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Looking for a special adventure, gift,
or organizational event?

Enjoy leisurely walking tours through time and space in the company of a professional whose research has unearthed a treasure of fascinating stories, both serious and light-hearted, about New York City and its people.

Joyce Gold History Tours of New York, LLC offers historic walking tours of New York City. These include an itinerary of Scheduled WalkingTours, Private or Custom Walking Tours, Presentations and Talks, and Individual Tour Planning. Walking tours will fascinate both long time residents and visitors alike.

And now, especially for parents and teachers and children — Download "Learning on Foot: New York Walking Tours", by Joyce Gold of Joyce Gold History Tours of New York, (appears in the Parents League of New York, 2007 Review).

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Featured Walking Tour...

HARLEM — KEYSTONE OF AFRICAN AMERICA
November 22, 2008
 
On Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 1 pm, Manhattan historian Joyce Gold
will present a walking tour through the history of Harlem.

In the 1880s, the new elevated railroad converted Harlem from a rural district into tracts of beautiful homes for wealthy New Yorkers. By the 1920s, downtown development and the new subway changed the neighborhood into one of the nation's most famous African-American communities.

Highlights of the tour include:
       •  The birth of jazz and sites of the artistic and literary Harlem
            Renaissance
       •  Strivers Row, Sugar Hill, and Hamilton Heights
       •  Abyssinian Baptist Church
       •  1 of world's greatest collections dedicated to the study of
            black culture

The walk begins in front of City College, at 138th St. and Amsterdam Avenue. The closest subway is the #1 train to 137th St., then walk up the 138th St. hill for 1 block. The tour costs $15 per person ($3 discount for seniors 65+) and no reservations are needed.

Joyce Gold teaches New York history at New York University and the New School for Social Research. She has published guidebooks to the history of the Financial District and Greenwich Village and contributed entries to The Encyclopedia of New York City.

 

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