LIBRARY NOTES
The New York Society Library turns 256 in 2010. It began in one room in City Hall at the lower tip of Manhattan; as the city grew and expanded, so did the Library, moving to new locations on Nassau Street and Broadway during its first century. In this walking tour prepared specially for the Library, New York historian Maria Dering will introduce these previous sites and their surroundings,showing the eighteenth and nineteenth century roots beneath the modern city. A gracious meal at a restaurant in lower Manhattan will follow each tour.
Meet in front of Trinity Church at the intersection of Broadway and Wall
Street. Take 4 or 5 train to Wall Street or 1 train to Rector Street and walk east..
Maria Dering has offered walking tours throughout Manhattan for more than seven years. She has researched and written for exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Fraunces Tavern Museum, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the South Street Seaport Museum, among others, and has published numerous articles in genealogical and historical periodicals.She holds two degrees from Columbia University.
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