A special 2-for-1 combination tour in celebration of Juneteenth! Start with our walking tour, W3: Reclaiming Black Spaces, to visit five local sites of Black and African American history. Next, join our apartment tour 4A: Moores, featuring the story of Joseph and Rachel Moore, a Black couple living in Lower Manhattan in the years after the Civil War.

Through these tours you’ll encounter diverse stories of African-descended communities in Lower Manhattan, from the Black farmers of New Amsterdam and the 18th century founders of the Second African Burial Ground to the little-known history of the 19th century pre-Harlem Black tenement community and the 1960s Civil Rights activists working on the Lower East Side. Throughout, we’ll explore how communities and families remember and preserve their histories for the next generations, and how everyday people are part of New York and American History.