Washington Square and the Birth of 5th Ave
Join Untapped New York's Chief Experience Officer Justin Rivers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of NYC's famous thoroughfare on a tour of lower 5th Ave!
Tour Highlights:
- Gaze upon some of the oldest remaining mansions of Washington Square and lower Fifth Ave
- Hear how the first grand houses on Fifth Ave inspired the excesses of the Gilded Age
- Discover the last original gas lamp in Manhattan
- Wander over to some of Greenwich Village’s iconic residential alleys
- See the Greenwich Village townhouse that was turned into a bomb in the 1970s
- Visit one of the oldest cemeteries in Manhattan tucked away on the corner of a Village side street
About this Event:
Fifth Avenue turned 200 this year! In 1824, the central avenue of Manhattan’s radical new street grid system began at the foot of a potter's field and cut through 13 blocks of marshy farmland in old Greenwich Village. Its creation would turn that field into Washington Square Park and the intended Mayfair of New York was born. As soon as the first mansions rose up on the new dirt avenue the roots of the Gilded Age were born with lavish balls and royal hosts.
Join a tour that examines the relationship between the Village’s iconic Washington Square and the genteel age of early Fifth Avenue. Stroll by extant 19th-century mansions, discover hidden Greenwich Village alleys and look upon one of the oldest cemeteries in New York City. Learn how the old “blue blood” age of early Fifth Avenue gave way to the excesses of the Gilded Age and then the later Bohemian era we all associate Greenwich Village with today.
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