Our Tours

This walking tour offers “a people’s history” and “a history from below” of the New York Police Department (NYPD), arguably the most (in)famous police department in the world.

Perhaps no other neighborhood in the country is more synonymous with historical immigration than the Lower East Side. Though this reputation no longer stands with it today, the vestiges of 200 years of immigrant communities remain with it today. In particular, the LES was home to a growing Jewish population, so large that it became the most dense neighborhood on earth. In this tour, we explore both the religious and the secular past of the Lower East Side, with a focus on these Jewish communities. We will learn about everything from labor uprisings to religious institutions to bagels and knishes!

Harlem, the uncontested capital of Black America, has an unparalleled history that is hard to match by any neighborhood. In this tour, we focus on the Muslim side of this neighborhood history. Muslims have been central to Harlem's history and Harlem has been central to Muslim history in New York and the wider United States. From Sunni Islam to the Nation of Islam to the Five Percenters, numerous sects still thrive in this neighborhood. With new waves of West African immigration, Islam in Harlem has continued to evolve. In this tour, we will hope to get a taste of all of the above.

Muslims and Islam have been on continential North America for over 400 years, long before the idea of "America" itself. But that history is not as well known or appreciated. In this tour, we take a walk of Lower Manhattan, narrating the history of the city through the perspectives of Muslims. Along the way, we will learn about the first Muslim to own property in the US, African slave rebellions, Bengali ship workers, Arab merchants, and much more. We will end in the contemporary era, as we discuss the aftermath of 9/11, and the shape of Muslim New York today.

On this tour we celebrate what was once a unique, multi-ethnic neighborhood that no longer exists. Often unofficially called the “Lower West Side” by local preservationists, it is now the World Trade Center. But once, 27 nationalities called this area home in 1917. In this tour, we uncover that past. We will learn about the transformations of this neighborhood, and along the way, will see the last few vestiges of the area, including a Community House, a tenement, and a former Syrian Church.

The name of Wall Street is synonymous with finance and the economy. It is often pejoratively associated with corporate greed and excess capitalism. In this tour, we explore the 400-year story of Wall Street through the perspective of its “Others,” as we traverse through sites connected to slave rebellions, indigenous resistance, immigrant labor, and social activism.

There are few—if any—neighborhoods in the country that can boast contributing as much to American literature as Greenwich Village (and its extension, the West Village). From Thomas Paine’s “American Crisis” to Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” to Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet” to Malcolm X’s Autobiography, the literary production of this neighborhood is unparalleled. On this tour, 

In this tour, we retrace the steps of Malcolm X through the streets of Harlem as we follow his journey from his teenage years until his death, uncovering the centrality of the neighborhood on his development. This tour is based on “The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley.”

The iconic Bedford-Stuyvesant has a storied history as one of the country’s most iconic Black neighborhoods. It is often regarded as the “Black Medina” (in complement to Harlem, the “Black Mecca”), beckoning to two holy Muslim cities. Walk with us as we uncover the stories of Brooklyn’s Black Medina, and learn about cultural ideas, social movements, and perhaps enjoy some bean pie and brisket along the way.