New York Adventure Club

https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/1979234963054

While the Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa is known today for its namesake film festival, celebrity sightings, and high-end private homes, it was anything but for nearly 400 years. This is the real story of the sailors, merchants, and artists that once called this neighborhood home, and the historical remnants of its artistic and industrial past — with an exclusive peek inside one of its most historic spaces.

Join New York Adventure Club as we explore the rich history and story of TriBeCa ("Triangle Below Canal Street"), a New York City neighborhood that can trace its roots back to the old Dutch days when the land was known as New Amsterdam.

Led by NYC tour guide and TriBeCa native Gardiner Comfort, our neighborhood journey around this fascinating and eclectic small corner of Manhattan's "Lower West Side" will include:

• How New York tamed the TriBeCa landscape and its original wetlands to suit its expansion
• A discussion around the neighborhood's rise with the creation of Washington Market in 1812, once the city's main retail and wholesale food distribution point filled with seed, spice, and cheese importers
• The importance of Tribeca as a center of import, with a focus on the maritime industry, the piers, and longshoremen
• TriBeCa's unique architecture, from its patchwork of landmark designation to the fragility of beautiful buildings in a business-minded city
• The celebration of artists who settled in unused industrial spaces, established their community, and influenced the city for years to come
• An exclusive visit to the historic and eccentric loft space of the Ear Inn, one of New York's oldest bars, for a look at rare artifacts from the 1812 house on Spring Street

Our experience will conclude back on the ground floor of Ear Inn, which has food and drinks available for purchase!

See you there!

*Please bring a water bottle and comfortable pair of shoes as we’ll be doing a lot of walking!

**Optional access into the Ear Inn loft is only accessible by a steep set of stairs

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Event takes place rain or shine.

By attending a New York Adventure Club experience, you accept our terms of service.

Categories: In-Person, Neighborhood Tours

https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/1980484812387

What’s an ornate Japanese-style home doing in the heart of a Brooklyn Victorian neighborhood? Built at the turn of the 20th century as a bold marketing stunt to draw attention to Prospect Park South, the “Japanese House” has stood as one of New York’s most unique private residences for over a century. Now’s your chance to step inside this pagoda-topped curiosity and uncover its fascinating story, straight from the home’s longtime owner.

Join New York Adventure Club for an exclusive tour and lunch inside the iconic and privately owned “Japanese House” of Prospect Park South, an authentic Japanese-style house built in 1903 with the purpose of attracting attention to the newly developed neighborhood.

Led by the current homeowner, our intimate experience limited to six guests will include:

• An overview of the century-old Japanese House and the architectural vision behind Prospect Park South’s development
• The full story behind the fight for landmark designation, including how the home and neighborhood were preserved from demolition in the 1970s
• A guided walk through the home’s first floor, featuring the living room, parlor, dining room, and original kitchen — all with Asian-inspired décor
• A close look at standout features, from hand-crafted dragon sculptures on the fireplace to other historic artifacts and design details
• A relaxing post-tour lunch served in the home’s cozy dining area, offering a chance to reflect and connect

Your ticket includes the house tour with a light lunch provided following the experience.
See you there!

*Tickets will close several hours before the tour to ensure enough food is ordered for lunch

Schedule of Events
12:30-2:00pm: Tour
2:00-3:00pm: Lunch

Disclaimer
By attending a New York Adventure Club experience, you accept our terms of service.
Ticket price is for an educational tour of the Japanese House, with complimentary food and beverages provided following the experience.
Categories: In-Person, Houses

https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/1980813833498

New York City wasn’t just built on ambition — it was built on trash. While the city is famous for its race to the skies, its growth has always depended on what was buried or swept up below. From survival to scandal to unexpected innovation, it’s time to explore the city’s overlooked ecosystem of garbage and vermin — one that shares a story just as compelling as the skyline above.

Join New York Adventure Club as we hit the streets of Lower Manhattan to uncover how garbage, rats, and sanitation crises left their mark — not just on the city's physical landscape, but also its public health systems and political history.

