For all programs, please RSVP to lfitzpatrick@gvshp.org, or call 212-475-9585 x39
Tuesday, March 4 th , 7:00 PM
Lecture and book signing with Evan Pritchard
Cooper Square (Kin-tay-koy-ying) at the Crossroads of History, a Native American View
Free to all. Reservations required.
The Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 East 11 th Street
Evan Pritchard , author of the recently published Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York, will take us on a journey through the history of Cooper Square/Astor Place and the surrounding Village/East Village/Noho crossroads through Native American eyes, and demonstrate how its story traces the story of America. What happened to the Algonquin citizens of Lenape Hoking who used to meet and hear oratory at this very crossroads is a remarkable tale.
Using archaeology, linguistics, and oral and written histories, this talk will link the legacy of the Lenape with NY’s development as a city, and with situations we are faced with today. Lecture will be followed by question and answers and a book signing.
March 29 th , 1:00 PM
Walking Tour with Joyce Gold
The Immigrant, Radical, and Notorious Women of Washington Square
$10 for GVSHP members, $12 for non-members. Reservations required.
For meeting place, please call 212-475-9585 x39
Historian Joyce Gold will present a walking tour through Washington Square, with an emphasis on the women who have lived there. Washington Square has been the home of many of the political, creative, and intellectual movements in New
York’s history, not least in part to its consistently amazing female population. Perhaps in no other six blocks on earth have so many notable women lived and achieved for the last 150 years. Throughout the years, it has seen an unparalleled variety of women—working class, gentry, radical, literary, academic, theatrical, convict, and immigrant. Eleanor
Roosevelt, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Lila Acheson Wallace, Paulette Goddard, Emily Roebling, Bella Abzug,
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Ida Tarbell, Emily Post all shared this famed New York neighborhood.
DATE TBD, 1:00 PM
Walking Tour with David Carter and Bill Morgan
The Beats on the Lower East Side
$12 for members, $15 for non-members. Reservations required.
For meeting place, please call 212-475-9585 x39
The Beats were an association of poets, novelists and musicians who, starting in the 1940’s, sought a new way to see the world. Their quest for this new vision laid the groundwork for the cultural and artistic innovations of the 1960’s. From early in their careers, the Beats lived and worked on the Lower East Side, and this tour will take you to the key locations associated with them. The tour will be led by two colleagues of Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s archivist and editor of Deliberate Prose
, a collection Ginsberg’s essays, and David Carter, editor of
Spontaneous Mind
, Ginsberg’s interviews.
April 2 nd , 6:30 PM
Lecture with Emily Folpe
It Happened on Washington Square
Free to all. Reservations required.
Jefferson Market Library, 425 6 th Avenue
Washington Square has been a vital public space for two centuries. Farmed by New Amsterdam's freed blacks, the site served as a potter's field after the Revolutionary War, then a parade ground and finally a park built under Boss Tweed.
The talk, Illustrated with archival prints and photographs, will trace the evolution of the site and the developmenment of its architecture, focusing on the Square's colorful social history and its longstanding identification as a place of celebration, protest and civic activism.
April 19 th , 1:00 PM
Walking Tour with Arthur Marks
Astor Place: 17 th
Century Country to 21 st
Century City
$12 for members, $15 for non-members. Reservations required.

For meeting place, please call 212-475-9585 x39
Starting at St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery, the oldest church site in New York City, the tour will explore the Renwick Triangle,
James Fennimore Cooper’s home, and St. Mark’s Place. We will view Cooper Square, the Joseph Papp Public Theater,
La Grange Terrace, the Old Merchant’s House, Grace Church, and the sites of the Yiddish Theater.