200+ Free NYC Walking Tours for Jane’s Walk Weekend

In 2017, Jane’s Walks can introduce you to a 1906 movie studio that made Brooklyn the brief capital of silent film, a seedy Manhattan hotel where Woody Guthrie wrote This Land Is Your Land, a vast glacial forest hiding in Queens, a Bronx street modeled on the Champs-Élysées, a Himalayan architectural enclave in Staten Island, and more.

All of the MAS-sponsored walks combine the simple act of exploring neighborhoods with personal observations, local history, and civic engagement. A typical walk is 90 minutes and is free and open to the public.

The full list of tours is available online at https://www.mas.org/janeswalknyc, including:

• Midwood, before Hollywood: A film industry grew in Brooklyn
• Justice and gentrification: Hear from South Bronx advocates on the future of Mott Haven
• Get a sneak peek of the controversial new BQXlight rail line
• Canvas beneath our feet—Learn about the overlooked art of manhole covers
• When downtown was still hip: Retrace jazz historyon the Lower East Side
• Raids & raves: Visit “Gay Bars that Are Gone,”but not forgotten
• The Man and the Musical: Explore the New York of Hamilton—and Hamilton
• See Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses share a “Midnight Moment”on the billboards of Times Square
• To Hellgate and Back Again: Walk the East River’s Northern Bridges and raise a pilsner in Astoria
• This Land Is Your Landwas written on the New York Island: Walk through Woody Guthrie’s NYC
• From garbage heap to bucolic meadow: A two-mile behind-the-scenes walk through the future Fresh Kills Park
• Gather at sunset to photograph a changing Long Island City
• Grab a compass and gaze into the Wild West, as seen from Manhattan
• When Olmsted shaped a glacial forest: Hike through the vast, little-visited Forest Park of Queens
• Billionaire’s Row, Brooklyn: Look into the future skyline of Flatbush & Atlantic
• Don your 19^thcentury garb and step back in time with an 1870 walking tour through Brooklyn
• See the Tibetan art and Himalayan architecture(no, really) of Staten Island’s Lighthouse Hill