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APA/GALIP SPONSORED TOUR:THE CREATION OF A NEIGHBHORHOOD WITH THE HELP FROM ADULT USES Open to all APA Members The commonly held belief is that the adult use industry destroys neighborhoods. This tour will discuss how sex clubs, bars, etc. along with an economic downturn and urban flight, created a gay neighborhood in the West Village even when the zoning prohibited residential uses in much of the area. Discussions will include former officials from the Department of City Planning and the Division of Real Property from the 1970’s. We will discuss how the Zoning and Landmarks laws and Building and Fire Codes were used to shut down several gay "hot spots". The route will follow the Tentative Itinerary listed Below on this page. This Tour is sponsored by "Gays and Lesbians in Planning" and the APA. The Gays & Lesbians in Planning (GALIP) Division of APA is a forum for the exchange of ideas and information of interest to gays, lesbians, and friends in the planning profession. GALIP addresses planning topics and issues that relate to the gay and lesbian community by providing a forum for exchanging ideas and information. The division provides a professional network for planners who are division members and a mechanism that allows friends of the division and the gay and lesbian community to support GALIP's mission. This is the tenth anniversary since GALIP's first walking tour after the World Trade Center tour in 2002. CM CREDIT IS PENDING. Sunday, October 2, 2011 starting at 1 pm - 2:30 pm. Meet at Sheridan Square. Richard Landman, AICP, Attorney Emeritus, Licensed Sightseeing Tour Guide, has 3 Masters Degrees and a JD from New York Law School. He was the Director of Real Estate Development, (in-house land use attorney) at NYU for almost 20 years and an adjunct professor of Land Use Law at NYU’s Wagner School for 7 years. Currently he teaches a Land Use Law class at New York Law School and gives Walking Tours on various topics. He also volunteers at Housing Court once a week and is a court appointed guardian ad litem for the elderly with housing issues. He was the chair of Community Board#1- Manhattan’s Landmark Committee, Tribeca Committee and Planning and Infrastructure Committee over the years. Earlier in his career he was the Executive Director of Real Estate Development for the City of New York’s Division of Real Property. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE APA PAGE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION LECTURE THEMES: History of the Stonewall Rebellion (first hand account.) History of the Segal Statue (first hand account.) History of the area's loss of manufacturing uses and the influx of the Gay Community to the area. History of the Waterfront uses. Ups and Down of the LGBT Community in Greenwich Village. Creation of Housing for People with AIDS (Bailey House). Zoning Issues: Adult Use Zoning Studies and Regulations The Closing of Adult Use establishments Case Study of how Landmarks and the Building Code could be used to close down an adult use establishment that was near an elementary school and across from a Church for decades.   2011 Tour of GALIP on the APA Tour |
GAY PRIDEWEST VILLAGE TOUR  Visit the long gone haunts of the West Village's gay places from the personal perspective of the tour guide. The tour is guided with first hand stories about the early days of Gay Liberation as well as how the West Village residential neighborhood was formed. (Similar to the pattern for Chelsea.) In a way, this tour shows how sexual liberation helped to create neighborhoods; contrary to the usual notion that sex places destroyed neighborhoods. West Village Tour may include: The Stonewall, The Monster, The VD Clinic and Tiffany Diner, Bailey House, The LGBT Center, The Stud, The Anvil, The Mineshaft, The Christopher Street Bookstore, Uncle Charlies, The Piers, etc. The East Village Tour is also possible which could include: The Saint, The St. Marks and Club Bathhouses, Boy Bar, etc. |
 The tour will start in front of where the Stonewall Riots of 1969 began in Christopher Street Park at 7th Avenue. Here is a photo of what it looked like in 1969. |
 Photo of one of scenes over the last weekend in June 1969 at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street. |
 This is the corner billboard which used to demand Gay Rights Now! |
This is a photo back from the days of the battle for Gay Rights in New York City. |
 The Stonewall Bar (and Nail Shop which was part of the bar back then). |
 You will hear the discussion of how these statues came to be and how they came to be placed in this location. You will also hear about the model for one of these statues. His name was David Boyce and he was a friend of the tour guide. |
 The current location of the Monster which used to be a restaurant with belly dancers. |
 Corner where the Gay Independent Democrats (GID and now GLID) had tables to register people to vote. |
 Location of the former VD Clinic. |
 Hear the story of how the Bailey House (Residences for People with AIDS)real estate deal came to be. |
 Location of the Tiffany Diner, which used to be at this corner in the 1970's until a few years ago. It was the late night hang out for everyone. |
 The main pier during the 1970's was not where it is today. The remant of the former piers a bit further south, was the main crusing pier until the Hudson River Park renovated the area. The S.S. John Bowne ship was moored to this pier at the time. The ship was part of the Food and Maritime High School on West 13th Street which would become the LGBT Community Center in the 1980's. |
