From Walking Tours to Gospel Tours, New York Offers it All
If you want to learn more about New York City mayhem, Radical Walking Tours of New York City features a series of 12 different tours exploring New York's radical landmarks. For only $10, Author Bruce Kayton will lead you to some of the most pivotal sites in the history of organized labor, civil rights, gay rights, free expression and world peace. The Radical Lovers Tour features sites associated with such notable couples as Max Eastman and Florence Deshon, John Reed and Louise Bryant and Eugene O'Neill, Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman, and Free Love advocate Victoria Woodhull.
A Radical Walking Tour of Harlem features all of the great African-American New Yorkers who lived or worked in the neighborhood and includes several Malcolm X sites, The Black Panthers' headquarters, Langston Hughes' house, Marcus Garvey's rowhouse, The Schomburg Center for Black Culture and the Harlem Hospital. A tour of the East Village features the many riots at Tompkins Square Park, Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant, anti-slavery activist Isaac Hopper, Abbie Hoffman's front row seat to the 1960's cultural revolution, and even shows where Leon Trotsky worked in 1917 before leaving for Russia.
Howard Goldberg founded Adventures on a Shoestring in 1963 with the motto "Exploring the world within our reach...within our means." These $5 tours happen anywhere and everywhere in the city, and span from the normal to the sublimely weird. Past adventures have included Beekman Place and Sutton Place, a walk through the elegant neighborhood in the East 50s, passing the site where Nathan Hale was sentenced to death by General Howe, the former homes of Irving Berlin and Greta Garbo, and the Abigail Adams Smith House. A Martin Luther King Jr. Day tour went to 125th Street in Harlem, the most famous Afro-American community in the United States, with stops at the legendary Apollo Theater, the New Harlem USA shopping plaza and featured an optional soul food lunch. A Haunted Greenwich Village tour visited a haunted firehouse and townhouse, the narrowest house in NYC (only 9 1/2 feet wide) and the former homes of Aaron Burr and Washington Irving. Visit City Search for future tours.
If you want something more specialized, you can tour the Central Park Wildlife Center, where trained volunteers guide you through three different climates; allow you to meet red pandas and learn about penguins. You can also see animals of the tropic,
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