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Join Outdoors Club! Visit interesting places and meet new people around the NYC area. Some activities are easy, and others difficult. All are reached by public transit.
ARE YOU A MEMBER? Joining this Meetup group does not make you an Outdoors Club member. Non-members pay one-day dues of $5 to attend an Outdoors Club event. By becoming an annual dues paying member, you won't have to pay $5 per event, be notified of Member-Only events not posted on Meetup, and help pay for Outdoors Club nonprofit expenses. https://outdoorsclubny.org/membership/
RSVP COURTESY: We appreciate you being a considerate Outdoors Club community member. There often are more people wanting to attend than spots available. Sign up only if you intend to show up. If you have to cancel, please change your RSVP as early as possible to allow someone on the waitlist an opportunity attend.
QUESTIONS? If you have any questions about an event, please contact the leader directly (email/phone included in event description). For general questions about Outdoors Club, please email us at outdoorsclubny@yahoo.com.
Your participation in any of our activities is your acknowledgment that you are solely responsible for your own assessment of your abilities and your physical fitness to participate in that activity. Participants in any Outdoors Club activity are encouraged to discuss with the hike leader any limitation they may have that could affect their ability to fully participate in an event. The hike leader may refuse to take anyone who lacks proper equipment or adequate ability. Walkers must be physically fit and by joining any event you agree to waive all rights and claims for damages against Outdoors Club, its hike leaders, officers, directors, employees or volunteers.
Outdoors Club does not tolerate inappropriate behavior during its events. If you are subject to or witness any inappropriate behavior during an Outdoors Club event, please report the behavior to us at outdoorsclubny@yahoo.com. We will investigate and take necessary action.
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- Jewish Lower East Side—Synagogues, Tenements, SchoolsThe Tenement Museum, New York, NY
Sunday, June 1, 2025—10:30 am-2:00 pm
ManhattanHow to Find Us: Meet outside the NYC Tenement Museum, 97-103 Orchard St (southwest corner of Delancey St). Nearest subway stations are Grand St for the B and D trains and Delancey St/Essex St for the F, J, M and Z trains. Toilets are available in the basement. We’ll stop for lunch (bring your own) around noon in Sara Roosevelt Park (Rivington St between Chrystie and Forsyth), where toilets are also available.
Details: Limited to 25 walkers. $5 for non-members of the Outdoors Club.
NOTE: This walk focuses on the Jewish presence in the Lower East Side south of Houston St—not to be confused with the East Village. We’ll view several current and former synagogues, as well as some of the neighborhood’s tenements that housed generations of Jewish and gentile immigrants. Schools and settlement houses are also on the route, along with sites associated with other immigrant groups—and with today’s hipster residents.
The walk will cover about five miles because some of the stops are a few blocks away from one another. Those preferring a shorter distance can leave the walk at the Eldridge St Museum, which we’ll reach at about 12:45 pm. Entrance fee is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors. A guided tour starts at 1 pm. Walkers not wishing to visit the museum can continue with me to view additional historic sites. We end at St. Mary’s Church, 438 Grand St. It’s a few blocks from the Delancey St station for the F, J, M and Z trains.Kevin J Kelley
802-989-1669
kevinjaykelley@gmail.com
