: AXA Plaza, 151 West 51st Street
Event End: Alliance Berstein Plaza, 55th Street and 6th Avenue
Hosts: Transportation Alternatives, Friends of Privately Owned Public Spaces (F-POPS)
Registration: RSVP at http://transalt.org/events/calendar/5851
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
From the 1870s to about 1910, the Tenderloin was Manhattan’s most famous red-light district, a cradle of elegant vice that developed north of 23rd Street west of Fifth Avenue, in the shadow of luxurious hotels such as Gilsey House. High-stakes gambling parlors, brothels, saloons, dance halls – the Tenderloin reveled in its own illegality, until pressure from civic authorities and corporate development led to its demise. Since the 1990s, zoning changes have altered the landscape of the old Tenderloin’s main stem – Sixth Avenue – and have led to the destruction of many buildings. But a few reminders survive. On this tour, we will visit sites associated with still-visible Tenderloin businesses, including the block of 28th St. once known as Tin Pan Alley, birthplace of the pop music industry.
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Event Start: Sidewalk in front of Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway at 29th Street
Event End: TBD
Host: David Freeland (www.gothamlostandfound.com)
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks.
Tracing the Path of Jane Jacobs’ Greenwich Village Battles
We will follow the route of Jane’s involvement in 3 battles against Robert Moses: The road through Washington Square Park, SoHo which the Lower Manhattan Expressway would have wiped out with Little Italy and Chinatown, and then West Village Houses where Moses wanted to demolish 14 square blocks for an Urban Renewal Plan.
Time: 2:00pm-4:30pm
Date: Sunday May 20, 2012
Event Start: Meet under the Washington Square Arch.
Host: Roberta Brandes Gratz, Author of Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, and Center for the Living City Board Member
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: This event is welcoming and accessible to wheelchairs, bicycles, seniors, children, and pets.
From New Amsterdam in the 1600s to NYC in 2012, this Jane’s Walk will explore the evolution of capitalism through architecture, from Battery Park to Wall Street.
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Event Start: Bowling Green Subway Station, in front of the Customs House
Event End: The Bull at Broadway between Morris & Beaver Street
Host: Suzanne Timmer and Thomas Wyaux
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Not Accessible – stairs, obstacles, uneven terrain, steep paths.
Starting from Astor Place at the Alamo sculpture (the Black Cube) we will view Astor Place Tower (2005), and end at the Puck Building (1886). This Jane’s Walk will include 4th Street’s Merchant’s House Museum (1833), Great Jones Street’s Engine Co No. 33 (1899), Bond Street’s Ian Schrager’s 40 Bond Street Condo (2008), and Bleecker Street’s Bayard-Condict Building (1899), among many other famous buildings. On Lafayette St we will see the Public Theater (1853) and on the Bowery, Cooper Union’s new Academic Building (2009) and Cooper Square Hotel (2008).
The walk will focus on the juxtaposition of new and old architecture with its many transitions
*This walk will be happening on both May 5th, and May 6th
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Event Start: Astor Place Cube – Eighth St. and Lafayette St. No. 6 Subway stop.
Event End: The Puck Building – Lafayette St. and E. Houston. Broadway/Lafayette Subway = B, D, F subway
Host: Bill Rosser
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks.
Damsels in Design Takeover Chelsea and Meatpacking District
Follow Damsel’s in Design founder, Jennifer Markas on a walk of the Meatpacking District and Chelsea, arguably the new center for fashion, design, and the arts in New York City.
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Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start: Diane Von Furstenberg, 874 Washington Street between 13th and 14th Streets
Event End: TBD
Host: Jennifer Markas, Founder of Damsels in Design
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Not Accessible – stairs, obstacles, uneven terrain, steep paths
In 1934, 18 year old Jane Jacobs arrived in NYC from Scranton to pursue a writing career. While exploring her new environs, she found herself at Christopher Street Station, and immediately began her love affair with Greenwich Village. Our tour will include the history of the area, woven with stories and relevant sights of Jane’s epic battles with city bureaucracy and the powerful Robert Moses to preserve her beloved Village. Walkers will visit Hudson Street, where she lived for 20 years, observing its daily ‘intricate sidewalk ballet’ that was the inspiration for her acclaimed first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, as well as see several other historic sites that would not exist today if it were not for her successful grassroots activism.
