Neighborhood Walking Tours

Building on the Lower East Side

Get 30% off your tour using code WALK at checkout!

Join a Museum educator as they guide you on an outdoor walking tour of the Lower East Side to reveal the unique stories that buildings can tell. Over the neighborhood’s history, many different communities have lived, worked and played here––and just as many communities have had ideas about what the neighborhood’s buildings should look like. On this tour, explore the changes in buildings before, during and after the era of tenements, and how the Lower East Side’s architecture mirrors debates across the city and country.

Among others, stops on this tour include:

  • The 1950s utopian, Modernist Seward Park Housing Cooperative, an experiment in co-owned housing
  • An 1830s row house, one of the oldest structures in the neighborhood
  • Angel Orensanz Center, a 19th Century synagogue repurposed as an art and performance space
Neighborhood Walking Tours

Building on the Lower East Side

Get 30% off your tour using code WALK at checkout!

Join a Museum educator as they guide you on an outdoor walking tour of the Lower East Side to reveal the unique stories that buildings can tell. Over the neighborhood’s history, many different communities have lived, worked and played here––and just as many communities have had ideas about what the neighborhood’s buildings should look like. On this tour, explore the changes in buildings before, during and after the era of tenements, and how the Lower East Side’s architecture mirrors debates across the city and country.

Among others, stops on this tour include:

  • The 1950s utopian, Modernist Seward Park Housing Cooperative, an experiment in co-owned housing
  • An 1830s row house, one of the oldest structures in the neighborhood
  • Angel Orensanz Center, a 19th Century synagogue repurposed as an art and performance space
Tour type
Neighborhood Walking Tours
Tour Location
Tour begins at 103 Orchard Street
Tour Duration
90 minutes
Recommended ages
Ages 0 + Permitted
Wheelchair Accessible
Distance icon
1.07 miles

Accessibility | For visitors using assistive listening devices: Please note that our walking tours use audio amplification devices that are not compatible with most hearing aids.

For questions about tour accessibility, please e-mail [email protected].

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Admission

  • Individual $30
  • Individual Using a Wheelchair $25
  • Child 5 and Under $0

Member

  • Member $0

Book this tour as a private experience!

Host a private tour for a small group at a flat rate of $360 (on Monday – Friday between 10 am – 5 pm) and $450 outside of business hours and on weekends and holidays. Members receive a 15% discount.

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