New York’s Garden of Eden discusses the historical aspects of New York City’s challenge of urbanization.

Not only is Greenwich Village “haunted”, but it is also the cradle of music, literature, and the arts, not to mention murder and mayhem! 

Trace the immigration of eastern Europeans and their trials and impact on the growth of New York City.

How the most affluent village of New York became a ghetto and how it’s regentrafication is affecting this neighborhood designed originally to look like Paris, France.

Trace the origins of Bohemian life, early German settlement and history as it has evolved to a melting pot neighborhood.

The rich movement from the Astors to the Vanderbilts culture and society.

Trace the impact of this historic area from the greatest newspaper founders to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge to the development of seaport commerce.

Visit St. Paul’s Chapel, the African Burial Ground, the World Trade Center site, the Irish Famine Exhibit and New York’s great waterfront.

Learn about P.T. Barnum, the first woman to run for President, the first “department” store, Boss Tweed’s great embezzlement,  “the Cathedral of Commerce”, New York’s first attempted subway, and the islands of New York.

Discover Nathan Hale, George Washington, Horace Greeley, and other characters that have shaped the development of the City, the country and the World.

Learn cast iron architecture and how it effected the present day “left bank of New York.”  Also trace the Italian immigration in New York and its effects on the city.

Visit the Upper West Side, home of Grant's Tomb, Columbia University and the Cathedral of St. John The Divine.