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A Slice of History. Delish.

Brooklyn’s best pizzerias will be revealed on this four-hour bus tour, along with the borough’s most famous movie locations, landmarks and other noteworthy spots.

11:00 am
$55 - Children under 12 $45
Meet at 4th Avenue between 13th and 14th Sts in the East Village
212-209-3370

Liquid History in the Village

For all your history buffs, pop culture fanatics, and/or dengenerate alcoholics - your Saturday evening is made. Take a drinking tour of Greenwich Village! Stops include the haunts of Ernest Hemingway and Edna St. Vincent Millay, a speakeasy from the 1920s still intact with its secret exits and trap doors, and the bar where Norman Mailer and RFK contemplated their political futures. Cost of refreshments is extra, so come armed with some extra cash and a thirst for history and spirits, and enjoy the comradery of a historic pub crawl!

NYC Discovery Walking Tours
$14 - 5:15pm
Reservations and Meeting Place: 212-465-3331

Bike Brooklyn's Beer Blitz!!!

"Bike throughout North Brooklyn with licensed NYC tour guides and
learn the history of Bushwick's Brewing community on the site of
Brewers Row - 14 blocks that once hosted over 20 Breweries throughout
the 19th century. From Brewers Row we head to The Boulevard --
Bushwick Avenue -- and gaze upon the last standing mansions of the
Beer Barons' heyday. Biking further East, we visit Evergreen Cemetary
and visit a veritable post-mortem Brewers' Row -- the plot of land
where many old German Brewing families are buried. Finally we return
to Williamsburg and the Brooklyn Brewery where we raise a toast to
the Breweries of yesteryear."

The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2:00pm-5:00pm; $25, includes two beers from the Brooklyn Brewery
21+ only
Questions? Call: 718-R-U-CIVIC | Email: matt@cityreliquary.org

#joiito NYC Meet & Geek

11:30 AM

#joiito NYC Meet & Geek (Lunch & Walking Tour)

Heartland Brewery
35 Union Square West

Net and game geek Joi Ito

"We'll meet at the Heartland Brewery, get lunch, then, quoth buridan:

"West to Hudson River park, down to Battery park, then up to the SoHo Apple Store (which will take us past JR Music World. All of which is a normal 5-miler on a Saturday"

Don't forget to bring your cameras!

Mother's Day Tea

Seating at 1:30 p.m. & 3 p.m.

Annual Mother’s Day Tea in the Garden

Merchant's House Museum
29 East Fourth Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel 212-777-1089

Celebrate this momentous day with a traditional
afternoon tea in our 19th-century Garden.

Scones served with clotted cream and jam,
finger sandwiches, frosted confections,
and pots of brewed English tea.

Join us for a tour of the Museum following the tea.

$50 per couple, members $40. One additional
guest per couple $20.

Reservations and prepayment required.

monuments and mausoleums

1PM

Walking tour of monuments and mausoleums of Green-Wood Cemetery begins; meet at the Gothic Arch inside the cemetery entrance, off 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn

Written In Stone: Tales of Green-Wood with Ruth Edebohls. The monuments and mausoleums of Green-Wood have many fascinating stories to tell and some of the most interesting are not about the famous. Visit the final resting places and hear the stories of the Indian Princess, the girl who died on her 17th birthday, the heart- broken husband who waved good-bye to his wife in the morning never to see her again, the man who built "The Funny Place", an inventor and his dog, and many more. Walk may be hilly and strenuous.

Restored Bethesda Arcade

11AM-2PM
Expert Guided Tours and Project Demonstrations
@ The Bethesda Arcade
Central Park
Mid-park at 72nd St

Yes, it's rainy outside - but this Central Park event is indoors! The Central Park Conservency employed a team of seven conservation technicians who cleaned and repaired by hand 14,000 of the 15,876 Minton tiles inside the building. Until 2PM you can attent guided tours of the arcade to learn more about its purpose, and the beautiful Minton tiles. Plus, Central Park is beautiful in the rainy.

Get Out

1PM
Chase Away the Winter Blues
@ Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
1000 Washington Avenue
Um, Brooklyn
718-623-7200
Free with $5 admission to the gardens

Starting to feel a little stir-crazy? Lynne Spevack, licensed clinical psychotherapist and veteran Brooklyn Botanic Garden tour guide, hosts this hour-long outdoor wintertime walk designed to take down the winter blues. Discover the plants and animals that enliven the garden landscape even in the "dead" of winter rain, snow, or shine.

