Strange and Quirky Manhattanville with Optional Live Music on the Hudson River

RSVP's begin Monday, August 11 at 9:00pm. Space is set aside for new members of our group, first and 2nd timers who land on the waiting list. Email me at hankorenstein@gmail.com to request a spot once you have RSVPd.

Guided tour and live music are free with a welcome contribution to your guide at the end via cash, venmo or zelle.

About the music which runs from 7pm-8pm. This is all-female brass sextet playing original arrangments of popular songs:
Calliope Brass
https://calliopebrass.org/

Schedule/Itinerary
5:00pm: Optional networking and social time at Dear Mama Cafe, 611 West 129th Street (one block from our meeting place at 6pm): They also serve food and alcoholic beverages.
https://www.dearmamacoffee.com/
5:45pm: Our tour begins outside The Forum at Columbia University's Forum Manhattanville Campus. located at 125th Street & Broadway.
There are public restrooms inside the building and places to sit.
5:45pm - 7:30pm: Walking tour of Manhattanville
7:30pm - 8:00pm: Stay for the music if you like.

Tour Overview
Manhattanville is an off-the grid West Harlem neighborhood with its own unique character and history as an industrial area and village that was established in the year 1806, and now where Columbia University has been establishing its new 17-acre campus. A remnant of this 19th century village exists in the form of St. Mary's Episcopal Church (pictured).

We'll uncover the area's history of life-saving milk processing, and brewing beer, stroll some of its streets like Old Broadway and Tiemann Place and visit West Harlem Piers Park, one of Manhattan’s newer riverfront green spaces that also features one of the city's more unique eateries - Baylander Steel Beach, a former aircraft carrier docked on the Hudson River. There's also the original Dinosaur Barbeque and the famous Cotton Club which has been in Manhattanville since the 1970s.

After an approximately 100-minute guided walk we’ll land at West Harlem Pier's Park which is not far from our starting point at 125th Street.

Cheers,

Hank
hankorenstein@gmail.com
646-596-3005