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Love is a Place: A Poet's Walk of Greenwich Village
Sunday, July 12, 2026, 11am
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The Poet E. E. Cummings wrote that “love is a place.”
Perhaps he meant 4 Patchin Place, in Greenwich Village, where he lived from 1924-1962.
Cummings was certainly not the only poet to live in Greenwich Village, and not even the only poet to live on Patchin Place.
In this walking tour of Greenwich Village, we’ll discover the homes and haunts of more than a century of poets who called the neighborhood home. Along the way we’ll meet symbolists and modernists, 19th century salon hostesses and 20th century raconteurs, Pulitzer prize winners and prophets, feminist luminaries and queer pioneers whose words enriched, and even defined, American life.
Kings of the Waterfront: The Making and Remaking of DUMBO
Saturday, July 18, 2026, 11am​
Brooklyn is Kings County, and DUMBO, the waterfront neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges lives up to the name.
Kings of DUMBO include Joshua and Comfort Sands, the 18th Century power brokers who laid DUMBOs Streets; Robert Fulton whose steam ferry spanned the river and built the borough; John Arbuckle the coffee roasting revolutionary whose DUMBO plant roasted more coffee than any other place in the world; Robert Gair, the cardboard box impresario who built so much of DUMBO’s industrial architecture that the neighborhood became known as Gairville, and David Walentas, the real estate developer who bought so much of that industrial architecture in 1981 that in the decades since, he has been able to almost single-handedly shape the neighborhood.
This walking tour traces the building and rebuilding of DUMBO. As we uncover the neighborhood’s exceptional industrial history, explore its spectacular examples of architectural adaptive-reuse, and situate modern DUMBO within the larger story of New York’s reclamation of its post-industrial waterfront, we’ll consider the way the Kings of the Waterfront each consciously sought to shape this place, and ask, how does a neighborhood get made?
Kings of the Waterfront: The Making and Remaking of DUMBO
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 6:30pm​
Brooklyn is Kings County, and DUMBO, the waterfront neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges lives up to the name.
Kings of DUMBO include Joshua and Comfort Sands, the 18th Century power brokers who laid DUMBOs Streets; Robert Fulton whose steam ferry spanned the river and built the borough; John Arbuckle the coffee roasting revolutionary whose DUMBO plant roasted more coffee than any other place in the world; Robert Gair, the cardboard box impresario who built so much of DUMBO’s industrial architecture that the neighborhood became known as Gairville, and David Walentas, the real estate developer who bought so much of that industrial architecture in 1981 that in the decades since, he has been able to almost single-handedly shape the neighborhood.
This walking tour traces the building and rebuilding of DUMBO. As we uncover the neighborhood’s exceptional industrial history, explore its spectacular examples of architectural adaptive-reuse, and situate modern DUMBO within the larger story of New York’s reclamation of its post-industrial waterfront, we’ll consider the way the Kings of the Waterfront each consciously sought to shape this place, and ask, how does a neighborhood get made?