Jane Jacobs Walk to Find the Hidden Philmont Treasures Hunt / Philmont Community Day

Participants will be given a list of Philmont’s hidden treasure hunt clues – of which the answers will be based purely on observation skills during the walk. There will be up to 20 clues provided.

The Jane Jacobs Walk to Find Philmont’s Hidden Treasures Walk will gently amble through the Village Green, visiting the historic Tea House, walk the Philmont Labyrinth, then head up Maple Avenue which is full of historic 19th century homes, down Prospect St. towards the Harder Mansion, up Main St, turn right on Elm St and continue up to the Summit Mill and Summit Lake. The walk will continue along Lake Drive, down Ark St, turn right onto Main St. and continue up to the Vanderbilt House to end the walk – where refreshments and conversation can be enjoyed sitting on the outside dining deck overlooking the Summit Lake.

For those of us who are more energetic – the walk can continue by circling back down the Main St. to visit the Columbia Land Conservancy High Falls nature trails.

There will be a cap of 25 for the Jane Jacobs Walk to Find the Hidden Philmont Treasures Hunt on Philmont Community Day. No cap for participants for the treasure hunt component. This component does not require the participant to join in the walk and can be self directed.

Date: Saturday June 30, 2012

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Route: The event will start around 11am from the Philmont Beautification, Inc. vendor table located on the Philmont Village Greene as a participant of Philmont Community Day.   It will end at the Vanderbilt House at around 1pm.

Host Organization: Philmont Beautification, Inc.

Registration: RSVP to join the walk – send an email to info@pbinc.org by June 28th, 2012

Accessibility: This event is accessible and welcoming to children & seniors.

Join GVSHP staff member Dana Schulz as she takes you on a journey through the East Village, peeling back the layers of the cultural gastronomy scene that have made this neighborhood so eclectic (and delicious!) over the years. Explore how immigrant groups established restaurants to serve their own community as well as share their heritage with the uninitiated. Learn the little-known facts that make these spots famous and infamous and discover how the emerging food scene of today reflects the changing culture of the neighborhood. Stops will include John’s of 12th Street, Moishe’s Bakery, and the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop. Food samples are not included, but you’ll surely have some good dining ideas!

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

Date: Monday May 23, 2012

Event Start/End: TBD

Hosts: The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP)

Registration: Limit of 30 participants. Register by emailing rsvp@gvshp.org or by calling 212-475-9585 x35

Accessibility: Fully Accessible – children and seniors welcome.

The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – Canal Street to Bowling Green: The Origins of the City

Community activist and Professor of Planning, Michael Levine, will reveal the rapidly changing demographic and environmental trends of Lower Manhattan, while chair of the CB1 Financial District Committee, Ro Shaffe, will share his deep knowledge of the area’s history that has given way to its current conditions. Wellington Chen, Director of the Chinatown Partnership, will speak about the prolific history of Chinatown area and discuss the current social and environmental challenges of this focal community. Annaline Dinkelmann, founder of Wall Street Walks, will share her knowledge about the history of the Financial District, dating all the way back to Manhattan’s Dutch settlers.

BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.

NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th.

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: The intersection of Broadway and Lispenard, one block South of Canal

Event End: Bowling Green

Host: Michael Levine, Ro Schaffe, Wellington Chen, Margaret Sagan

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 23rd Street to Canal Street: The Downtown Area

Max Joel, the Director of Energy Connections at alternative energy organization, Solar One, will address their bold environmental initiatives, followed by naturalist and educator, Gabriel Willow, who will turn our attention to the natural habitat of the neighborhood beginning with Madison Square Park.

BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.

NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th.

Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: 23rd St. and Broadway

Event End: Canal St. and Broadway

Host: Max Joel

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

From New Amsterdam in the 1600s to NYC in 2012, this Jane’s Walk will explore the evolution of capitalism through architecture, from Battery Park to Wall Street.

Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: Bowling Green Subway Station, in front of the Customs House

Event End: The Bull at Broadway between Morris & Beaver Street

Host: Suzanne Timmer and Thomas Wyaux

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Not Accessible – stairs, obstacles, uneven terrain, steep paths.

This walk, beginning at the former home of Jane Jacobs, will discuss what could have happened to the area if she had not defeated Robert Moses in building a Lower Manhattan Expressway, urban density and diversity (which Jacobs was highly in favor of), and will look at the type of “sidewalk ballet” that Jacobs viewed from her window.

Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: 555 Hudson Street, Manhattan

Event End: Below the High Line

Host: Marty Schneit, of Marty’s New York Tours

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

Follow Judith Birdy, the President of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society on a Jane’s Walk that will go north through 1970’s new town to discover the history of the island, and learn how it has changed from an island of institutions to a residential community. Learn about future plans for the island, including a new university science campus. This is a great Walk for those wishing for a moderate length walk (this walk will cover approximately 12 blocks).

Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: Roosevelt Island Visitor Center at the Roosevelt Island side Tram

Event End: TBD

Host: Judith Berdy of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks

Explore this well defined former village of Westchester County that retains many of its small-town elements — main street, churches, schools, post office, library, railroad station, green spaces — after being absorbed into the NYC grid more than 100 years ago. We’ll talk a bit about Woodlawn’s role in a Revolutionary War skirmish, its history as one of the Bronx’s “Irishtowns”, and its connection to NYC’s 19th-century aqueduct projects. But mostly we’ll walk across a portion of Woodlawn’s predominantly residential streets to illustrate how Jane Jacob’s philosophy of “well-used” city streets and sidewalks have preserved Woodlawn as a stable, safe, thriving urban neighborhood. We’ll end at a local venue for refreshments and conversation.  

Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: East Side of Van Cortlandt Park E. and E. 242nd St, on island at flag pole

Event End: TBD

Host:  Allison Jaffe

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks

Historic Flushing (Queens): Colonists, Quakers, and Tree Nurseries

From the brave English settlers who defied tyrannical Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant in the name of religious tolerance, to the oldest house of worship in New York State, to the terrible sacrifice suffered by Declaration of Independence Signer Francis Lewis, Flushing has seen New York history unfold on its land since the 1600s. Find out where Thomas Jefferson shopped for trees for his beloved Monticello, and where Quaker founder George Fox preached to hundreds under the shade of two grand oak trees, all here in the erstwhile village once called the prettiest on Long Island.

*Please note: This tour is about Flushing from the 1600s through the early 20th century, not present-day Asian Flushing*

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Event Start: Meet outside the Burger King, near the corner of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue.

Event End: Outside the John Bowne House, 31-01 Bowne Street.

Host Organization: Linda McDonnell, Friendly Native New Yorker Tours

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks

This walk will explore the neighborhood that sits at the edge of the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights, and, at appropriate sites, discussions will examine different elements of Jane Jacobs’ ideas which have transformed our thinking about cities. Walkers will explore these ideas in the context of this neighborhood’s history and how it developed.

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start/End: 991 Amsterdam Ave. (between 108th and 109th St.)

Host: Jim Mackin, of the Columbus-Amsterdam Business Improvement District (BID)

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks.

Lower Main Street in Tottenville became an important business center in the mid-19th c. with the revitalization of the oyster industry enhanced by the extension of the SI Railroad to Tottenville in 1860. Capt. John Totten, who lived nearby & whose house still stands, built a dock and general store along the waterfront here, and the maritime industries that supported that industry soon flourished. A century later, Main St. remained at the heart of the community’s business district, providing a wide range of services from banking to shoe repair.

Today, the mom-and-pop stores have all but disappeared, and Main St. struggles in tough economic times. What does the future hold for small town centers like Main Street, Tottenville?

Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start/End: Tottenville train station (last stop on the Staten Island Railway)

Hosts: Tottenville Historical Society

Registration: Please RSVP: 646-291-7005 or at http://bit.ly/IK7opO

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

Sense the energy and ambition that has spurred an incredibly dynamic and fascinating area, tucked away between Tramway Plaza and Sutton Square and dominated by the iconic Queensboro Bridge. The zone grew as a rough and ragged district of power plants, breweries and tenements, until a bevy of society ladies transformed a tenement block into an exclusive enclave that set off a local apartment house boom. Near and distant views reveal the places where Robert Moses bullied locals into accepting the East River Drive, where zoning encouraged residential towers, where Philip Johnson designed a futurist New Town, where citizens locked horns with city planners, and where Louis Kahn’s Memorial to FDR finally nears completion.

Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: Tramway Plaza, 59th St. and 2nd Ave, Manhattan

Event End: Sutton Place Park, 57th St. and Sutton Place, Manahttan

Host: Carole Rifkind, author, filmmaker and MAS Board Member

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

Flushing, Queens: The Rocket Thrower – Robert Moses, the 1964/65 World’s Fair, and Art in the Space Age

The Space Age was a time of bewildering change, yet also of great optimism about the future. Conceived at a time of general consensus in 1958 and designed to celebrate and promote the U.S. entry into the Space Age, the 1964/65 Fair opened instead amidst the turbulent conflicts of the Mid-Sixties. Robert Moses’s presidency of the World’s Fair Corporation became another flash-point for the conflicts emerging in the spheres of civil rights, planning, architecture, and art in New York. Donald De Lue’s sculpture The Rocket Thrower illustrates the conflicts between Moses’s conservative aesthetic, the press, and the changing culture of the 1960’s. Explore the “space age” art and architecture that survives in Flushing Meadows today which recalls those times and their contradictory currents.

This tour is part of a weeklong festival celebrating the Rocket Thrower. The statue is included in the MAS’s Adopt-A-Monument program which through private funding conserves and maintains works of public art. The Rocket Thrower is the last of 36 outdoor monuments in this program waiting to be restored.

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm

Event Start/End: The East side of the Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, opposite the Queens Museum of Art

Hosts: John Kriskiewicz, with John Krawchuk

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 112th Street to 59th Street: Central Park to Columbus Circle

As we walk down from 112th St., Angelica Pasqualini of Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems research, will speak about the principle climate research underway in NYC and the myriad green innovations in the built environment that line Broadway.

BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC
into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.

NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th. 

Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: The intersection of Broadway and 112th St., in front of Tom’s Restaurant

Event End: 59th St. and Broadway; Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park

Host: Angelica Pasqualini

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

From the 1870s to about 1910, the Tenderloin was Manhattan’s most famous red-light district, a cradle of elegant vice that developed north of 23rd Street west of Fifth Avenue, in the shadow of luxurious hotels such as Gilsey House. High-stakes gambling parlors, brothels, saloons, dance halls – the Tenderloin reveled in its own illegality, until pressure from civic authorities and corporate development led to its demise. Since the 1990s, zoning changes have altered the landscape of the old Tenderloin’s main stem – Sixth Avenue – and have led to the destruction of many buildings. But a few reminders survive. On this tour, we will visit sites associated with still-visible Tenderloin businesses, including the block of 28th St. once known as Tin Pan Alley, birthplace of the pop music industry.

Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: Sidewalk in front of Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway at 29th Street

Event End: TBD

Host: David Freeland (www.gothamlostandfound.com)

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks.

Forget 16 Candles — Henry Street is lighting 145! The Henry Street Settlement will be celebrating the 145th birthday of our founder, Lillian Wald with an old-fashioned block party, free and open to all. In addition to old-fashioned street games for children, arts & crafts, music, refreshments and a birthday cake baking contest, Henry Street will be hosting walks through its 1832 historic headquarters (at 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 PM)

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Time: 12:00pm-3:00pm

Event Start/End: 265 Henry Street (at Montgomery Street)

Host: Henry Street Settlement

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

Take the Downtown Walk that new interns from all around the country take at the beginning of their “Urban Fellowship” with the City of New York. Imagine you’re new to this crazy, diverse, place and just learning about the City where you will be working in City Government for the next nine months.

