New York City

Tenement Housing and Immigrant Life: A Lower East Side Story

New York City, USA
The Disastrous History of Housing the Poor A Walking Tour the Lower East Side
  • 2 to 3 hours
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

Overview

Enrich your understanding of New York as a city of immigrants, exiles, and refugees on this walking tour of the Lower East Side. With an informative guide leading the way, learn about the African burial ground beneath the city’s pavement, the Italian slum of Mulberry Bend, the Five Points neighborhood of “Gangs of New York” fame, and the waves of poor immigrants who called this corner of lower Manhattan home.
  • Explore the Lower East Side’s past as an immigrant enclave with a guide
  • Learn about the neighborhood’s notoriously wretched living conditions
  • Choose a convenient morning or afternoon tour to suit your travel schedule
  • Visit the Five Points neighborhood from the film 'Gangs of New York'

What's Included

  • Local guide
  • Professional guide
  • Gratuities

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

  • Centre Street
    Centre St, New York, NY, USA

    Tour starts nearby the sculpture, Triumph of the Human Spirit, at Foley Square

End point

  • Hotel Indigo Lower East Side New York, an IHG Hotel
    171 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002, USA

    We end overlooking the streets we walked from the upper floor lobby of the Indigo Hotel where we will be able to identify the various eras of tenement laws from a birds-eye perspective.

What To Expect

Foley Square

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Columbus Park

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Lower East Side (Pass By)

Manhattan Bridge (Pass By)

Museum at Eldridge Street (Pass By)

Seward Park (Pass By)

Forward Building (Pass By)

Tenement Museum

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Williamsburg Bridge (Pass By)

Allen Street (Pass By)

Hotel Indigo Lower East Side New York, an IHG Hotel

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
  • wear comfortable walking shoes
  • snacks and water are recommended to revitalize
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Reviews

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Scam
Cam_J, Apr 2020
Our tickets printed from the website had 10 a.m. at one point and 1 p.m. at another. We saw 1 p.m. and didn't question it to look the ticket over to see a different time elsewhere. We showed up at the statue at 1 p.m. waited 20 minutes and no one showed. Then we scrutinized the tickets and saw two different times listed. Apparently 10 a.m. was correct and 1 p.m. was a misprint. We walked to the Tenement Museum, which we thought from your website, we had to take one of your tours to get in. When we showed them the tickets to see if we could still get in, they said the tour had nothing to do with them. I don't see any way I could search the Tenement Museum and end up on your website led to believe the only way we could visit it was to take one of your tours, without being intentionally mislead by you, just as we were mislead by your tickets. I feel scammed.
Response from Host, Apr 2020
Why wouldn't you have contacted me sooner? Of course you can get a refund. Sorry about the two times printed on your ticket, there was a window of time when that was happening but it's been fixed. And as far as the Tenement Museum, people have made that mistake before and I've gone out of my way to make it clear that I am not associated with the museum (it's a wonderful museum, but I am different). The problem is with the Viator algorithm, this tour of tenement history shows up when you search Tenement Museum, that's because the Tenement Museum doesn't offer their own tours through the Viator platform but they are listed as a "site" on the platform and not a "tour". I've complained to Viator a number of times about this confusion for fear of this very thing. As you can see by my reviews, of course, this is not a scam and I'll gladly refund your money. So sorry about your experience.
Such an Interesting Tour
Daydream09537729925, Nov 2019
My friend and loved this tour! The guide is so incredibly knowledgeable, we left having learned a lot. Learning about what it was like to immigrate to NYC is so interesting. This tour is a great complement to the things you learn about at Ellis Island and the Tenement Museum. If you are concerned about this being redundant to those things, it is not!
Response from Host, Nov 2019
Thank you so much for such a great review! You were really great to have on the tour and I hope I see you again--all best wishes, Rob
Excellent tour!
abbeflitter, Oct 2019
Robert was an incredibly knowledgeable tour guide. He brought the immigrant experience to life for us. We’re still talking about the hidden corners of the lower east side - those easily missed - he found for us.
Walking Tour - Senior Couple
heidibaker5609, Aug 2019
This was a walking tour of where the tenements were located. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and distributed handouts that contained early photos of the outside environments and geographical changes over time. There were photos of the inside of tenements as well. We toured the area for 2 hours with guide pointing out important structures. Would liked to have toured an example.
Response from Host, Sep 2019
It was a pleasure taking you both around, and thank you for your review. All best wishes and I hope to see you again.
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