Gangs of New York

1PM
The "Official" Gangs of New York Tour
@ Southeast corner of Broadway & Chambers St at City Hall Park
$15

A tour exploring the legends and lore of Five Points and Herbert Asbury’s 1928 classic The Gangs of New York – the inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s film. Stops include: Paradise Square, “Murderers Alley�, the African Burial Ground, the lost intersection of Five Points, and sites associated with Bill “The Butcher� Poole, William M. Tweed, Master Juba, and the 1857 Police and 1863 Draft Riots.

History, Mystery, Murder, and Money

10PM
History, Mystery, Murder, and Money Tour
@ Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge
Southwest corner of Chambers and Centre St /Park Row
Free

"A fascinating bicycle tour of dazzling and notorious lower Manhattan
that includes New York's legendary Five Points (scene of Scorcese's
movie Gangs of New York), the world's largest gold vault, and
arguably the single most important place in our nation's history."

Battery Park

5:30PM
Horticulture Tour of Battery Park
@ RSVP for location
212-206-9922
Free

Brought to you by Friends of the High Line

History & Design

11AM
History & Design of Union Sqaure
@ Meet at the Abe Lincoln Statue
Center of park at 16th Street, just south of the Pavilion
Free

You stayed inside all winter long and now that the weather is nice (knock on wood), it's time to get out and enjoy New York City.

First 50 people get discount at Barnes & Noble on design and NYC history books.

Murder Mysteries

2PM
Manhattan Murder Mysteries
@ Park Central Hotel (meeting place)
7th Ave and 56th St
212-969-8262

Walking tour of the city's crime scences.

Dandies, Dudes, & Shady Ladies

2PM
Dandies, Dudes, and Shady Ladies
@ meet at Astor Place
212-969-8262
$10

If you have nothing to do this afternoon, I would recommend checking out this walking tour. Explore the low life haunts of old NY, saloon culture, and the Bowery boys and girls.

Dumpster 101

8:30PM Buy Nothing Everyday! - Dumpster 101.

Got trampled by kids jamming for their xbox? or those
krazy mf trying to buy 200 dollar laptops. Peeps getting on line
and freezing overnight to charge throught store doors at 5am (wtf)
and then they charge charge charge. Black friday indeed.
That scene (also lead news story on every network another WTF)
really speaks volumes to our fugly culture.

Sunday night you can be indie and learn how to
Buy Nothing Everyday! - Dumpster 101.
Discussion & tour; Herald Square Market, at 6thAvenue,
(the east side) between 35th & 36th Streets. Freegan.info

Death at Home: Ghostly Tales and Tours by Candlelight

6 to 10PM
Merchant's House Museum
29 East 4th Street
Eight family funerals and nine deaths
took place in the Merchant's House.

Evening tours of the house draped in
black crepe and lit by flickering candles
will explore the rituals of death in the
19th century. $20

Algonoquin Round Table Walking Tour

Walking tours and lunch at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table are held monthly

Details

Uptown Symbolism + Signs + Saints

12:45 PM The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
will host "Saints and Signs," a talk about
signs and symbols located throughout the Cathedral.
Tickets are $10 per person. 112th Street
at Amsterdam Avenue; 1.212.932.7347

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Uptown Symbolism + Signs + Saints

12:45 PM The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
will host "Saints and Signs," a talk about
signs and symbols located throughout the Cathedral.
Tickets are $10 per person. 112th Street
at Amsterdam Avenue; 1.212.932.7347

[nyc]

Literary Pub Crawl

2PM Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl to your favorite West Village watering holes. Meet at the White Horse Tavern, 567 Hudson St. (betw. 10th & 11th Sts.), 212-613-5796; $15

LES Walking Tour

2PM A literary Lower East Side walking tour takes in the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the Forward building and neighborhood spots from the past. Includes readings by actors of Lower East Side stories; starts at Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge St.

Open House NY

10AM-4PM The High Line; 820 Washington St
1-4PM Jefferson Market Tower 425 Sixth Ave @10th While Martha waits for her new work assigment, go check out other pleoples houses. The above two gems are just two of many. There is losts more ohny.org . We ♥ this effort.

RNC NYC Tours

8AM-5PM RNC NYC Tours -
All tours start and finish @ NYC & Company
Visitor Information Center 810 Seventh Avenue
b/t 52nd + 53rd streets.

