Walking Tour: Central Park & A Vision of Cohesive Society

Puritans, Immigrants, Slaves – Central Park and a Vision of Cohesive Society: A new way of seeing an old classic. The Erie Canal and industrial expansion propelled New York City to the economic forefront in 1800s America. People flooded in to seek opportunity. Yet, inadequate housing and sanitation bred epidemics and squalor. Old World monarchs and aristocrats and Southern plantation owners derided the Yankee and his unholy metropolis. Join us to discover how the stewards of New York development addressed these problems, while hoping to elevate American culture and unite the city’s disparate classes, religions and ethnicities through the gift of a Central Park.

Meet in front of 910 5th Avenue

NW corner of 5th Avenue and 72nd Street, New York, NY 10021