Where She Stood: Unsung Stories of Women’s History in New York

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Learn the impact of women on New York City on a walking tour designed by The Times’s gender editor. You’ll visit spots where radical and trailblazing women made history, from a theater that launched the careers of women playwrights to one of the last remaining lesbian bars in Manhattan. Use code NYTJDAYSUB for 15% off.

• • Tour snapshot

    Learn the impact of women in New York City on this three-hour walking tour. Developed by Times Journeys and The New York Times’s gender editor, the tour shows where activists, artists, chefs and the inventor of beer, all women, left their marks.

  • Highlights

    • Learn why there are so few statues of real women in New York City, and what is being done about it
    • Visit one of the last lesbian bars in New York and hear how it protected women who frequented it
    • Taste a frozen treat at a female-owned Latinx cafe
    • Guided by the expertise of The New York Times and Urban Adventures, get insight into the role of women in America’s foremost city

    New York Times Exclusives

    • Behind-the-Scenes Access: Take a special tour of an experimental theater that contributed to the rise of provocative New York theater in the 1960s and gave a platform to feminist theater groups.
    • Hands-on Element: Create a postcard filled with women’s empowerment slogans. Keep it as a reminder of how far women have come and the work that is still to be done.
    • Local Interactions: Meet the staff at Bluestockings, a radical feminist bookstore on the Lower East Side, and learn the history of zines.

Language: English

Inclusions: Local English-speaking guide, a beer or nonalcoholic drink, and a light snack.

Exclusions: Additional food and drinks, souvenirs and personal shopping, tips/gratuities for your guide.

• Schedule details

  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Meeting point:Inside the Bluestockings Bookstore, Cafe & Activist Center. 172 Allen St, New York, NY 10002. Your guide will be holding an Urban Adventures and New York Times Journeys sign.

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  • Starting time: 2.00 PM
  • Ending point:Cubbyhole, 281 W 12th St, New York, NY 10014.