New York Offbeat Walks 2

This is NOT your typical guide—this book will show you the quirkier side of New York: the places where Barack Obama once lived as a student, where Nazi sympathizers marched, and where the Vanderbilts dazzled guests during the Gilded Age. Discover lost rivers, a house that appears on a Led Zeppelin album, and the immigrants who reshaped America. Walk through locations from iconic films, including When Harry Met Sally, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Along the way, you’ll explore community gardens, spot Stars of David embedded in old tenement facades, and pass brownstones once home to legends of jazz, film, science, and politics.

(11 WALKS)

1. Brooklyn Heights
2. Cobble Hill to Carroll Gardens
3. New York’s Earliest Theatres
4. Lower East Side
5. East Village
6. Murray Hill and Turtle Bay
7. Gilded Age
8. Yorkville
9. East Harlem
10. Central Park North
11. Manhattan Valley to Morningside Heights