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.

This Jane Jacobs Walk event will showcase the old core of Ogden and draw attention to the importance of building more walkable communities while also protecting historic buildings.

Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start/End: The event will begin and end at the Ogden Transit Hub.

Host Organization: Sean Hansen, Jane Jacobs Walk

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

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

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

Let’s walk about it, Detroit!  This is Detroit’s first Jane Jacobs walk. The route will include the two historic neighborhoods of Green Acres and Sherwood Forest.  The walk start at a food market to show that there are places in Detroit to buy food, and end at a local bistro. Along the way participants will visit a local park, historic homes, where 8 mile meets the suburbs, a cemetery, a local church, and businesses along the Avenue of Fashion.  We’ll hear from lifelong Detroiters, including members from the city’s first radio patrol, and about life in this corner of Detroit.  Come learn about the best kept secrets in Detroit!

Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm

Date: Sunday, May 6th

Event Start: Mike’s Market (19195 Livernois Ave)

Event End: 1917 American Bistro (19416 Livernois Ave)

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

Accessibility: This event is accessible and welcoming to bicycles and children.

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.

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

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

Downtown Norwich… Then and Now will involve a discussion of the forces of development that lead to the initial settlement, transformations over time, including urban renewal, the challenges of historic preservation and being “future ready”. The walk will be led by Dale Plummer (City Historian) and Jason Vincent (a planning consultant working with the city). Participants will be encouraged to share stories and observations about Norwich.

Time: 10:00am-11:00am

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012

Event Start/End: The event will begin and end at Howard Brown Park on chelsea harbor Drive in Downtown Norwich (Chelsea).

Hosts: Dale Plummer (city historian), Jason Vincent (planning consultant, Planimetrics, Inc.)

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

Accessibility: The walk involves some steep inclines and it can be challenging.

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

Jane Jacobs Rockapulco Bike Tour

 This tour will be for historians and others interested in exploring the local neighborhoods of the Rockaways. We have a select number of bikes that can be loaned for this tour and bikes are available on a first come first serve basis.

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm

Event Start: Starting from Firehouse 59 (Rockaway Beach Blvd at Beach 59th St.)

Event End: Ending point TBA

Host Organization: Jeanne DuPonte, of the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance

Registration:  Advanced registration is required, email: info@rwalliance.org

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

Architectural Walking Tour: Around Washington Square

Walk around one of William Penn’s original planned public parks. Learn how this square served as a burial ground for over 1,200 Revolutionary War soldiers, then as a potter’s field before receiving its present name in 1825. See The Athenaeum, the first Italian Renaissance building in the US, and learn how the Square became home to the publishing industry in the early 20th century. Today, many of the former office buildings are being transformed into residences as Washington Square serves as an important gateway to the nearby residential Society Hill neighborhood.

Time: 2:00pm

Date: Saturday, May 5th

Event Start: Meet at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, center of Washington Square, 7th & Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19106

Host Organization: Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

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

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

Revisit Rockaway Beach: Village Inside a Bustling Resort 

Join Rockaway native and author of Images of America: Rockaway Beach, Vivian Carter, in walking Rockaway Beach. Event participants will be exploring the area between Beach 84 Street and Beach 102 Street, while learning about the historical Village of Rockaway Beach, established in 1897. This event will be offered on both Saturday, May 5th, and Sunday, May 6th.

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

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Date: Sunday May 6, 2012
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Event Start: Doughboy Memorial, Beach 94

Event End: Rockaway Beach Boulevard

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

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

Manhattan’s Civic Center: From the Dregs of Collect Pond to the Center of Urban Governing

This Jane’s Walk, covering Manhattan’s Civic Center, will be led by city insider, Linda Fisher, who has worked in Manhattan’s Civic Center for 40 years, and lived through, and researched its history. Encompassing the area from the southern end of City Hall park–the site of the city’s first penal institutions–to just below Canal Street (bordered by Broadway and Centre Street), the Walk will tell the story of the Civic Center’s development, and will include a lesson on the functions of the various courts, jails and government buildings.

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

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

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

Event Start/End: Chambers and Centre Street and Northern end of City Hall Park

Host: Linda Fisher

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

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

This event will move through downtown Provo looking at fixtures of the built environment — benches, streets, sidewalks, parks — that seem like really great things, but that are just not getting much use. We’ll have a discussion about why people might not be using these well-intentioned fixtures, and how we could improve the built environment so these good ideas benefit more people.

Time: 12:00pm

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start: On the steps of the historic courthouse, located at 51 S. University Ave

Host: Jim Dalrymple, author of (prov(vo)cation), a blog about Provo, UT

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

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

The History of the Lower East Side: Immigration, Religion and Culture

Starting on East Broadway, and continuing on to the Henry Street Settlement, the “real” Chinatown under the Manhattan Bridge, and ending at Folly Square, this Jane’s Walk revolves around the cultural history of Lower Manhattan. Exploring 18th and 19th century history, Jane’s Walkers will learn of early Christian churches, Jewish immigration of the 19th-20th centuries, modern Buddhist temples, and sites of Puerto Rican influx in the 1960s and 70s.  

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

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

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

Event Start: F Train Stop on East Broadway

Event End: Folly Square

Host: Mark Herdter

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

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

Beginning on the steps of the beautiful Customs House (now the Museum of the American Indian) and continuing through Battery Park, this tour will cover an area that played a major role in New York City history, from Hudson’s first spotting of Manhattan in the 17th century, to the city’s triumphant rebirth following 9/11. Built on landfill from the World Trade Center in the early 1980s, Battery Park City gives the city much needed housing, while being graced with 35 acres of public parks, gardens, plazas and public areas filled with art and planned by artists, landscape gardeners and architects.

