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Jewish Influence During the Gilded Age: A Walking Tour

Walk from the Plaza to the Met on Fifth Avenue looking at the mansions and talk about the Jewish influence in the neighborhood. The Harmonie Club, Guggenheim’s, Adler’s, Strauss’, Goldman, Berkman and Frick, Temple Emanu-El, and even Jeffrey Epstein.

Your guide, Urban Historian and educator Bradley Shaw, was born on the Lower East Side, has a BA in History and Education from Brooklyn College and is a licensed NYC tour guide. He shares with us his love of the neighborhood and passion for its history. He has been a docent, walking tour guide and manager at the Museum at Eldridge Street for more than six years, in addition to doing walking tours for the LESJC, Context Travel and his own company NY History Tours.