Immigrant New York

The Original Big Onion Walking Tour!
Immigrant New York explores the experiences of the different immigrant and ethnic populations residing in the Lower East Side from the early 19th century through today. We’ll walk through Chinatown, Little Italy, the Jewish East Side, and former Five Points. We will “peel away the layers of history” while discuss housing, places of worship and street life to see how everyone got along (or didn’t) at different times. Some stops include: the Tweed Courthouse, the African Burial Ground, infamous Mulberry Bend, the Bowery, sites associated with Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Jacob Riis, Abraham Cahan, Emma Goldman and many others.

Related Tours:

Chinatown
Gangs of New York
Irish New York
Jewish Lower East Side

Tour Highlights:

Architecture
Culture
Downtown
History

Schedule:

May 24, 11:00 am
May 27, 11:00 am
June 7, 2:00 pm
June 17, 11:00 am
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Meet:

The southeast corner of Broadway & Chambers Street, at City Hall Park. 


Subway Trains:

4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge, 1/2/3/A/C/E to Chambers Street, R to City Hall.
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FAQ:

Tours last approximately two hours. We generally present tours rain or shine.
Check the local weather forecast.
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Cost:

Adults: $20
Students/Seniors/BHS Members: $15

We do not require pre-payment for most public tours. Just show up and join us at the meeting site. Exceptions: Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour requires reservations; America’s Museum Tour requires reservations & advance payment.

Tours Today Wednesday, May 22nd

1:00 Chelsea and the High Line
Tour Status: All tours running as scheduled.
Group Tours

All tours are available for private walks and group bookings.

Call (212) 439-1090 ext. 5 or Email us for more information.

As Featured In:

"For most of my life, I believed independent travel was the only route to the real unfiltered stuff. I eschewed group experiences like the plague, most of all, anything incorporating the word tour. My mistake. I’ve gained some of my best travel memories from being herded around with a bunch of strangers on a Big Onion Walking Tour."

Peter Jon Lindberg, Travel + Leisure's editor-at-large, January 2009.