Big Onion Tours presents: The Private and Public Worlds of Union Square

In the surefooted guidance of Big Onion Tours, visitors are invited to explore the history and mythology of Union Square. Constructed as a residential district in the decades before the American Civil War, both were designed after London’s fashionable “garden squares”. This walk traces how Union Square grew into a communal urban gathering space, a site of commerce, entertainment, and public demonstrations. Stops could include: the Players Club, Block Beautiful, and the former Tammany Hall headquarters, along with sites associated with the Civil War Draft Riots, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Peter Cooper, and Andy Warhol.