HDC’s Six to Celebrate Tours!

Come join us for a series of tours throughout 2011, highlighting our Six to Celebrate neighborhoods. On September 17th we will tour The Bowery, one of Manhattan’s oldest thoroughfares, stretching from Cooper Square to Chatham Square. The area has a fascinatingly rich history, ranging from a fashionable shopping and residential neighborhood at the end of the 18th century, to a bustling center of dry goods, hardware and other specialty stores, to an entertainment mecca and later the notorious “skid row” in the 20th century. In recent years, the mix of historic structures along the street has been threatened by high-rise development. Join Eric Ferrara, founder and executive director of the Lower East Side History Project, as he recounts the people, places and stories that made this fabled thoroughfare.

Date: October 22nd, 11am
Location: Meeting location and directions for this tour will be provided upon registration. Tours generally last approximately two hours.
Fee: $10 per person/$5 for Friends of HDC, Seniors and Students.

“Presented in association with Archtober, Architecture and Design Month New York City.”
(Link to www.archtober.org.)