Free Tour of Chinatown, Little Italy and SoHo

Your Guru: Paseos por la ciudad
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New York
Available in Spanish
1 hour and 30 minutes

About the Guru

I am Andrea Kropman, Uruguayan by birth and currently residing in New York. I studied Social Communication in Uruguay, and in Spain I worked for 15 years as Coordinator of Digital Communication. In 2010, I started with the project "Jane's Walks" in Madrid, an international initiative that pays tribute to Jane Jacobs. In recent years I alternated my work as a communicator with the design of tours of the cities I lived in: Madrid, Barcelona and London. Upon arriving in NYC, I became an Official Tourism Guide. You will find me guiding tours of various walking tour agencies and you can check the quality of my work through the opinions of other people who enjoyed my tours. As an inhabitant and migrant from different cities, I have a social and global vision that will provide you with daily information and reveal unknown data.

About the Tour

The tour will be through the Lower East Side to the migrant neighborhoods: Chinatown and La Picola Italia.
In the 19th century, in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, this area had a marginal population of diverse origins. Here, right here, ghettos of emigrants who came from distant lands to carve out a future were created. What they found was a city under construction, a chaotic state without law or order. Everything was yet to be done, those people who did not know how to read and write, much less speak the language, made their way to New York. They chose to gather in communities of people from the same country who, coincidentally, lived in the Manhattan area with the cheapest rental housing. In collectives, they were able to survive poorly.
The neighborhoods of Chinatown and La Piccola Italia; the famous Five Points fighting venue; the restaurants that were a meeting place for the Chinese and Italian unions; the well-known Tenement, buildings where the emigrants lived; the first Diamond District of German Jews; the old factories turned into underworlds where Irish and African Americans lived together in search of freedom, escaping from the slave camps of Virginia.

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