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start: Steps of American Indian Museum (at Bowling Green Station)

Event End: Chambers St. at North end of Battery Park City

Host: Betty Heller, of “Big Apple Greeter”

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

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

In 1934, 18 year old Jane Jacobs arrived in NYC from Scranton to pursue a writing career. While exploring her new environs, she found herself at Christopher Street Station, and immediately began her love affair with Greenwich Village. Our tour will include the history of the area, woven with stories and relevant sights of Jane’s epic battles with city bureaucracy and the powerful Robert Moses to preserve her beloved Village. Walkers will visit Hudson Street, where she lived for 20 years, observing its daily ‘intricate sidewalk ballet’ that was the inspiration for her acclaimed first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, as well as see several other historic sites that would not exist today if it were not for her successful grassroots activism.

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start/End: 7th Ave. South & Christopher St., in front of Village Cigars

Host: Joan Schecter

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

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

On our walk through Inwood, we will pause to collect food and view places of historical and local significance.

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start: Begin at Dyckman Stop on 1 Train

Event End: Spuyten Duyvil Creek in Inwood Hill Park

Host Organization: Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

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

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

William Burg, author of multiple books on Sacramento history, will guide this tour of Midtown’s mixed-use business corridor and adjacent residential neighborhood. Topics discussed will include the historic function of mixed-use neighborhoods and their modern interpretations, how architects responded to Sacramento’s environment and climate, and Midtown’s legacy as a regional epicenter of creativity and art.

Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start/End: Old Soul at The Weatherstone, 812 21st Street

Host Organization:  Sacramento Old City Association

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

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

From the Gold Rush forward, Sacramento had a tremendous need for infrastructure. Not just roads and levees, but law enforcement, fire protection, and courts. Sacramento’s Historic City Cemetery is home to many pioneer lawmen, lawyers, judges and firemen, whose stories will be shared on this tour, along with stories of what happens when these systems do not function, as demonstrated by the February 1851 Vigilance Committee that hung murderer Frederick Rowe.

Time: 10:0am-12:00pm

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start/End: Sacramento Old City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway (main entrance)

Host Organization: Old City Cemetery Committee

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

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

Once part of South Brooklyn, Red Hook now combines elements of its long history with more recent trends in neighborhood change. Industry, working class housing, and maritime activity dating from the 19th century and New Deal projects like Red Hook Houses and the Goldman pool contrast with new arrivals such as boutiques and restaurants, repurposed warehouses hosting art galleries and New York institutions like Fairway, and the big box Ikea. Development tradeoffs have brought new waterside parks while vacant plots await further development. We will end at Red Hook Park where lunch can be purchased from the Red Hook Food Vendors, Ecuadoran, Columbian, and Mexican immigrants whose success adds another chapter to Red Hook’s history.

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Time: 10:00am-12:30pm

Event Start: Corners of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, on the Atlantic Ave. side of Trader Joe’s

Event End: Red Hook Park

Host: Deborah Gardner, of the Roosevelt House at Hunter College

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

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

West End Walk: Oxford/Whitney Historic District

The West End Jane Jacobs Walks, sponsored by the West End Civic Association (WECA), are three concurrent walks that will explore the rich architectural, historical, social, educational, and environmental treasures found in the West End neighborhood. Participants will explore and look at the nooks and crannies of different areas of the West End, talk and tell stories about life in the West End in the past and today, and perhaps tomorrow.

The Oxford/Whitney Historic District walk will be led by Mary LaPorte, who has lived in the West End for many years. It will begin at the United Methodist Church of Hartford (571 Farmington Avenue, at the corner of South Whitney Street), where participants will be welcomed by Rev. Cynthia Major, pastor, who will talk about the vital and multidimensional role the Church plays in the community. The walk will then proceed along Whitney Street, Elizabeth Street, Oxford Street, and Fern Street.  It will also includes stops at Noah Webster School and Elizabeth Park, as well as “I Spy” and musicians along the way.

All walkers are invited to come to the Connecticut Historical Society at the end of their walks to see the collection of architectural blue prints of West End homes. CHS will offer admission free of charge on the day of the walk.

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Date: Saturday, May 5th

Route: Begin at the United Methodist Church of Hartford, 571 Farmington Avenue (at the corner of South Whitney Street). Proceed along Farmington Avenue, Beacon Street, Warrenton Avenue and Tremont Street.

Host Organization: West End Civic Association

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

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

Charlie Niessner will lead Jane’s Walkers through Brooklyn Heights, or “Historical Brownstone Brooklyn”, which became the first NYC landmark district in 1965. Predating Greenwich Village as a landmarked district, the “Heights” was considered the first American suburb when Robert Fulton launched his Ferry service to/from Manhattan in 1814, and now has over 600 antebellum homes and more than a dozen churches, in addition to beautiful views of Manhattan from the Brooklyn Promenade. This Walk will start and end at Borough Hall, where on Saturdays, walkers can enjoy a wonderful Greenmarket.

Time: 9:30am-11:00am

Date: Saturday May 5, 2012

Event Start/End:  Brooklyn Borough Hall

Host Organization: Charlie Niessner, seasoned Big Apple Greeter

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

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