Jane's Walk Weekend is Back--and Bigger than Ever

NEW YORK, April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 6-8, thousands of New Yorkers will walk the city's streets for the 100^th birthday of urban activist Jane Jacobs.  Jane's Walk NYC, hosted by The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS), is an annual weekend-long celebration featuring 250+ free "walking conversations" throughout the five boroughs, led by urban enthusiasts and local experts who care deeply about their neighborhoods.

All of the MAS-sponsored walks combine the simple act of exploring neighborhoods with personal observations, local history, and civic engagement. A typical walk is 90 minutes and is free and open to the public.

The full list of tours is available online at http://janeswalk.org/united-states/new-york-city-ny/, including:

• Raise a pint to 200 years of brewing history in Bushwick
• As Lin-Manuel croons, "It's quiet uptown!" Visit Alexander Hamilton's home and imagine West 141^st Street when it was still a meadow
• From Tammany Hall to Zuccotti Park, join A People's History of Wall Street
• Arepas, bahn mi, and bubble tea by the light of the moon: Tour New York's foodiest borough at the Queens Night Market
• Spend the Day with the Roosevelts: Roosevelt House and Four Freedoms Park
• The Hills are Alive! Get a sneak peek at the newest section of Governor's Island and catch a glimpse of the New York harbor from 70 feet in the air [*limited capacity]
• Six new acres are coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2017—come on an exclusive hard hat tour of the Pier 5 uplands
• Hike through century-old trees in Manhattan's only surviving primordial forest
• Grab a map from 1667 and walk the surviving streets of Dutch Nieuw Amsterdam
• Get an insider's glimpse at the renovations of St. Patrick's Cathedral, a New York City landmark
• Join "Jane Jacobs" (WNYC's Jim O'Grady) and her nemesis "Robert Moses" (WNYC's Brooke Gladstone) for a walking debate through Park Slope
• Cigars, cannoli, cappuccino, and more—tour Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, the real Little Italy
• Meet a few of your NYC neighbors—the northern pipefish, blackfish, and oyster toad fish—on an ecology tour of the Hudson River
• Walk in the footsteps of Nos Quedamos ("We Stay"), the South Bronx activists who beat back a 1990s urban renewal campaign to raze the neighborhood

Members of the press, contact Meaghan Baron at [email protected]

SOURCE Municipal Art Society of New York

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