Ethnic NY: Chinatown, Little Italy, African Burial Ground & Irish Five Points
Tour and learn about the American dream in New York City's Immigrant neighborhoods of the growing Chinatown, shrinking Little Italy, spiritual African Burial Ground and long vanished Irish Five Points.
Pay respects at the African Burial Ground in the midst of NYC's courthouse district. A short block away is Columbus Park and the original Five Points neighborhood. Soak up the stories of the Sportin' Men and Hot Corn Girls of the early 1800's, which led to the birth of urban street culture. Hear tales of New York's original Gangs, the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery B'hoys and how crusading journalist Jacob Riis and the invention of the flashbulb led to reforms for America's immigrant classes.
Charge ahead into Chinatown and see the hanging Peking Ducks in Mott Street restaurants, smell the glistening fish stalls and pungent fruit markets. Conclude by crossing Canal Street into Little Italy and learn what makes it so "little". Understand the struggles of the contadini melding their old world customs to this strange New World.
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Tour Little Italy, NYC
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Matt in NYC's Chinatown
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Gangs of New York tour in costume
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Tour Chinatown's tiny side streets
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Historic Little Italy
