Museum: 2 for 1 Admission

Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Location: 70 Mulberry St. 2nd floor
Telephone: 212-619-4785

Walking Tours: 15% off

Susan Sez Immigrant Experience Walkabout
The Immigrant Experience: Learn a little of this and a little of that as we stroll along East Broadway from Seward Park to Chatham Square. Explore the streets of New York's Chinese and Jewish immigrants. See one of NYC's oldest burial grounds, and the Settlement House that transformed many immigrants into U.S. citizens. We will visit several historic synagogues as well as the Church of the Transfiguration, First Chinese Presbyterian Church, and Sung Tak Buddhist Temple. Other stops will include Mott Street, Five Points and Canal Street.

Tour Dates: 11/2, 11/16, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 (see full schedule)
Start Time: 3:00 p.m. Finish Time: 5:00 p.m.
Departure Location: Seward Park: Canal & Essex Streets
Reservations:
Tel: 917-509-3111
Email: susan.birnbaum2@verizon.net
Website: www.susansez.com
Regular rate: Adult: 15, Child: 12, Senior: 12
Discount rate: Adult-12.75, Child-10.20, Senior: 10.20

Funny, You Don't Look Jewish: Chinatown Meets the Lower East Side
A historic tour of the traditional portal to New York City and the U.S. for wave after wave of immigrant groups. Participants will see a resurgence of Orthodox Jewish residents, the large Fujianese Chinese presence in what was once an Eastern European "shetl" and the latest "immigrants": the young and hip.

Tour Dates: 11/14, 11/21, 12/12, 12/19
Start Time: 1:30 p.m. Finish Time: 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Departure Location: Russ & Daughters - 179 East Houston Street (bet. Allen & Orchard Streets)
Reservations:
Tel: 718-626-7136
Email: nydean@verizon.net
Regular rate: Adult: 15, Child: 7, Senior: 10
Discount rate: Adult: 12.75, Child: 5.95, Senior: 8.50

Gangs of New York and the Bloody Five Points: A Historical Walk Through Chinatown
The famous 19th-century immigrant neighborhood, the notorious Five Points, with its areas Paradise Square, Cow Bay and Bottle Alley and its gangs the Roach Guards, Plug Uglies and Dead Rabbits.

Tour Date: 11/27/04
Start Time: 1:00 p.m. Finish Time: 3:00 p.m.
Departure Location: Bayard Street (1 block south of Canal St.) & The Bowery, NW corner
Reservations: Not necessary
Tel: 212-242-5762
Fax: 212-242-6374
Email: nyctours@aol.com
Regular rate: Adult: 12, Child: 6, Senior: 12
Discount Rate: Adult: 10.20, Child: 5.10, 10.20

Exploring Historic Chinatown
Join historians Michelle and James Nevius for an exploration of the cultural, architectural and historical layers of Chinatown. This tour traces the development of the area from its days as bucolic Dutch pastureland through the rise of the predominantly Irish Five Points neighborhood and on to its present life as the largest Chinese community in America.

Among the many stops on the tour: The burial ground of Congregation Shearith Israel, the first Jewish congregation in America (celebrating its 350th Anniversary in 2004); Mott Street, the first Chinese Street in New York, and still the center of "old" Cantonese Chinatown; the Church of the Transfiguration-where Irish, Italian and Chinese cultures merge; typical tenement apartment housing, including the city's oldest; and East Broadway, the spine of "new" Fujianese Chinatown.

This heavily illustrated tour uses maps, drawings and photographs to show the changes that have taken place-and the things that remain unchanged-over the last 400 years in this neighborhood.

Tour Dates: 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29, 12/6, 12/17, 12/20, 12/27
Start Time: 10:00 a.m. Finish Time: 12:00 p.m.
Tour Dates: 12/17
Start Time: 3:00 p.m. Finish Time: 5:00 p.m.
Departure Location: Kim Lau Memorial Arch in Chatham Square
Reservations:
Tel: 877-572-9719
Fax: 877-572-9719
Email: info@walknyc.com
Website: http://www.walknyc.com/chinatown.htm
Regular rate: Adult: 12.50, Child: 7-or-Under Free, Senior: 12.50
Discount rate: Adult: 10.60, Senior: 10.60

Experience Chinatown Walking Tour
The Museum of Chinese in the Americas is pleased to offer walking tours of Chinatown, one of New York City's oldest neighborhoods! MoCA guides who have family or personal roots in the community will offer an inside look at Chinatown's transformation from a "Bachelor Society" to the diverse community it is today. The tour ventures through the historic center of Chinatown, including stops such as the Church of the Transfiguration, Columbus Park, Confucius Plaza, former sites of Port Arthur Restaurant and Doyers Street Chinese Theatre. Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of this dynamic community while learning about the area's roots and the various people who have settled here throughout the centuries.

Tour Dates: 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18
Start Time: 1:00 p.m. Finish Time: 2:30 p.m.
Departure Location: Museum of Chinese in the Americas, 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor
Reservations:
Tel: 212-619-4785
Email: info@moca-nyc.org
Regular rate: Adult: 12, Child: 5-and-Under Free, Senior: 6, Student: 6
Discount rate: Adult: 10.20, Senior: 5.10, Student: 5.10

Chinatown Cultural Tour
An exploration into the daily life of Chinatown residents, we will visit a Chinese community center, a Chinese kindergarten, a Chinese public school, a senior center, a Buddhist temple and Chinatown landmarks. There will be opportunities to meet local Chinatown dignitaries. Join us to learn how the Chinese people live, work and play. Tour itineraries subject to change.