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Time: 12:00pm-1:45pm

Event Start/End: Under the Arch of the Manhattan Municipal Building, One Centre Street, Manhattan.

Host: Mitch Paluszek

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks

The Williamsburg Art Scene: It started as a village within the town of Bushwick, now a neighboring community. Williamsburg was industrial with a shipyard and many factories–all are now gone except for the old Domino Sugar factory. Williamsburg has been home to many ethnic enclaves including Hasidic Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. Now, it’s also an influential hub for indie rock, hipster culture and fine, contemporary art. All of this is associated with its main thoroughfare, Bedford Avenue. Join Savona Bailey-McClain, curator and arts producer. Stroll through one of the hippest communities in Brooklyn. Mixed between great cafes, restaurants and shops are wonderful galleries showing forward thinking artwork.

Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Route: Bedford Avenue and N. 7th Street, “L” train from Manhattan to Bedford Avenue (1st stop in Brooklyn).

Host Organization:   Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. and NYC Arts! (Walking tour initiative of the West Harlem Art Fund)

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Not Accessible – stairs, obstacles, uneven terrain, steep paths

While most only see Riverdale as a residential neighborhood of the Bronx, William Kent will prove the opposite by leading Jane’s Walkers to the secret destinations in the area, including old Dutch Churches and an “oasis in the city”.

NOTE: This Jane’s Walk will require the use of public transportation, so walkers should bring a Metrocard with a few rides on it.  

Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start/End:  231st St. & Broadway (near 1 train stop)

Host:  William Kent

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Not Accessible – stairs, obstacles, uneven terrain, steep paths

The World’s Most Talked-About Bike Lane & The (Former) Home of the Death-o-Meter

How did an eight-foot wide strip of green paint, less than a mile long (which by most accounts transformed Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West from a three-lane, speeding-plagued arterial into a traffic-calmed neighborhood street appreciably safer for biking, walking and driving) become the front line in the global battle over bike lanes? How is Grand Army Plaza, one-time home of the Death-o-Meter and written off for decades as an inhospitable and impenetrable “traffic peril,” being transformed into Brooklyn’s pedestrian- and bike-friendly town square? Pump up your tires, strap on your helmet and join us for a family-friendly exploration of two of Brooklyn’s most startling public-space transformations.

Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start/End:  Prospect Park West & Union Street, adjacent to Prospect Park

Host Organization: Eric McClure (Park Slope Neighbors) & Doug Gordon (BrooklynSpoke)

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible – This is a bike ride that will be suitable for all ages.

Get to know the friendly, historic neighborhood of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, situated on the “Lower East Side” of Prospect Park. We’ll peruse some beautiful brownstones, intersections of interest, community art projects and great green spaces that have made little PLG a gem of a district for generations of residents and passers-by. See where a train went off the tracks in 1918, streets that are being re-imagined today and stately 19th century homes that still stand.

Every day, all over the city, Transportation Alternatives is working to revitalize New York City’s neighborhoods and restore a vibrant culture of street life. This walk features one of the many communities where T.A. advocacy brings safe and healthy streets for all.

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: SW corner of Flatbush and Ocean avenues; under stand of metal trees

Event End: Petite Blue Roost, 43 Lincoln Road, between Flatbush and Ocean avenues

Hosts: Transportation Alternatives’ Brooklyn Volunteer Committee

Registration: RSVP at http://transalt.org/events/calendar/5852

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: Lincoln Center (Columbus Ave. between 63rd & 64th St.)

