The Amazing Three Squares Walking Tour: Union Square, Gramercy Park and Madison Square
Sat, Nov 05
|New York
Magnificent architecture, New York Stories and colorful history await you on this guided tour!
Time & Location
Nov 05, 2022, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
New York, 33 E 17th St, New York, NY 10003, USA
Guests
About the event
This is tour is free with optional donation to your guide (pay what you wish). Meeting place is outside the Barnes and Noble. Arrive early to use the restrooms (2nd and 3rd floor).
Required: Proof of full vaccination.
We'll start out at Union Square with a visit to the four freedoms monuments (Lincoln, Gandhi, Washington and Lafayette). Union Square was at one time the city's most popular entertainment district and was used for parades, marches and political rallies (and still is on occasion).
At Gramercy Park, one of NYC's first planned neighborhoods in the 1830s, we'll learn about the actor Edwin Booth, who founded The Players Club (and brother of the Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth), and the see the former mansion of NY State Governor Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden has figured prominently in history not only as because he helped establish the NY Public Library but as a candidate…