Manhattan's Hidden Gems: Audubon Park and Jumel Terrace

RSVPs open up on Saturday, April 25th at 10am.
Space is set aside for new group members and first and 2nd timers who land on the waiting list. If this is you kindly email me at hankorenstein@gmail.com to request a spot after you register.

This event is the first in a series of three tours to raise awareness of this unique linear park in the center of Broadway. The malls extend from Lincoln Center to 168th Street. This tour series has been annual tradition for many years with our group. This tour costs $10.00 (payable the day of the tour) with all proceeds to the Broadway Mall Association (BMA), a non-profit organization that has worked to beautify and maintain the malls. Read more here: www.broadwaymall.org.

Our meeting place is in front of the Hispanic Museum and Library on Audubon Terrace (pictured). It opens at 12 noon and admission is basically free with a suggested admission policy.
You have to register in advance to secure your ticket, You can put in 0$ or contribute a small amount. It is deserved!
Here's the link:
**https://tickets.hispanicsociety.org/**

Arrive by 1:30pm (earlier if you plant to visit the Academy of Arts and Letters) to see the exhibits. The featured exhibit at the Hispanic Society is described below, and use the restroom which you will find by going down the stairs by the entrance. We will depart on our walking tour at 2:00pm. This extraordinary courtyard (pictured above) was once America's premiere museum and cultural district!

Option: Restrooms are also available at the gallery of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and no advance ticket is necessary. It is located at the end of the courtyard (pictured), past the entrance to the Hispanic Society Museum.
**https://www.artsandletters.org/exhibitions**

The #1 subway gets you right there. #4 and #5 buses also stop at 155th and 157th Street & Broadway.

To bring: water to drink, snacks and a hat for the sun are recommended.
This walk will cover the area from 155th Street to 168th Street both East and West of Broadway in Lower Washington Heights. Tour ends at 168th Street and Broadway convenient to both the A and #1 subways.
Optional hangout for a drink and/or a bite at a local establishment.

TOUR OVERVIEW
The Audubon Park area, a distinctive residential enclave and historic district, was once the home of painter and naturalist John James Audubon and now is occupied by Manhattan's only active cemetery (Trinity Church Cemetery). We'll take in some of the street art that is part of the Audubon Mural project which seeks to represent over 300 species of birds whose existence is threatened by climate change,

Further uptown we'll also visit the grounds of the delightful Morris Jumel Mansion - Manhattan's oldest house built in 1765 which once served as General George Washington's headquarters during the Fall of 1776 and where in 1790 as President he had his first dinner with members of his cabinet: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. You will scarcely believe that you are in Manhattan while strolling these quiet streets that surround the mansion. Rounding out the tour will be a stop at the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial, and for baseball fans we will traverse the site where the Yankees began as the New York Highlanders.

## Featured Hispanic Society Museum Exhibit: Tierra Insurgente

"The work of Los Angeles-based Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez challenges the assumption that visualizing space is a neutral act. Created on handmade amate bark paper with natural pigment and grounded in Indigenous Mesoamerican traditions of mapping, healing, and storytelling, her work insists that every image of land carries ethical weight. Across her practice, the earth emerges as a living archive—shaped by violence and care, erasure and survival. References to pandemic-era grief, Black Lives Matter demonstrations, migrant detention centers, and California wildfires appear alongside ancestral symbols, medicinal plants, and scenes of hip-hop dance." Read more via this link:
https://hispanicsociety.org/exhibition/sandy-rodriguez-tierra-insurgente/

Cheers,
Hank
646-596-3005