Participez à cette visite à pied de 3 heures à New York pour déguster les meilleurs plats ethniques du Lower East Side. Mais cette expérience va bien au-delà de la simple dégustation de mets savoureux : votre guide vous racontera l'histoire des plats, des établissements, des lieux et des habitants tout au long du parcours.

Depuis Five Points et Mulberry Bend, en passant par les vagues d'immigrants italiens et juifs, et enfin ce qui est aujourd'hui le quartier chinois, cette visite explore le développement d'un paysage rustique de lacs et de fermes dans ce qui est devenu le quartier le plus densément surpeuplé de la planète il y a à peine 100 ans. Le processus progressif, étape par étape, consistant à mettre le besoin de logements adéquats au-dessus de la recherche du profit pour loger les immigrants pauvres, depuis les habitations en sous-sol infestées de maladies dans des bidonvilles en ruine jusqu'aux immeubles d'habitation d'avant, d'après l'ancienne et de la nouvelle loi, cette visite utilise des images pour montrer ce qui n'est plus là, et trouve ce qui continue de se tenir debout dans les murs de la rue aujourd'hui pour raconter l'histoire immensément riche, tragique et rédemptrice du Lower East Side de New York.

The Lower East Side is one of New York City’s most historic immigrant neighborhoods—a place where generations of newcomers began their American story. Since the 1840s, waves of immigrants from Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia have settled here, shaping the neighborhood into one of the most culturally rich areas in the city. On this engaging walking tour, you’ll explore the streets where these communities lived, worked, and built new lives. Discover why immigrants were drawn to the Lower East Side, how the neighborhood transformed over time, and what led many families to eventually move on. Combining food, history, and culture, this tour offers a flavorful journey through the neighborhood that helped shape New York City—and the American immigrant experience.

This is not just a tour, bur interactive theater on the streets! Accompanied by a tour guide throughout, the group meets an actor improvising four or five different characters from history along the way.

Explore Lower Manhattan at your leisure with audioguide on your smartphone. This offline smartphone app features a GPS map of the route, illustrations and audio narration filled with captivating stories about New York City life. Immerse yourself in the vibrant streets and key landmarks at your own pace, without the need to keep up with a tour group. This tour, curated by a professional historian, offers reliable stories and intriguing legends. However, it's not an academic tour, so there's no need to worry about tedious lists of dates and technical terms. The tour encompasses 34 points of interest. Feel free to pause at any time for a coffee break, veer off the path to explore an intriguing side street or resume the route whenever you're ready. You can navigate the tour on foot or by bicycle.

A walking tour meets street theater in this immersive performance of New York language and slang. Set in the historically linguistic melting pot of the Lower East Side, this two hour interactive experience brings the slang, accents, and languages of NYC to life through a performing guide in character as "The Tour" — but all guests participate. •Break the ice with a small talk activity where chalk becomes the marker of your personal space. •Participate in a scavenger hunt for stickers printed with common words New Yorkers pronounce in a funny way •Find newspapers hidden in odd places as a delivery boy recounts in verse the impact media has on our everyday speech. •Dance like it's 1990 in a demonstration of hip hop moves that originated in NYC •Hail a ride from a multilingual Chinatown dispatcher...just be sure you know what street you're on. •Listen to "Nico Ramone" rant about the problems in his bohemian life as you try to guess the words he borrows from Yiddish.