Did you know that the U.S. federal government was founded in downtown Manhattan? Join us on a historic walking tour of the Financial District and lower Manhattan, and visit the:

• Site of America's founding
• Former House of Morgan (home of world capitalism in the 1920s)
• New York Stock Exchange
• Trinity Church (and the grave of Alexander Hamilton)
• Route of New York's famed tickertape parades
• Old Customs House (currently containing the National Museum of the American Indian)
• Fraunces Tavern, where a Black tavern owner was a key spy for Washington's army
• Gorgeous Woolworth Skyscraper
• Site of the notorious Five Points neighborhood
• Chinatown, and the oldest, most impossible tenement in New York

There's lot's to see, so bring your walking shoes!

Our tour guide Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist, who has lived in New York for 45 years. A graduate of Columbia, he is the author of five novels, the author or co-author of six works of nonfiction and two graphic novels, and has written for many major periodicals and for television.

In the event of rain, this program will take place one day later on March 27th.

Please note that all program fees are nonrefundable.