Practical Considerations: tours are 1 ½ to 2 hours long and between 1 ½ and 2 milesin length except the Jewish Heritage of the Lower East Side which is between 2 ½ and3 hours long.

Child-friendly Ramble: tour designed for children from ages 9 to 12 years of age. Tours are 45 to 60 minutes long and less than one mile long.

Weather: Tours are usually given regardless of weather. Telephone to make sure that there are no changes, cancellations or up-dates in the schedule.

Starting Times: Participants are requested to arrive 15 minutes before hour departure times.

No reservations are required.

Special Schedule for the 350th Anniversary of the American Jewish Experience
Last updated 3/4/04

We are celebrating 350 years of the American Jewish Experience. For a complete introduction, click here

PRIVATE TOURS CAN BE ARRANGED! AND CUSTOMIZED!

Passover Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
10:30 AM and 1:30 PM, Sunday, April 4
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

Passover Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
10:30 AM and 1:30 PM, Sunday, April 11
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America. Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

The Jews and the Gangs of New York
1:30 PM, Sunday, April 18
Discover the Jewish Connection to "The Gangs of New York." Examine the underside of Jewish immigrant life as we deromanticize such Jewish gangsters as "Little" Augie, "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Arnold Rothstein, "Kid" Dropper, and a feminist pioneer in organized crime, "Mama" Frederika Mandelbaum.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

The Boris Thomashefsky Yiddish Theatrical Memorial Tour
1:30 PM, Sunday, April 25
This tour concentrates on Yiddish theaters, former Yiddish theaters, and sites associated with the Yiddish theater.
Meeting Place: In front of the Second Avenue Deli, 156 Second Avenue at the corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street.
Fee: $20 (The cross street is 10th Street.)

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
1:30 PM, Sunday, May 2
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

Emma Lazarus and the American Dream: The Jewish Heritage of Washington Square
1:30 PM, Sunday, May 9
See the home of Emma Lazarus, the favorite hanging tree of the Jewish sheriff of New York County, the Triangle Waist Shirt Factory Site, and much more.
Meeting Place: In front of the Washington Square Arch where Fifth Avenue beings. The cross street is Washington Square North.
Fee: $15

The Jews and the Gangs of New York
10:30 AM, Sunday, May 16
Discover the Jewish Connection to "The Gangs of New York." Examine the underside of Jewish immigrant life as we deromanticize such Jewish gangsters as "Little" Augie, "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Arnold Rothstein, "Kid" Dropper, and a feminist pioneer in organized crime, "Mama" Frederika Mandelbaum.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
1:30 PM, Sunday, June 6
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

The Molly Picon Yiddish Theatrical Memorial Tour
10:30 AM, Sunday, June 20
We will see some of the sites associated with the Yiddish theater greats including Molly Picon, of course, Lee J. Cobb, Sarah Adler, and Boris Tomashevsky.
Meeting Place: In front of the Second Avenue Deli, 156 Second Avenue, at the corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street. The cross street is Tenth Street.
Fee: $15

The Multicultural East Village
1:30 PM, Sunday, June 20
Traces the cultural imprints left by many immigrant groups from American Indians to Asian Indians, Africans and Middle Easterners, Irish and Italians, Jews and Koreans, Dutch and English, Poles and Ukrainians, and more.
Meeting Place: In front of the Second Avenue Deli, 156 Second Avenue, at the corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street. The cross street is Tenth Street.
Fee: $15

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
1:30 PM, Sunday, June 27
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

The Jews and the Gangs of New York
1:30 PM, Sunday, July 11
Discover the Jewish connection to the "Gangs of New York." Examine the underside of Jewish immigrant life as we deromanticize and demythologize such Jewish gangsters as "Little" Augie," "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Arnold Rothstein, "Kid Dropper,' and a feminist pioneer in organized crime, "Mama" Frederika Mandelbaum. Meeting Place: Firs Rouamian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

When Harlem was Yiddish
10:30 AM, Sunday, July 18
Take a tour of what was once the greatest Jewish community after the Lower East Side at the beginning of the twentieth century. See the synagogues, shops and homes of the Jewish immigrants and their children.
Meeting Place: Meeting Place: In front of Bill Clinton's Office, 55 West 125th St. The cross street is Fifth Ave.
Fee: $15

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
1:30 PM, Sunday, July 18
Visit sit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian-American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

Four Chinatowns tour
1:30 PM, Sunday, July 26
Discover the Irish, Italian, Jewish and Chinese heritage of Chinatown.
Meeting Place: Northwest Corner of Canal Street and Bowery at the Petrella News Stand. The cross street is Canal Street.
Fee: $15

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
1:30 PM, Sunday, August 8
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

Abe Cahan's Yiddish New York
1:30 PM, Sunday, August 15
Explore the world of the Jewish Lower East Side as seen through the eyes of its leading editor as we walk from his home to his office at The Forward to his home.
Meeting Place: In front of the Forward Building, 175 East Broadway. The Cross streets are Canal and Essex Streets.
Fee: $15

Emma Lazarus and the Jewish Heritage of Washington Square
1:30 PM, Sunday, August 22
See the home of Emma Lazarus, the favorite hanging tree of the Jewish sheriff of New York County, the Triangle Waist Shirt Factory Site, and much more. Meeting Place: In front of the Washington Square Arch where Fifth Avenue beings. The cross street is Washington Square North.
Fee: $15

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
1:30 PM, Sunday, August 29
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America. Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
10:30 and 1:30 PM, Sunday, September 12
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets. Fee: $15

Jewish Lower East Side Talk and Walk
10:30 and 1:30 PM, Sunday, September 19
Visit a great appetizing emporium, and other good places to eat as well as the oldest synagogue building in New York City, and other sites that mark the birthplace of Jewish civilization in America.
Meeting Place: First Roumanian American Synagogue, 89 Rivington Street between Ludlow and Orchard Streets.
Fee: $15

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