Take a Broadway workshop and check out the sights in Lower Manhattan
Learn more about the amazing productions that draw audiences from around the world. All workshops are held in Broadway rehearsal studios and taught by Broadway performers or qualified Teaching Artists. The workshop will provide you with an introduction to Broadway and the creativity and skills that it takes to put on these world class shows.
Tour Lower Manhattan, where industry, immigration, and colonial history converge. As the symbol of Western capitalism, Wall Street's modern traders bristle with cell phones, PDAs, and other modern tech accessories. This area's original traders, however, were Dutch colonialists, who gave the street its name by building a wall here to protect themselves from British settlers. Nearby Trinity Church, once the tallest building in the city, holds the grave of Alexander Hamilton and other Revolutionary luminaries who helped shape the emerging United States, and thousands of immigrants, who shaped the modern country, came in through Battery Park, the immigration entry point for the city until the operation moved to Ellis Island.
Visit the 9/11 Memorial
Visit the National 9/11 Memorial which spans across eight of the sixteen acres at the World Trade Center. The memorial honors the lives and memories of those who were lost on 9/11. The Memorial's twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood.
Take a tour of the Brooklyn Bridge.
You’ve seen it on TV. You’ve heard about it in songs. You‘ve read about it in poems. Follow in the footsteps of Frank Sinatra and Walt Whitman to create your own magic New York moment with a walk across the 6,016-foot Brooklyn Bridge. Learn all about the bridge’s history (it’s one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world) and discover the neighborhoods—past and present—that it united, such as the Fulton Ferry District and Newspaper Row in Manhattan.