Salsa & Tango

SPiCE Summer Festival, Salsa & Tango on Pier 63
Pier 63, 23rd Street & West Side Hwy on the Hudson River

1.212-645-2441 Mondays through Sept. 13th
Salsa, tango + brazilian dancing overlooking the Hudson

Lessons 8pm, dancing 9pm-1am.
$20 first time entry fee, $12 thereafter

Marlon Brando Tour

Marlon Brando Tour, Walking tour to places where Marlon Brando was an elevator operator, lived, performed and studied. Sunday at 1 p.m. The fee is $20 per person. Rain or shine. Meeting place is 155 W. 58th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 475-6914.

Manhattan TV and Movie Tour

11AM (Daily) Manhattan TV and Movie Tour
Approx. 3 - 3.5 hours $30 per ticket
In front of Ellen's Stardust Diner.
(1650 Broadway, at the corner of 51st St and Broadway)
look for the tour guide holding the blue On Location Tours flag.

The Late Great Penn Station

1230PM The Late Great Penn Station
Walking tour by Lorraine B. Diehl
FREE

Explore the hidden history of Penn Station.
Meet at 34th Street Partnership Tourist info
kiosk in the Rotunda.

(considering this place used to make Grand Central look like a dump
the folks who razed it and rebuilt it to this mess should have to live
on tracks 18/19 low ceilings and all -ed)

Penn Station, 32nd Street and 7th Avenue.

High Line Tour

6PM
High Line Tour
Meet at 23rd St. + 11th Ave.
1-212-757-0981 x200; $8.

Greater Lower East Side Tour

1:15ON-5:15PM
Greater Lower East Side Tour

Licensed NYC guides
810 7th Ave. bet.
52-53 Street
718-339-2302

The Village + The Rowhouse

2PM
The Village + The Rowhouse

Explore the evolution of the residential
blocks of Greenwich Village adjoining
Washington Square.

Meet by the Washington Square Arch
Washington Square.

Subway Centennial: Architecture In Transit

11AM
Subway Centennial: Architecture In Transit
Explore a century’s worth of architectural styles
Meet at Times Square Station,
Track 1, Shuttle Platform.

Tour of the New York Fed

930PM
Tour of the New York Fed

Learn about the central banking functions
that the Federal Reserve System performs
and see the Bank's vault of international
monetary gold on the bedrock of Manhattan
Island, five stories below street level.

Reservations are required. Also
Friday, May 28.

The Federal Reserve Bank of NY,
33 Liberty Street Free
www.ny.frb.org

1-212-720-6130

Cross Park Promenade Walk

1130AM
Cross Park Promenade Walk
Walk explores the wonders of Central Park.
Meet at 5th Avenue and East 72nd Street
FREE
1-212-310-6600.

Surveillance Camera Tours Cancelled

2PM

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, ALL WALKING TOURS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.

We check facts so were checking the details of today's scheduled walking tour
by the Surveillance Camera Players. Todays focus was to be the area around
the Republican National Convention

When we checked their site, this messge was posted:

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, ALL WALKING TOURS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.
Information presented for educational and informational purposes only.
Not intended for use in the commission of any crime or act of war.

(No comment - ed)

I know we had some tech problems last week but if this site
goes bye bye again or we do you will know why.

Surveillance Camera Walking Tour

2pm

Surveillance Camera
Walking Tour of Chelsea;
NE 8th Ave & 14th St,
given by the Surveillance Camera Players
212 561 0106

Surveillance Camera Tour

2PM

Surveillance Camera Tour of the
Washington Square Park;
NE MacDougal & W 4th St,
given by the Surveillance Camera Players

1-212-561-0106

Scavenger Hunt

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HYSTERIA SCAVENGER HUNT
Saturday, January 3, 3 to 5:30 p.m.
Please note that this hunt is designed for adults
(there is a hunt for families in February).
Price: $20 plus museum admission.

Walking Tour

Union Square Neighborhood Walking Tour - Union Square Park Free Union Square neighborhood walking tour. Every Saturday at 2pm, seasoned tour guide Karl-Michael Emyrs can be found in front of the Lincoln statue near the pavilion building off the 16th Street transverse.
212-460-1204

Tribeca Walking Tour

New York City Cultural Walking Tours

Tour of the Tribeca area, sites include the Bogardus Triangle, Western Union Building, the Hopkins Store, Tribeca Grill ...