 Even though the Catholic Church was not gay friendly, this Church was friendly during the days of the AIDS epidemic. |
 This is the site of the International Stud which Harvey Fierstein made famous in his Torch Song Trilogy. |
 This is the home of the author and director of the movie Outrageous with Craig Russel. It was a Canadian film about a drag queen in the 1970's. It was the home of Bruce Calnan and Dick Brennen. |
 This is the site of where the Village Voice (when it was the paper of record for young and outsider people) was located. It then was a burger place for a few years when the Village Voice moved to the East Village. |
 Weehawken Street was so overpopulated with drinkers from the West Side Highway bars (Ramrod, Sneakers, Badlands, etc.) that many people used to relieve themselves in Weehawken Street up against the wall of these buildings. |
 The most hip retail store at the time was All American Boy and this was the location. You could get your 501 jeans here as well as your handkerchef of any color. |
 This is what the Anvil looked like then. You will hear many stories about what went on there. |
 This is the location of the Anvil today. |
| ALL TOURS: | NEW AMSTERDAM TOURS | ZONING ORIGINS: REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN LOWER MANHATTAN | GREENWICH VILLAGE - URBAN RENEWAL HISTORY | 3 TRIBECA TOURS |
APA TOURS |
WTC TOUR | GERMAN TOUR |
"NEW AMSTERDAM" TOUR
FOR DETAILED INFORMATION ON YOUR OWN "NEW AMSTERDAM TOUR" CLICK HERE Every year in November is "Dutch Days" in New York City with multiple events and exhibits held throughout the five boroughs. An annual highlight is the tour of “New Amsterdam” put together by Rick Landman, Esq., AICP, a longtime member of the NY Metro Chapter. Landman gave a tour to relate how early Dutch roots had an impact on New York City's physical form as well as its taxation procedures, zoning regulations and religious freedoms. The tour, which not only included the usual stop to the foundations of the old Dutch City Hall but included a walk around the borders of old New Amsterdam, seeing the Dutch memorials (most of which are on land-fill that didn't exist back then) and discussion of Dutch history and its impacts. Landman noted that the narrow tax lots and the subsequent sky-blocking towers were a direct result from our Dutch origins... Tour starts in front of the Customs House at Bowling Green in front of the eastern most statue and winds it way through Battery Park and up to Wall Street.  Please Click Here to Email for Reservations and please place "New Amsterdam Tour" in the Subject Box.
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THE ORIGINS OF ZONING IN AMERICA: This tour focuses on the area near the World Trade Center and includes a walking lecture of how America's Zoning started Lower Manhattan because of the bulk issues created at the Equitable Building in 1916 and winds its way past several of the World's Tallest Buildings up to City Hall Park and ends on the Brooklyn Bridge looking back at the eastside of Manhattan. Once steel construction and elevators turned the real estate market upside down, and each developer tried to build the world's tallest building, New York City was forced to try regulating bulk and use. The Supreme Court upheld NYC's zoning regulations in the 1926 case of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Corp. This tour gives the history while passing the actual locations. It also includes a city park created by the transfer of development rights and discusses several urban renewal projects in the area. Depending on time and interest, we can also include a short discussion of the World Trade Center as we pass by. |
TRIBECA TOURS:  Walk through the past 30 years of changes in what is now called Tribeca. NOSTALGIC TRIBECA WEST TRIBECA WEST New York Law School Tours: Each year I present several tours for New York Law School including a tour of TRIBECA AND THE COURT HOUSES - Introduction to all the Legal Resources in the area. 
and a tour for the Reunion for the Alumni
and a lectures/tours for the honor students, such as Land Use Issues in Tribeca West and Trump Condo-Hotel Litigation
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SOUTH STREET SEAPORT TOUR:
This area was created with the aid of Landmarking and Historic Districts and urban renewal plans, and is now under consideration for a new proposed development. |
THE JEWS OF NEW AMSTERDAM/LOWER EAST SIDE:
 Focusing on the early Jewish roots of New Amsterdam and New York City, including several Jewish cemeteries. The tour will discuss the treatment and contributions of the colonies' and America's earliest Jewish settlers, including both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews who came to the "New World" in the 1600's. The life of Asser Levy and the 23 Jews who came from Recife will be discussed. Lower Manhattan contains several memorials and actual locations (buildings now long gone) and remnants of several cemeteries at Chatham Square, West 11th and West 22nd Streets. In addition, we can extend the tour (especially if this is a bus tour) to go to the Lower East Side and see the Tenement Museum as well as several eateries such as Katz's Delicatessen and Russ & Daughters. 
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 Walking Tours are personalized to meet your special interests, given in a way that only a Native New Yorker can give. A week's notice is appreciated if research is required for the personalized tour. Shorter notice is acceptable for standard walks.
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