Tours are offered by the Lower East Side History Project, an award winning non-profit organization dedicated to local research, education and preservation. Learn more here.
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Once the godforsaken broken heart of the ghetto, the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth, built over an industrial wasteland, then abandoned to a wild mix of marginal artists, angry anarchists, gangs, dealers, excons and thieves, against a backdrop of urban blight, tenements burned to rubble and danger on every corner out of which grew jazz and the beat generation, graffiti art and punk rock, the squatters movement, the garden movement and radical underground cinema: there's more to Alphabet City than meets the eye, stories that could happen only in metropolis' darkest corner PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO TOUR ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
When: Every Monday at 2:00pm Your Guide:
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Mondays @ 2:00pm
Rob Hollander, Ph.D, a native East Side New Yorker, author, researcher and licensed tour guide, moved into Alphabet City in the 1970's, during its most desperate years of poverty, and has never left. A neighborhood preservationist and community activist, Hollander earns his living as an academic linguist and early music vocalist while contributing articles to various online media sources and published works on, among other subjects, tenement architecture and local history.