Retracing the 4th MAS Walking Tour - SOLD OUT

On the occasion of its 60th anniversary, Francis Morrone will retrace the route of Henry Hope Reed's fourth MAS walking tour, which took in quite an area, in what is now known as the East Village, NoHo, and NoLita. In 1957 this was a mostly "downmarket" part of Manhattan, and many of the tourgoers had spent little time in the area. What they saw was new to them but what was mostly new, and truly revelatory, was Mr. Reed's eloquent assertion that the buildings they saw - not just the churches but the grimy industrial buildings and rundown tenements - were beautiful, historic, and worthy of preservation. Today we take such thoughts for granted. On this tour we will try to recapture the mindset of 1957, and also look at how things have changed in what is now a very fashionable part of town. Cost: $30 / $20 Members.