Urban Oyster Tours

i am also in love with walking tours because other than being a great way to meet people, they offer you information on a city’s layout and history. combine a walking tour with food, and i am in paradise. i recently took urban oyster’s tenements, tales, and tastes tour of the lower east side. the tour gives people a glimpse into new york's immigrant history and how it has shaped new york’s cultural and historical sites in the lower east side, chinatown, and little italy.the tenements, tastes, and tales tour began near city hall in lower manhattan where we learned about the history of dutch discovering and settling present day new york city, which was formerly known as new amsterdam.we then continued by exploring the surrounding neighborhoods learning about the history and changes that the city underwent from the time that the african slaves lived in new york to the time when the early irish settlers moved into the area.next, we walked over to the five points neighborhood, which is known as one of the most notorious neighborhoods in new york's history. we talked about the neighborhood’s sketchy history before making our way over to chinatown, where we visited a small local chinese dumpling restaurant.