East Village — Bowery to Tompkins Square · 11 stops
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East Village — Bowery to Tompkins Square
Midtown, New York
11 stops · ~15 min
About 45 min walk · 11 stories · Free
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Start: CBGB — —
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The walk starts at CBGB. Please use headphones and keep audio private.
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- Start anywhere in the park. For the full route, begin at CBGB. Directions
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Eleven stories from CBGB to the General Slocum Memorial — the Merchant's House, the Public Theater, Cooper Union, McSorley's and St.
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Stops
1
CBGB
where punk found a home on the Bowery
2
Merchant's House Museum
a family home frozen for a century
3
The Public Theater
a free library reborn as a stage
4
The Astor Place Riot
Shakespeare, class rage, and gunfire, 1849
5
Lincoln at Cooper Union
the speech that made a president
6
McSorley's Old Ale House
light or dark, and no ladies until 1970
7
Ottendorfer Library
Little Germany's gift that still lends books
8
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
Peter Stuyvesant never left
9
Veselka
a rainbow on the corner since 1954
10
Tompkins Square, August 1988
the night the park fought back
11
The General Slocum Memorial
Little Germany's day of grief
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