La Dolce Vita in Nolita 2026

Sunday June 7, 11:30 am – 1:30 (or 2) pm
Manhattan

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. Bring your lunch for a pleasant picnic in the Elizabeth St Garden. Toilets are available inside REI at the start of the walk and in St Pat's at the end.

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](mailto:kevinjaykelley@gmail.com)