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May
9
11:00 AM11:00
2015 Walks, New York, USA

One World Oneida Square Neighborhood Garden and Architecture Walk

  • Oneida Street Utica, NY, United States (map)
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Come meet your neighbors and join in the festivities at the Utica One World Flower Fest in Oneida Square. Join us for two Jane Jacobs Walks that will enlighten participants about the architectural beauty, heritage and safety of the diverse neighborhood defined as the Oneida Square area.

Date: Saturday May 9, 2015

Times:

1st Walk: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m

2nd Walk: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Event Start/End: 

  • BEGIN Meet In Oneida Square -- the first walk will cover the west side and the second walk will explore the east side where other Oneida Square One World Flower Festival events will happen

Host: Gina Murtagh

Theme: Architecture & Neighborhood Garden

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to Wheelchairs, Bicycles, Seniors, Children.

Registration: No, all are welcome. 

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May
2
12:00 PM12:00
New York, 2015 Walks

New York, NY: Teeming Tenements Transformed: A Lower East Side Walking Tour

  • 108 Orchard St NY, NY, 10002 United States (map)
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The guided tour will focus on the history and architecture of the Lower East Side with particular attention to the housing, institutions and businesses that were the center of immigrant life. The tour will highlight the impact of housing reforms reflected in the changes to the plans and features of tenements over time. “We will see pre-Old Law, Old Law and New Law tenements and look up at the elaborate terra cotta ornamentation that distinguishes many buildings,” said Mitchell Grubler, the tour’s leader.
 
Although endangered, a number of blocks south of Delancey Street still retain the sense of place that would be familiar to our immigrant ancestors. “The Lower East Side is where millions of immigrants have taken their first steps in the New World on the road to the American Dream,” wrote Joyce Mendelsohn, tour co-leader and author of the definitive guidebook to the area, 'The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited.' The structures that housed some of the institutions and businesses which served the multitudes of immigrants will also be highlighted. The tour will pass a Neo-Renaissance style school designed by architect, C.B.J. Snyder in 1897; the former Good Samaritan/Eastern District Dispensary built in 1890; the 12-story former Jarmulowsky Bank of 1911-12; as well as a number of other significant buildings.

Find out more at Friends of the Lower East Side

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2015, Rain Date: Saturday, May 9, 2015

Time: 12 noon - 2:00 pm

Event Start/End:
Start: The southeast corner of Delancey and Orchard Streets, New York, NY
End: TBA

Host: Friends of the Lower East Side, friendsoftheles@gmail.com

Registration: No, all are welcome

Accessibility:  Adults capable of walking 1 1/2 miles

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New York, NY: Upper West Side Urban Renewal: Blight or Right in the Sight of Jane?
May
2
11:00 AM11:00
New York, USA

New York, NY: Upper West Side Urban Renewal: Blight or Right in the Sight of Jane?

  • 325 Central Park West New York, NY, 10025 United States (map)
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Looking down 100th Street from Central Park West: On the north side what Jane loved—tenements, store fronts, a remnant of the old neighborhood where the ghosts of Billie Holiday, James Weldon Johnson, and Arthuro Schomberg still hover. On the south side—what Moses wrought—towering Park West Village with Le Corbusier the spectral presence. Question (with sixty years hindsight): the West Side lives and thrives because of or in spite of urban renewal? We’ll walk 100th Street and nearby streets taking into consideration what urban renewal did and did not deliver in regard to low and moderate income housing, mixed-use development, and neighborhood vitality.

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2015

Time(s): 11:00 AM start

Event Start/End: 

  • BEGIN 325 Central Park West (between 92nd and 93rd St)
  • End: 400 Central Park West (at 100th St), back garden

Post Walk Picnic (optional): by the pond nearest the 100th St entrance to Central Park at the Firemen statue in Washington Square Park, near the corner of Columbus Ave and Filbert St.

Host: Lynne Elizabeth, New Village Press hello@newvillagepress.net

Theme: Walking

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to Wheelchairs, Bicycles, Seniors, Children, an easy walk along paved sidewalks.

Registration: No, all are welcome.

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Ithaca, NY: Collegetown Conversations
May
1
4:00 PM16:00
New York, USA

Ithaca, NY: Collegetown Conversations

Meet in front of the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on College Ave for a tour of Collegetown of about an hour and a little over a mile. Collegetown is the intersection between Cornell University and the City of Ithaca. Learn about the history & what makes this area special. Hear about what has changed and what is likely to change in this dynamic pedestrian oriented neighborhood.

The walk co-leaders are: Max Weisbrod, max@mweisbrod.com; Daniel Keough, danielkeough@gmail.com; Isabella Crowley, ic264@cornell.edul; Josh Lower, jl4222@gmail.com.

Date: Friday, May 1, 2015

Time(s): 4:00 PM

Event Start/End: 

BEGIN in front of the Schwartz Performing Arts Center, 430 College Avenue.

Hosts: Max Weisbrod, Daniel Keough, Isabellea Crowley, Josh Lower

Theme: Walking

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to Children.

Registration: No, all are welcome

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