My tour covers Greenwich Village history from Native Americans, and founding fathers to the 20th century. I am also giving my history growing up in the village and telling of the people I have known.

The walk takes approximately two hours. We meet at the northwest corner of 8^th Avenue and 14^th Street or at a any location convenient to clients. I do not lead my walks with a flag and there and theres no double decker bus or set time for my walks to begin. I take guests when they choose it is convienent to them. If only one person books a walk. I do reccomend 10 AM. For one my walk takes at least two hours. So this starting time gives visitors the rest of the day to explore the village or go to places such as museums or China Town.

As we wind through the heart of Greenwich Village and its picturesque streets, I’ll tell you some intriguing stories:

• Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, collected excise taxes from ships at the foot of Gansevoort Street named after his maternal grandfather in the historic Meat Market.
• The High Line — resurrected as New York’s “hanging garden” which is one of the most popular visited places in New York City. It was put into service in 1930 as an elevated freight line to transport produce; such as, beef and poultry for the meat market. The last load of turkeys was delivered in 1980.
• The once Bell Laboratories where 20^th century electronics were developed. It is now called Westbeth which are artists’ lofts.
• Jane Street is where the mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton was taken after his duel with Aaron Burr.
• I’ll show you the former rooming house where John Wilkes Booth tried to recruit another actor into his conspiracy to abduct President Lincoln.
• I’ll tell you about poets, writers, undiscovered artists, and actors, such as James Baldwin, the sculptor Heim Gross whose studio was next door to me on Horatio Street.
• We’ll pass through MacDougal Street, which is named for a privateer and American patriot Alexander McDougal.
• If you like, we may stop at one of the Village coffee shops for refreshments or for a rest in the little St Luke’s Garden.
• As a child I played in the fountain in Washington Square Park. At that same fountain, as a teenager, we protested the ban on music in the park in 1961. There a hundred thousand marched in 1933 against Fascism in Europe. More recently the Wall Street protests.
• Greenwich Village has two centuries of architecture. From late 18^th c. federal style town houses to the Island Park built on concrete pillars shaped like mushrooms in the Hudson river.