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

• See tenement life as it was
• Enjoy the “best pickles in the world?”
• Learn about immigration
• “Where Harry Met Sally” re-enactment
• Experience an ethnic  eater’s delight
• Shop ‘til you drop
• “Cantors’ Carnegie Hall”
• View Hassidic Life/ “Mikvah” - an unusual tradition
• Yiddish terms in society

Learn about immigrant life of the Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews and Hispanics; bath houses; where Trotsky and Castro planned the spread of Communism; brothels and “the el”; “Harry Met Sally” scene; ethnic foods; La Guardia; Boss Tweed; radical labor movements; music history from the Gershwins to the Metropolitan Opera; why Houston street?

Visit the “Cantors Carnegie Hall”; the Tenement Living History Museum; New York’s first library for the common man; scenes of Hassidic life; Alphabet City; slave galleries and the underground railroad; fabulous churches and synagogues

Follow the most densely populated city’s growth and how its personalities have shaped our country and the world. All this will be discussed in detail through anecdotes and a teacher’s perspective.