Save the Village Tours

Our Stonewall tour is this exhibit come to life!

Tours are suspended because of the pandemic. But it does give us an opportunity to clean up the website (http://www.savethevillagetours.com/), pay some attention to the FB page here and prepare for a hopefully robust season to come! We've also updated the Bob Dylan, The Stonewall Inn and Gay Greenwich Village and the East Village, Manhattan tours. But even the un-updated tours are hard to beat. ... Had any tours been out this week, everything is in bloom and Mother Nature is at her best. We all missed this scene in the park. Too bad we all can't go out and enjoy it. Soon enough! You can go online and book a tour for later in the summer though. Bob Dylan fans The Bob Dylan Fan Club Bob Dylan - ISIS Magazine Bob Dylan, We'd like to thank you..... BOB DYLAN ROOM "May You Stay Forever Young" Bob Dylan - No Direction Home Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Fillmore East NYC The Beat Generation Beat Writing Jack Kerouac Travel Community Fodor's Travel Frommer's Travel Guides Let's Go Travel Michelin Guide Lonely Planet Lonely Planet Travelers group

Some colorful and inventive new street signs spotted on several of the tour routes this week....

We’re bringing #PRIDE Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah to city streets, thanks to LinkNYC. #PridePower is going on now. https://bit.ly/2WexOuq

The Stonewall tours this month offer a special treat - 13 giant McPride photos in the NYU Skirball windows. And all kinds of flags and flowers and decoration in Christopher Park.

Opens June 6! Pair it with a tour!

The Museum of the City of New York is happy to accept contributions so you, too, can be a champion of the big McPride exhibit! https://mailchi.mp/mcny/pride1-435941?e=98a355e79b

Proud and honored to see this morning the installation of a display of Fred W. McDarrah's iconic LGBT photos being put up in the windows of NYU Skirball alongsi...de Washington Square Park. The pics are up thru at least the end of June - Gay Pride Month. Check it out. And don't forget the book party tonight at The Stonewall Inn, 6 to 8 pm, for "Pride," (OR Books) the new volume that these photos are drawn from. See more

This Tuesday! Come one, come all to "Where Pride Began" - the world famous The Stonewall Inn for the book release party of "Pride - Photographs After Stonewall." Pre-order a copy here (https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Photographs-Stone//1949017117) or buy one at the event! ... See you Tuesday!! https://thestonewallinnnyc.com//58e639vnv2d9er1maugpo7tig9

50 years ago today, April 29, 1969, Greenwich Village was designated as the city's second Historic District (first was Brooklyn Heights). Fred W. McDarrah loved..., appreciated, and was worried about the future of the Village. He was not alone, as evidenced by his famous May 16, 1960 "Save The Village - Wake Up Mr. Mayor" photo. Let us all tip our hat today to some folks who have worked to, well, save the Village: everyone past and present at the Village Preservation - Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation and their heirs, ranging from Jane Jacobs to Ruth Wittenberg to Shirley Hayes and the "stoller moms" who beat down Robert Moses to save Washington Square Park. Carry on. See more

Mark your calendars!

Stonewall/Gay Greenwich Village tours are booking up fast. This June is of course Stonewall 50/World Pride in NYC. Book your tour today, and pre-order a copy of the landmark book that features many of the places the tour goes to! https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Photographs-Stone//1949017117