Lost City walking tours
Lost City will host its first-ever walking tour of Carroll Gardens on Sunday, November 22. That tour filled up so quickly that a second date has been announced for Sunday, December 6. If you’re interested in joining the tour, please make a reservation by emailing lostcitybrooks@gmail.com. The cost is $20.
Lost City: I’m going to try to keep these tours the walking, talking equivalent of the blog. It will not be the history you find in books. Nothing about the Battle of Brooklyn or Peter Stuyvesant. Historians have done that to death and much better, too, than I could. The tour will cover hidden history, maybe some stuff you’ve heard of somewhere, but hopefully a lot of things you’ve never heard of before or even suspected. It will by hyper-local, idiosyncratic, with a light patina of Big Picture, and I will try to include as much living history as I can (though that choice commodity becomes harder and harder to come by as the years progress).
The tour will last roughly 90 minutes. (I don’t think people really want to be on their feet much longer than that.) The cost will be $20. Yours truly, Brooks, will be the host. And the meeting place will by the southwest corner of Henry and Sackett Streets, in front of Naidre’s cafe. (The best way to get there, if you don’t live in the area, is to take the F train to the Carroll Street stop. Walk north on Smith to Sackett, turn left, and walk three blocks to Henry.)
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: November 12th, 2009 at 10:39 am by Diana Rosenthal under Carroll Gardens, Events.
Tags:brooklyn walking tours, Lost City, walking tour
Comments: 1
Comment from Janice Pullicino
Time: November 29, 2009, 10:02 pm
Hi, I am the owner of Naidre’s Cafe. I wondered if you knew that Naidre’s was the original location of the Cammerari Bakery, of Moonstruck fame?
The old coal ovens and cast iron bakery equipment is are still there, and
on some days, you can still hear Nicholas Cage ranting in the basement…
I’d like to offer your tour participants a 20% discount for any coffee, tea or
snacks as you embark on your journey! If you’d like, just get me a list prior to meeting and I’ll let my staff know who you are.
Kindly,
Janice Pullicino
naidre’s cafe
jpullicino@aol.com