Tour Dates: 11/3 - 11/7, 11/10 - 11/14, 11/24 - 11/28, 12/1 - 12/5, 12/8 - 12/9, 12/11 - 12/12, 12/15 - 12/19, 12/22 - 12/25, 12/29 - 12/31
Start Time: 12:00 Finish Time: 1:00
Start Time: 2:00 Finish Time: 3:00
Start Time: 4:00 Finish Time: 5:00
Departure Location: 245 Grand Street (bet. The Bowery and Chrystie Street)
Reservations:
Tel: 212-431-1937
Fax: 212-334-4523
Regular rate: Adult: 15, Child: 10, Senior: 10
Discount rate: Adult: 12.75, Child: 8.50, Senior: 8.50

Immigrant New York
A multi-ethnic walking tour through the Jewish East Side, Chinatown and Little Italy. Stops include: the African Burial Ground, Mulberry Bend and sites associated with Pierre Toussaint, Padre Valera, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Mother Cabrini and Abraham Cahan.

Tour Dates: 11/11, 11/28, 12/9, 12/27
Start Time: 1:00 p.m.  Finish Time: 3:00 p.m.
Departure Location: Southeast corner of Broadway & Chambers Street, at City Hall Park
Reservations:
Tel: 212-439-1090
Fax: 718-499-0023
Email: info@bigonion.com
Website: www.BigOnion.com
Regular rate: Adult: 12
Discount rate: Adult: 10.20

Historic & Contemporary Chinatown
New York hosts the largest "Chinatown" in the Western Hemisphere. This neighborhood is a diverse Asian community settled by people from many provinces of mainland China, as well as Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Learn about Chinese immigration as our tour stops at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the Church of the Transfiguration, the Lee Family Association, Hip Sing Tong and the Lin Ze Xu and Confucius statues.

Tour Dates: 12/25
Start Time: 1:00 p.m. Finish Time: 3:00 p.m.
Departure Location: The northeast corner of Grand & Chrystie Streets, at Roosevelt Park
Reservations:
Tel: 212-439-1090
Fax: 718-499-0023
Email: info@bigonion.com
Website: www.BigOnion.com
Regular rate: Adult: 12
Discount rate: Adult: 10.20

The Original Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour
A tour that mixes history and gastronomy on the multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Learn about the Jewish East Side, Little Italy and Chinatown as we nosh our way through the neighborhood sampling foods traditional to the Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, China, Italy and more.

Tour Dates: 11/14, 11/26, 12/5, 12/19
Start Time: 1:00 Finish Time: 3:00
Departure Location: Southeast corner of Delancey and Essex Streets, in front of the Olympic Diner.
Reservations:
Tel: 212-439-1090
Fax: 718-499-0023
Email: info@bigonion.com
Website: www.BigOnion.com
Regular rate: Adult: 12, Additional Nosh Charge: 4
Discount rate: Adult: 10.20

Lower East Side & Chinatown
NoshWalks celebrate the end of 2004 with a visit to the Lower East Side and a section of Chinatown tourists rarely see: neighborhoods of contrasts-and great food! Stops include candy stores, bakeries, appetizing shops, Chinese markets and, let's not forget…pickles? We'll conclude at Little Italy's best market.

Tour Date: 12/12

Start Time: 11:00 a.m. Finish Time: 2:00 p.m.

Departure Location: First Park, northwest corner of E. Houston Street and First Avenue. (F Train to 2nd Avenue stop and exit at 1st Avenue.)
Reservations:
Tel: 212-222-2243
Website: www.noshwalks.com
Regular rate: Adult: 18
Discount rate: Adult: 15.30

History of Chinatown, Little Italy and The Five Points
Ethnic NYC: Chinatown, Little Italy & the African Burial Ground

Explore Chinatown. See, smell and taste from the exotic vegetable and fruit stands, the Chinese butcher shops, bakeries, fish markets and Chinese herbal houses. Visit Chinatown's landmark Church of the Transfiguration. Learn about the history of Chinatown, including the struggles of its first residents in the 1870's and the lifestyles of today's immigrants.

Stroll the picturesque streets of Little Italy and hear the tales of the contadini (townspeople) as they struggled to meld their village customs to the New World. Sample Italian delicacies like gelato, proscuitto, antipasti, home-made ricotta and mozzarella cheeses, cured olives and vino.

Meander through Foley Square, site of the Triumph of the Spirit sculpture dedicated to early African Americans in New York as well as the African Burial Ground nearby. Stand at the intersection known as The Five Points and hear stories of the fabled Gangs of New York.

Tour Dates: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19
Start Time: 1 p.m.  Finish Time: 2:30 p.m.
Departure Location: Starbuck's at the NW corner of Canal and Centre Streets.
Reservations:
Tel: 718-287-6177
Fax: 718-826-1478
Email: Mark@VintageNYTours.com
Website: www.VintageNYTours.com
Rate: Adult: 15 (12.75 with MetroCard) Child: 10 (8.50 w MetroCard®)

 

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