Radical Walking Tours of New York City, Third Edition

Too often, tours of New York City are paeans to power—extolling the fabled New York skyline and the robber barrons whose wealth built it up, praising the marvels of a city built largely on finance.     

But New York has also, since its founding, been a city of struggle, a place where workers lived, created wealth, and spun out the rich cultural tapestry that has put the small island of Manhattan at the very center of the world's imagination. It is a city of proletarian uprising, of abol…