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Epic Walking Tours provides historic walking tours in Greenwich Village, New York.

10/05/2024

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney funded the construction of Greenwich House more than a century ago. Still in operation today, this nonprofit provided housing for immigrants. Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum, started an art school for children in Greenwich House. Amelia Earhart volunteered and lived here from 1927-29.

07/05/2024

The Washington Arch opened in 1892 to honor the centennial anniversary of George Washington's inauguration on the Federal Hall balcony in New York City in 1789. The two statues of Washington were added in 1918. The Arch has a spiral staircase inside that leads to an office that has been closed for more than a century.

15/04/2024

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11/04/2024

Epic Walking Tours visits the Jefferson Market Courthouse (a library since 1967) in Greenwich Village, New York. When it was built in 1877, it had a jail attached to it (now a garden) and the first elevated train that ran along Sixth Avenue.

02/04/2024

Epic Walking Tours visits the Washington Square Park Arch, which was built by Stanford White. White also built the original Madison Square Garden, which was located on the northeast corner of Madison Square Park in Flatiron. You can learn about the fascinating history of MSG and White on the tour. epicwalkingtours.com

Photo courtesy of the Detroit Publishing Company (1900).

30/03/2024

Epic Walking Tours visits the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building in Greenwich Village, New York. This tragic photo shows the bodies of women and children killed in the fire. About 70 girls jumped out of the eighth and ninth-floor windows, many of whom were on fire and holding hands on their way down. An exhibit in front of the building lists the names of the 146 victims who lost their lives that day. The workers had protested their unsafe working conditions for years leading up to the fire. Many of the workplace protections currently provided under the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHA) resulted from this fire.

Photo courtesy of the Bain Collection at the Library of Congress (1911).

26/03/2024

Epic Walking Tours visits the Jefferson Market Courthouse in Greenwich Village, New York. This photo shows the back of the courthouse and jail. The jail confined women like actress Mae West when the Society for the Suppression of Vice arrested her for public obscenity under the Comstock Act. It also held women arrested for peacefully protesting dangerous working conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Now known as the Jefferson Market Library, the building is a National Historic Landmark. Learn more: epicwalkingtours.com

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

25/03/2024

Epic Walking Tours visits Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York. ASPCA founder Henry Bergh lived and worked in the Village, where passed the first animal cruelty laws in the United States, installed the first fountain in Washington Square Park to provide drinking water for horses, and built ambulances to rescue sick and abused horses in the city. Learn more: https://epicwalkingtours.com/the-united-states-animal-rights-movement-begins-in-greenwich-village/

Photo of Henry Bergh on his ambulance courtesy of the New York Times (1870).

25/03/2024

Epic Walking Tours visits the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building in Greenwich Village, New York. In 1911, 146 immigrants, mostly young women and children, were killed in this building because they did not have labor laws to protect them. Women protesting working conditions in the years leading up to the fire endured assault and arrest. Many of our current workplace protections resulted from their death. Learn more: www.epicwalkingtours.com

Photo of people gathering on the street after the fire courtesy of the Bain Collection (1911).

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