La Dolce Vita in Nolita

How to Find Us: Meet outside REI Camping Store, 303 Lafayette St. The B, D, F and M trains stop diagonally across E Houston St at the Broadway-Lafayette station. The Bleecker St station for the 6 train is a block away. I’ll send toilet location info in a comment on Mon, April 20. Bring your lunch for a pleasant picnic in the Elizabeth St Garden.

Limited to 25 walkers. $5 for non-members of the NY Outdoors Club. Plus, $20 for optional admission to the St Patrick’s Basilica catacombs tour at the conclusion of the walk.

NOTE: Nolita (North of Little Italy) is a compact but vibrant and hip neighborhood with some outstanding sights. We’ll visit the Basilica of St Patrick’s Old Cathedral which opened in 1815 — 64 years prior to the more famous St Patrick’s on Fifth Ave. The church complex includes catacombs that contain the remains of several local family members. Also on the roughly three-mile walk is the Elizabeth St Garden, focus of a long-running fight over green space vs senior housing. We’ll also view several decorated tenements, a few strikingly post-modernist condo buildings and at least one surviving Italian American butcher shop.

Kevin J Kelley
802 989 1669
kevinjaykelley@gmail.com

Please do not RSVP for this walk unless you truly plan to attend. Please alter your RSVP as soon as you know your plans have changed. This is especially important to allow those on the waiting list to attend.