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"No other city is so spitefully incoherent." --James Baldwin, writer and activist
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Manhattan Unlocked Historical and Architectural Walking Tours
Discover hidden-in-plain-sight history and decode the streetscapes of Manhattan on our multi-faceted walking tours where history and architecture meld. Manhattan Unlocked answers the question every New Yorker has asked, "why is this building next to that building, and that building next to this building?" We take that question to its logical conclusion and let the built environment--the city itself--tell its own story!
We realized there's more to the million-and-one things to be seen on the surface of the city today. Manhattan Unlocked takes into account ancient geography and historic transit, in addition to commerce, architecture, immigration and everything else, to explain the city's growth and development. In fact, New York City can only be understood from an all-of-history, holistic point of view.
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Manhattan Unlocked is both a blog and a walking tour company. All tours begin and end at different locations in Manhattan.
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Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour
Midtown West, Times Square, Rockefeller Center & Park Avenue
Holdouts! Based on the Book by Alpern & Durst
Midtown East, Grand Central & Rockefeller Center
Recreate the Most Requested Walking Tour of 1840s New York
Astor Place, NoHo, SoHo, Chinatown & the Civic Center (Foley Square)
Tenement Housing and Immigrant Life: A Lower East Side Story
Foley Square, Chinatown & The Lower East Side
Explore the Ruins of a Forgotten City in the Middle of Manhattan
Madison Square, Nomad, the Flatiron District & Chelsea
The last time a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice was in 1638. Back then, New Amsterdam had a population of about 300 people speaking more than a dozen languages. If the eclipse had been visible in this part of the world, here’s what they would have seen…
Thank you for posting these pictures! I am in central Europe and the eclipse wasn't visible here. We couldn't even see the moon through all the clouds over Prague last night. Thanks to Amy Vogeltanz who shared your blog link on facebook. Great pictures, thanks again!
Thank you for posting these pictures! I am in central Europe and the eclipse wasn't visible here. We couldn't even see the moon through all the clouds over Prague last night. Thanks to Amy Vogeltanz who shared your blog link on facebook. Great pictures, thanks again!
ReplyDeleteThat's just about the coolest thing ever.
ReplyDeleteBobby...very cool..it's raining and cloudy here in Vegas...
ReplyDeleteThat is neat. I wish that I could have seen it, but the clouds were too thick for that.
ReplyDeletegood job Robert. wouln't know, I was asleep.
ReplyDeleteI stood outside along for maybe 5 minutes. It was beautiful, but very cold, and no one else was out.
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