Check out our Alternative New York Tour and discover the real New York from the perspective of a local who lived through many of the city’s challenges and changes. As we stroll the streets of the East Village and the Bowery, you will visit the homes and haunts of poets, writers, musicians and artists, who helped shape the cutting edge culture of New York City today. You’ll see street art from well-known graffiti artists and sticker art that changes day to day. You’ll hear about the tragic events that have left New Yorkers weeping and you’ll witness inspirational community activism that keeps New Yorkers moving forward every day.
Sights include:
- The Houston-Bowery Mural Wall – first made famous in the late 1970′s by artist and aids activist, Keith Haring
- St. Mark’s Place – where dozens of political and literary revolutionary and genre-changing writers lived.
- Trash and Vaudeville where punk rockers like the Ramones and Blondie shopped, recently lauded by the New York Times as the “The Shop That Punk Built” and the former site of CBGBs, the cradle of punk rock and
- Tompkins Square Park – whose history includes riots, political protests and even an infamous cannibalistic murder
- The Mosaic Trail – noted by National Geographic as one of the must-see sights of New York City.
- Sites of former ground-breaking punk rock concert venues like the Fillmore East and Andy Warhol's Electric Circus
- Community gardens such as The Creative Little Garden and whose creation challenged the city’s neglect of the neighborhood
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