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start/End: 7th Ave. South & Christopher St., in front of Village Cigars
Host: Joan Schecter
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks
IRUBNY Celebrates Gramercy Park in a Creative New Way
Discover the many textures of the Gramercy Park. Join Carol Caputo, a New York artist, as she introduces you to a creative new way to connect to our urban neighborhoods. As you walk around this historic area, you will see many interesting architectural details that define the history and cultural story of this neighborhood. These stories can be found on the streets and buildings of every neighborhood in the city. Here’s an opportunity for you to get in-touch with a piece of history and create your own rubbing. Instructions, paper and crayons are provided. IRUBNY a fun and exciting experience for the whole family! “If you love New York, you’ll rub New York.”
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start: Corner of 18th St. & Irving Pl.
Event End: Lexington Ave. & 21st St.
Host: Carol Caputo, New York City artist, IRUBNY
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Fully Accessible
Beginning on the steps of the beautiful Customs House (now the Museum of the American Indian) and continuing through Battery Park, this tour will cover an area that played a major role in New York City history, from Hudson’s first spotting of Manhattan in the 17th century, to the city’s triumphant rebirth following 9/11. Built on landfill from the World Trade Center in the early 1980s, Battery Park City gives the city much needed housing, while being graced with 35 acres of public parks, gardens, plazas and public areas filled with art and planned by artists, landscape gardeners and architects.
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start: Steps of American Indian Museum (at Bowling Green Station)
Event End: Chambers St. at North end of Battery Park City
Host: Betty Heller, of “Big Apple Greeter”
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks
Manhattan’s Civic Center: From the Dregs of Collect Pond to the Center of Urban Governing
This Jane’s Walk, covering Manhattan’s Civic Center, will be led by city insider, Linda Fisher, who has worked in Manhattan’s Civic Center for 40 years, and lived through, and researched its history. Encompassing the area from the southern end of City Hall park–the site of the city’s first penal institutions–to just below Canal Street (bordered by Broadway and Centre Street), the Walk will tell the story of the Civic Center’s development, and will include a lesson on the functions of the various courts, jails and government buildings.
*This walk will be happening on both May 5th, and May 6th
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Event Start/End: Chambers and Centre Street and Northern end of City Hall Park
Host: Linda Fisher
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Not Accessible – stairs, obstacles, uneven terrain, steep paths
The History of the Lower East Side: Immigration, Religion and Culture
Starting on East Broadway, and continuing on to the Henry Street Settlement, the “real” Chinatown under the Manhattan Bridge, and ending at Folly Square, this Jane’s Walk revolves around the cultural history of Lower Manhattan. Exploring 18th and 19th century history, Jane’s Walkers will learn of early Christian churches, Jewish immigration of the 19th-20th centuries, modern Buddhist temples, and sites of Puerto Rican influx in the 1960s and 70s.
*This walk will be happening on both May 5th, and May 6th
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Event Start: F Train Stop on East Broadway
Event End: Folly Square
Host: Mark Herdter
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks
Completed May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is one of our great New York and American monuments – a cultural icon that has inspired Jane’s Walk host, Gary Zarr, since he was a boy growing up in Brooklyn. Staring from the Manhattan side of the bridge and crossing the river to Brooklyn, this walk will be a fun, memorable, and wonderful way to celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the many things that make us proud to be New Yorkers.
Time: 9:00am-11:00am
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Event Start: Outside Brooklyn Bridge Subway Station on Centre St.
Event End: Brooklyn Side of Bridge
Host Organization: The Municipal Art Society of New York, Hosted by MAS Board Member Gary Zarr
Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.
Accessibility: Not Accessible – stairs, obstacles, uneven terrain, steep paths
