Weekend Walking Tours: June's Here
This weekend's walking tours (tour sponsors in brackets):
Don't Demo Domino Benefit [us]
Walk to Grand Ferry Park and listen to music - support the preservation of the Domino Sugar Refinery.
Another great concert event is coming up - the Act Local Don't Demo Domino concert at Grand Ferry Park. The event will held on Sunday, 3 June, from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm, and features music by Nada Surf, The Wau Wau Sisters, Cheeseburger, Vic Thrill & the Saturn Missile, the Hungry Marching Band and The Black Tie Party.
The event is sponsored by SchofieldFilms, Brooklyn Brewery, Underground Press, the Brooklyn Ale House and Chiara Sullivan.
And best of all - its all free! Act Local only asks that you sign WPA's Don't Demo Petition in order to enjoy an afternoon of free music. And afterwards, join us at the Ale House for the afterparty.
The East Village [GVSHP]
Sunday, June 3, 1:00 p.m.
$12 GVSHP members/seniors; $15 general public
The East Village: Culture and Counter Culture: A Walking Tour with Joyce Gold From Stuyvesant's bouwerie to the Tompkins Square riot—an area rich in ethnic diversity. Joyce Gold, author of From Trout Stream to Bohemia: A Walking Guide to Greenwich Village History, will lead a tour highlighting the historic sites of the East Village.
Reservations recommended: 212-475-9585 x 34 or rsvp[at]gvshp.org