Event End: Zabar’s (83rd and Broadway)

Host: Carole Stallworth, of “Big Apple Greeter”

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible 

Join Downtown Brooklyn resident, Joe Svehlak, native Brooklynite and preservationist to walk newly designed people friendly streets and plazas in his rapidly changing neighborhood. New residential towers and hotels are springing up and adding to the skyline in and around Brooklyn’s historic civic center and the grand old department stores of the busy redesigned Fulton Street Mall. View new shops and restaurants and the DeKalb Market, a great urban space with shops, entertainment, and even an urban farm. Surprises on our walk will include historic religious edifices, storefront art instillations, and landmarked former telephone company headquarters.

Time: 10:00am-12:15pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: Brooklyn Boro Hall steps, near Court & Remsen St.

Event End: DeKalb Market, Flatbush Ave & Willoughby St.

Host: Joe Svehlak, licensed NYC tour guide

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks 

Transit Walk: The Transformation of Downtown Brooklyn

Public transit has defined and transformed New York City over and over again. Delve into one rich example by taking a close look at Downtown Brooklyn through the lens of mass transit. Led by educators from the New York Transit Museum, we’ll visit Court Street, Columbus Park, the commercial center at Fulton Mall, and the Transit Museum itself. Explore, observe, and discuss the impact of transit progress on this community. The tour concludes with complimentary admission to the New York Transit Museum, light refreshments, and an informal discussion. Located in an authentic 1930s subway station, the New York Transit Museum presents hands-on exhibits that celebrate the many ways that public transportation impacts New York City and its environs.

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Event Start: Pierrepont Playground at Columbia Heights and Pierrepont Streets (on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade)

Event End: New York Transit Museum

Host Organization: New York Transit Museum

Registration: There is a limit of 25 participants. Click here to register.

Accessibility: This event is accessible and welcoming to wheelchairs, bicycles, children, & seniors.

The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 190th Street to 112th Street: Newcomers and Old Timers: Fort George, Washington Heights and Harlem

Acclaimed artist, Matthew Jensen, will heighten awareness of this area’s topography and geology, addressing features of the urban landscape often unnoticed. CB9 community activist Linda Walton will help to identify landmarks of Harlem’s cultural history over time and provide projections for the neighborhood’s future. As we walk past the prolific Columbia University, environmental scientists Sabine Marx will speak about the work of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions.

BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.

NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th. 

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: Broadway, between 190th and 189th St., next to Gorman Park

Event End: The intersection of Broadway and 112th St., in front of Tom’s Restaurant

Hosts: Matthew Jensen, Linda Walton, Sabine Marx

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

The BROADWAY: 1000 Steps Baton – 240th Street to 190th Street: Bronx Gateway Through Inwood to Manhattan

Artist and Founder of City as Living Laboratory, Mary Miss, will inaugurate the event by addressing the significance of Broadway, as Manhattan’s historic and ever-evolving corridor. Bronx-born artist, Daniel Hauben, will discuss his impressions of the borough, past and present, which serve as the subject of his acclaimed ‘landscape’ paintings, while Inwood resident and enthusiast, Don Rice, will enrich this stretch of the walk with interesting historical anecdotes of Inwood’s enchanting and obscure past.

BROADWAY: 1000 Steps is a project by Mary Miss to turn the oldest avenue of NYC into a “green corridor” where insights into our surroundings – from streets and buildings, to transportation and waste, to energy and the climate – can be made apparent and accessible at ground level. This project, to be inaugurated next spring 2013, will be implemented at up to twenty “hubs” dispersed along its length, from the Bronx to the Battery. Each hub will serve as a site for installations that reveal the urban infrastructure, decode the environment and suggest what the future city might be. This project is intended as a catalyst for interventions and projects by other artists, environmental designers, and citizens along Broadway, at additional sites in NYC and cities across the country.

NOTE: This walk is part of a continuous series of walks taking place on Sunday, May 5th. 

