Discover the Downtown streets that evoke the memory of generations of female radicals, punks, talented writers and singers who called the East Village their home.
Emma Goldman, outspoken anarchist, Debby Harry and Patti Smith punk Queens, labor activists Pauline Newman, Clara Lemlich and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, First Lady and human rights advocate Eleanor Rooseveltโฆ the area teems with fascinating personalities and deeds. Join Kathleen Hulser for a rollicking ramble through famed neighborhoods on the Lower East Side.
Start: The former residence of Emma Goldman 208 East 13th Street, New York 10003 End point: corner of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street
Photo: Emma Goldman's mug shot, taken when she was wrongly implicated in the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901. Courtesy of the Emma Goldman Papers.
