Take a Walk & See a Play!

Join us to explore Harlem. We will start at the National Black Theatre, inviting participants to share their experiences of life in Harlem, and will finish back at the National Black Theatre. All participants in the walk will receive DISCOUNT TICKETS to the final performance of the play "Gutting" at the National Black Theatre at 7pm.

This walk is part of a new play called “Gutting,” written by Jeremy Kamps, being produced in Harlem by Company Cypher at the National Black Theatre, September 24 - October 3. “Gutting” is set three years after Hurricane Katrina and follows 14-year-old runaway Kali and the people around her who struggle to keep their homes in the Lower 9th Ward from being gutted. As part of the production and the ten-year-anniversary of the Hurricane, we are hosting various Jane Jacobs Walks in Harlem, so audiences can see the real impact of urban development and displacement, and have discussions about gentrification, displacement, and race issues that affect us here in Harlem. For more information, go to www.gutting2015.org.

Date:  Saturday, October 3, 2015

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Event Start/End: 
BEGIN & END: National Black Theatre, 2031 5th Ave, NYC 10035 (btwn 125th & 126th streets)

Host: Members of "Gutting," a new play at the National Black Theatre
guttingjanejacobswalks@gmail.com

Theme: Walking

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to children and strollers.

Join us to explore Harlem. We will start at the National Black Theatre, inviting participants to share their experiences with life in Harlem, and will finish at the beginning of the African American Day Parade at 111th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
 
This walk is part of a new play called “Gutting,” written by Jeremy Kamps, being produced in Harlem by Company Cypher at the National Black Theatre, September 24 - October 3. “Gutting” is set three years after Hurricane Katrina and follows 14-year-old runaway Kali and the people around her who struggle to keep their homes in the Lower 9th Ward from being gutted. As part of the production and the ten-year-anniversary of the Hurricane, we are hosting various Jane Jacobs Walks in Harlem, so audiences can see the real impact of urban development and displacement, and have discussions about gentrification, displacement, and race issues that affect us here in Harlem. For more information, go to www.gutting2015.org or check it out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guttingbyjeremykamps

Date:  Sunday, September 20, 2015

Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Event Start/End: 
BEGIN: National Black Theatre, 2031 5th Ave, NYC 10035 (btwn 125th & 126th streets)
END: African American Day Parade, 111th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd

Host: Members of "Gutting," a new play at the National Black Theatre
guttingjanejacobswalks@gmail.com

Theme: Walking

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to children and strollers.

Join us to explore Harlem. We will start at the National Black Theatre, walk through Marcus Garvey Park to see installation art, walk west on 121st street to the Harriet Tubman Statue on St Nicholas Ave, head back to the Adam Clayton Powell statue on 7th Ave and 125th street, and finish at Studio Museum Harlem, which has free admission on Sundays. 
 
This walk is part of a new play called “Gutting,” written by Jeremy Kamps, being produced in Harlem by Company Cypher at the National Black Theatre, September 24 - October 3. “Gutting” is set three years after Hurricane Katrina and follows 14-year-old runaway Kali and the people around her who struggle to keep their homes in the Lower 9th Ward from being gutted. As part of the production and the ten-year-anniversary of the Hurricane, we are hosting various Jane Jacobs Walks in Harlem, so audiences can see the real impact of urban development and displacement, and have discussions about gentrification, displacement, and race issues that affect us here in Harlem. For more information, go to www.gutting2015.org or check it out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guttingbyjeremykamps

Date:  Sunday, August 9, 2015

Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Event Start/End: 
BEGIN: National Black Theatre, 2031 5th Ave, NYC 10035 (btwn 125th & 126th streets)
END: Studio Museum Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, NYC 10027

Host: Members of "Gutting," a new play at the National Black Theatre
guttingjanejacobswalks@gmail.com

Theme: Walking

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to children and strollers.

The guided tour will focus on the history and architecture of the Lower East Side with particular attention to the housing, institutions and businesses that were the center of immigrant life. The tour will highlight the impact of housing reforms reflected in the changes to the plans and features of tenements over time. “We will see pre-Old Law, Old Law and New Law tenements and look up at the elaborate terra cotta ornamentation that distinguishes many buildings,” said Mitchell Grubler, the tour’s leader.
 
Although endangered, a number of blocks south of Delancey Street still retain the sense of place that would be familiar to our immigrant ancestors. “The Lower East Side is where millions of immigrants have taken their first steps in the New World on the road to the American Dream,” wrote Joyce Mendelsohn, tour co-leader and author of the definitive guidebook to the area, 'The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited.' The structures that housed some of the institutions and businesses which served the multitudes of immigrants will also be highlighted. The tour will pass a Neo-Renaissance style school designed by architect, C.B.J. Snyder in 1897; the former Good Samaritan/Eastern District Dispensary built in 1890; the 12-story former Jarmulowsky Bank of 1911-12; as well as a number of other significant buildings.

Find out more at Friends of the Lower East Side

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2015, Rain Date: Saturday, May 9, 2015

Time: 12 noon - 2:00 pm

Event Start/End:
Start: The southeast corner of Delancey and Orchard Streets, New York, NY
End: TBA

Host: Friends of the Lower East Side, friendsoftheles@gmail.com

Registration: No, all are welcome

Accessibility:  Adults capable of walking 1 1/2 miles