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Living the Immigrant Experience in New
York
DATE: Monday, March 23, 2009
COST: $69 per person
$2 fuel surcharge additional
DEPART: Mamaroneck 9:15 a.m.; Yonkers 10:00 a.m.
RETURN: Yonkers 4:30 p.m.; Mamaroneck 5:00 p.m.
Includes transportation, lunch, guide, escort, tax and gratuities;
Optional Insurance $13.90
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Journey to
the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and visit the apartments of the
German-Jewish Gumpertz family in the 1870s and the Sicilian-
Catholic Baldizzi family in the 1930s, to learn about the networks
of support that were available to them during hard times and discuss
the development of social welfare in the US
- Enjoy free
time for lunch and shopping in the Essex Street Market, a
neighborhood mainstay since 1939, and home to two butchers, a
fishmonger, bakeries and well-stocked fruit and vegetable stands
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