Time: 8:00am-10:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start: The intersection of Broadway and Van Cortlandt Park South

Event End: Broadway, between 190th and 189th St., next to Gorman Park

Hosts: Mary Miss, Gabriel Willow, Daniel Hauben, Don Rice

Registration: No need to RSVP, just show up at the posted meeting place.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible

The beautiful and historic neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights offers excellent examples of Jane Jacobs’s principles of urban diversity in action. Beginning at the steps of Brooklyn¹s Borough Hall, we will stroll through residential and commercial streets while observing and talking about how the physical environment influences social activity and even economic and cultural development, both for good and for ill. We will be stopping at several points of interest, including the famous Promenade, and end near the #2/3 subway and a nice coffeehouse.

Please wear comfortable footwear and weather-appropriate clothing, and be sure to have lots of questions. See you there!

*This walk will be happening on both May 5th, and May 6th

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm

Event Start: Meet on the footsteps of Borough Hall, Brooklyn, as seen here. It’s the second stop in Brooklyn on the 2/3 subway line or the first stop on the 4/5 line and the R line.

Event End: We will end at the Clark Street station of the 2/3 subway line.

Host Organization:   Sandy Ikeda, Associate Professor of Economics at Purchase College, SUNY, where he teaches a course called “Cities, Culture, & Economy” that is based on the work of Jane Jacobs and integrates economics, social theory, and urban design. He is a resident of Brooklyn Heights and hosted a successful Jane Jacobs Walk last year.

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks 

Holly Whyte Way: A Way for Walkers on 6-1/2 Avenue

Between 51st and 57th Streets lies a public secret: a network of privately owned public spaces (POPS) built in exchange for additional building height above. Join Brian Nesin, David Grider and Jordan Zimolka of F-POPS for a tour of the art and design within this exciting shortcut through Midtown, christened “Holly Whyte Way”. Get the scoop on proposed plans to install mid-block crosswalks, connecting these pubilc plazas along “6-1/2 Avenue”.

Every day, all over the city, Transportation Alternatives is working to revitalize New York City’s neighborhoods and restore a vibrant culture of street life. This walk features one of the many communities where T.A. advocacy brings safe and healthy streets for all.

Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start: Meeting Place: AXA Plaza, 151 West 51st Street

Event End: Alliance Berstein Plaza, 55th Street and 6th Avenue

Hosts: Transportation Alternatives, Friends of Privately Owned Public Spaces (F-POPS)

Registration: RSVP at http://transalt.org/events/calendar/5851

Accessibility:  Fully Accessible

Starting from Astor Place at the Alamo sculpture (the Black Cube) we will view Astor Place Tower (2005), and end at the Puck Building (1886). This Jane’s Walk will include 4th Street’s Merchant’s House Museum (1833), Great Jones Street’s Engine Co No. 33 (1899), Bond Street’s Ian Schrager’s 40 Bond Street Condo (2008), and Bleecker Street’s Bayard-Condict Building (1899), among many other famous buildings. On Lafayette St we will see the Public Theater (1853) and on the Bowery, Cooper Union’s new Academic Building (2009) and Cooper Square Hotel (2008).

The walk will focus on the juxtaposition of new and old architecture with its many transitions

*This walk will be happening on both May 5th, and May 6th 

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Event Start: Astor Place Cube – Eighth St. and Lafayette St. No. 6 Subway stop.

Event End: The Puck Building – Lafayette St. and E. Houston. Broadway/Lafayette Subway = B, D, F subway

Host: Bill Rosser

Registration: No need to sign up, just show up at the posted meeting location.

Accessibility: Partially Accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks. 

Completed all the way from Gansevoort Street to 30th Street in 2009, the High Line is Manhattan’s new park atop an elevated rail structure is one of the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. Led by Friends of the High Line’s Emily Pinkowitz, this walk will be a great way to enjoy the park in the evening hours while hearing more on the gritty history of the West Side and the park’s wondrous variety of plantings.

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm

Event Start: Gansevoort Plaza, at Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District

Event End: TBD

Host: Emily Pinkowitz, School & Youth Program Manager of Friends of the High Line

Registration: Park regulations permit a maximum of 20 people for group gatherings. Please email rbabb@mas.org to RSVP.

Accessibility: Fully Accessible