Tours - Patriotic New York

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Abraham Lincoln's New York
Join us as we walk in the footsteps of greatness as we trace Abraham Lincoln's visits to New York in 1857, 1860, and 1861--each having a significant impact upon his career and life.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park

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Alexander Hamilton's New York
Learn how Alexander Hamilton came to New York City for a college education, became a Patriot who fought for a new nation and then helped get the U.S. Constitution ratified, and helped build New York City in war and peace. Finally, learn how he was killed by Aaron Burr in 1804.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park

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Freedom Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
We will visit various patriotic sites in both New York and Brooklyn as we celebrate the nation's birthday.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park

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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in New York and Brooklyn
Join us as we walk in the footsteps of greatness as we trace George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's visits in war and peace to New York and Brooklyn. We will walk over the Brooklyn Bridge to Washington and Lincoln sites in Brooklyn.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park

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George Washington's New York
George Washington was the first to use the term to use "New-Yorker," in a letter he wrote in 1754 and coined New York State's nickname, "the Empire State." Discover the New York of General Washington during the American Revolution and how he launched the new nation as president of the United States.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park

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Presidential Promenade
We will view sites associated with presidential greatness: Abraham Lincoln's favorite hotel, the first White House, George Washington's favorite horse trail, and where Richard Nixon got his wallet pick-pocketed.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park

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United We Stand: New York in War and Peace from Henry Hudson to Ground Zero and the Present Day
Discover the impact of war on New York City from the frontier wars with the Algonquin Indians on Wall Street to the present war on terrorism. Discover the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and George W. Bush connections! Learn how New York City has been _the center of military action.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park

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Struggle for Liberty: Revolutionary Manhattan
Learn about the American struggle for freedom from colonial times to the Civil War. We will visit Federal Hall where the Peter Zengar trial established freedom of the press and the First United States Congress drafted the Bill of Rights, City Hall Park where the Declaration of Independence was read by George Washington, and Battery Park where the British flag was torn down and replaced by the American flag.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park. Do not confuse with the Blimpie's on Church Street

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Thomas Jefferson's New York
Thomas Jefferson considered New York the "cloaca of the universe." Perhaps that is why he made a deal with Alexander Hamilton to move our nation's capital out of New York City to Washington. This tour will show the positive and negative aspects of the Big Apple when he lived there.

Meeting Place:Inside Blimpie's Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park. Do not confuse with the Blimpie's on Church Street

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A Time for Patriots
We will visit sites associated with patriots of diverse backgrounds that loved their country, sought to make it better, and defended it. We will visit sites, statues and memorials associated with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Emma Goldman Marquise de Lafayette, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Peter Cooper, Abe Cahan, Mark Twain, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Emma Lazarus.

Meeting Place:In front of the Lincoln Statue in Union Square Park. Cross Streets are Broadway and 17th Street

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