The Commons - The Heart of New York City
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The Commons has effectively been America’s town square since the Dutch landed. Virtually every major event of local, national and global significance has played out in some way on this stage. This tour captures the multiple and overlapping stories that are woven throughout our city’s life. It takes a look at the issues that New Yorkers were preoccupied with and how they solved them: their politics, religion, social protest, health and safety, commerce, disasters and defense, scandals and crime, education, publications, art and culture, parades and celebrations, architecture and engineering. The tour starts and ends at City Hall in front of the footprint of the notorious Brideswell Prison which had neither heat nor windows. The Lenape Wickquasgeck trail became Brede weg to the Dutch and was rechristened Broadway by the British. By 1870 the area was so congested that Alfred Beach was able to sell 500,000 10cent fares on his short-lived 312 foot long underground train. We’ll look at the Liberty Pole where George Washington had the Declaration of Independence read to the troops on July 9th 1976 before they marched down Broadway to Bowling Green to topple the statue of King George. Behind City Hall is Tweed Courthouse, costing twice as much as Alaska. We’ll meet Audrey Munson the first supermodel who posed for Civic Fame which sits atop the Municipal Building and journalist Nellie Bly who went round the world in less than 80 days and imagine what the former Post Office and Courthouse, the architectural eyesore known Mullets Monstrosity looked like before it was demolished in 1939.
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Abraham De Peyster
Canyon of Heroes - History on Display in Lower Manhattan
St. Paul's Church - Symbol of Survival
Introduction to Revolutionary NYC Midnight Tour
Nathan Hale
Cannon from Ticonderoga; Surrogate Court Statues
Tweed Courthouse
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Introduction
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Stone Facade Pt 2
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Street Stairs
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Central Rotunda
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Court Room
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Roof
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Design & Construction
Restoration of Tweed Courthouse: Changes through the 20th Century
Sculpture of Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale
Horace Greeley
Benjamin Franklin
Jewish Arrival - Mordecai Noah of the Tammany Society
Jewish Arrival - The Tammany Society and 19th Century Jewish History
Spruce Street School
Municipal Building
British Attack New York July/August 1776
Civic Fame
Surrogate's Courthouse
Foley Square and the African Burial Ground
History of Thomas Paine
Triumph of the Human Spirit
Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse
NYS Supreme Court
New York County Courthouse Pedimental Sculpture
Court of International Trade and Jacob K. Javits Federal Building
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