Led by Suzanne Reisman — a NYC licensed tour guide, author of Off the Beaten Subway Track, and graduate of both the NYC Department of Health’s Rat Academy and Department of Sanitation’s Trash Academy — our unique experience will include:

• A walk along Wall Street to examine its origins as a colonial garbage dump and its troubling role in early New York history
• A stroll through the South Street Seaport area exploring landfill expansion, the former Fulton Fish Market, and notorious rat lore
• A visit to DeLury Square and surrounding alleys to unpack the 1968 sanitation strike, union power, and NYC’s garbage politics
• An exploration of Ann Street and Theatre Alley highlighting real rat incidents, rat reproduction, and why we can't kill our way out of the rat problem
• An overview of how modern sanitation systems evolved in response to garbage overload, vermin outbreaks, and civic pressure

If we're lucky, we'll see some rats in action...from a distance!
See you there!

*Please bring a water bottle and comfortable pair of shoes as we’ll be doing a lot of walking!
**This experience concludes at City Hall Park

About Suzanne
Suzanne Reisman specializes in unique, unusual tours of New York City. If you want to delve into the New York City that's off the beaten (subway) track, she literally wrote the book about it — Off the Beaten Subway Track: New York City's Best Unusual Attractions. A proudly foul-mouthed flâneuse who loves exploring the city, Suzanne brings humor, curiosity, and 30+ years of lived experience in her adopted hometown to every tour.
She is a NYC licensed tour guide, a graduate of the NYC Department of Health’s Rat Academy and the Sanitation Foundation’s Trash Academy, and a member of the NYC Rat Pack (New York’s elite squad of dedicated anti-rat activists). She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School, a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University, and a BA from NYU. Suzanne currently lives in Manhattan with her husband, her teddy bear, and the ghost of her 13 lb. pet rabbit — and still insists on calling soda “pop” and sneakers “gym shoes.”

Disclaimer
Event takes place rain or shine.
By attending a New York Adventure Club experience, you accept our terms of service.
Categories: In-Person, Neighborhood Tours

https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/1980202053648

Over the past two decades, one Greenwich Village resident has quietly transformed his residence into a living museum filled with hundreds of rare antiques, mechanical wonders, and bizarre inventions from another time — each with a story to tell, and a lesson to teach. Now he’s inviting curious New Yorkers to step inside and explore a cabinet of curiosities unlike anything else in the city. Get ready for a fun, hands‑on journey through history inside an apartment full of surprises.

Join New York Adventure Club for a behind‑the‑scenes visit to the headquarters of The Museum of Interesting Things, a dynamic traveling exhibition of antiques and inventions curated to inspire curiosity, creativity, and a deeper appreciation for how innovation evolves over time.

Led by Denny Daniel, Founder and Curator of The Museum of Interesting Things, our unique experience will include:

• A behind-the-scenes look at the origins and evolution of The Museum of Interesting Things, and how one man’s curiosity turned into a traveling exhibition
• Hands-on time with rare artifacts from the collection, including wind-up record players, Edison wax cylinders, stereoscopes, and rotary phones
• Interactive demonstrations of mechanical marvels in action, such as a 1920s mutoscope, Victorian optical toys, and a rotor from an original Enigma machine
• How these objects shaped daily life and innovation, with surprising insights into their cultural and technological impact

This experience is limited to ten guests.
See you there!

*The exact apartment of the Museum of Interesting Things headquarters will be revealed in the ticket confirmation email sent immediately upon registration.
***Please note that space within the residence is limited; most items from the collection will be brought to a central area for showcasing.

About Denny
Denny Daniel started working as a freelance filmmaker/documentor and photo retoucher/restorer for such companies as The Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island, Songs of Love, and the New York Times.
Amassing his collection of antiques since the 1980’s, and having had over 20 museum and gallery exhibitions of his own work at locations like the Chelsea Art Museum, he decided to use his knowledge, experience, contacts and extensive collection of over 300 antiques to start an enterprise that would inspire students and some of us in the “real” world to learn from the past and innovate a better future.

Testimonials
"It gave an opportunity to see obscure things" -Olga
"Very entertaining presenter" - Klaus-Peter

Disclaimer
By attending a New York Adventure Club experience, you accept our terms of service.
By attending this specific New York Adventure Club experience, you allow The Museum of Interesting Things to contact you afterward.