🏨 Half-Day African-American New York City Heritage Tour Activity

Half-Day African-American New York City Heritage Tour

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From $109.00

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 4 hours

Departs: New York, New York

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

Overview

Explore the rich history and legacy of Black New Yorkers. Learn about their life in colonial New York City since 1613 under Dutch then, British rule. Visit Wall Street which housed a slave market a transformative commodity that gave rise to the American economy. See the African Burial Ground and the sites of the first black churches and communities downtown in the Five Points district, Little Africa in the Village, and Uptown's York Hill / Seneca Village now Central Park.

Visit Harlem a Mecca for intellectuals, writers, and artists who forged the Harlem Renaissance. See the Schomberg center for research in Black Culture. Explore the trajectory of Black New Yorkers through their resilience in the face of adversity, their creativity in the face of abject oppression, and their skillful political organization that has forever shaped American life.

What's Included

A few stops to walk around the neighborhoods and take pictures

Informative, friendly, professional guide

What's Not Included

Food and drinks

Gratuities

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Traveler Information

CHILD: Age: 3 - 11
ADULT: Age: 12 - 99

Additional Info

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

South Street Seaport Historic District

See some of the oldest architecture and the largest concentration of restored early 19th-century commercial buildings in the city. New York was a major player in the Tans-Atlantic Slave Trade which persisted despite it being outlawed.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Wall Street

Built by Africans to protect the Dutch settlement, Wall street
Housed NYC’s First Slave Market where African and Native Americans were bought, sold, and leased as day laborers.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Trinity Church

Archives from June 1696 mention that the church used slave labor to construct a thirst church. The church practiced services for enslaved and free africans like catechism, burials, in its churchyard and was a precursor to the Free African Schools.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

African Burial Ground National Monument

Workers on a construction site uncovered the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries; the largest colonial-era cemetery for people of African descent. The memorial was dedicated in 2007 to commemorate the role of Africans and African Americans in colonial and federal New York City, and in United States history.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Foley Square

Originally the site of New York City's first free black settlement, by 1850 the Five Points district in lower Manhattan had instead become infamous for its dance halls, bars, gambling houses, prostitution, and for its mixed-race clientele.

• Admission Ticket Free

Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and Lower Manhattan was the home to North America’s earliest free Black settlement in the 1640s. Minetta Lane, Street and Place were called “Little Africa” . Mother AME Zion Church was the first Black church in New York City.

• Admission Ticket Free

Central Park

Before Central Park was created, from West 82nd to West 89th Street was the site of Seneca Village, a community of predominantly African-Americans, many of whom owned property. The residents were forced to leave when The city acquired the land through eminent domain

• Admission Ticket Free

Harlem

Explore Harlem and witness its ongoing renaissance.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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