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Into America: Featuring American Culture from around the World A Celebration of Diversity 3 Days / 2 Nights Day 1 - , & Dine in approximately 12 million steerage and third class steamship Enjoy lunch included and tour of the Society and museum. Enjoy passengers who entered the through the port of New seasoned dishes that reflect elements of the diverse cultures of Asia York were legally and medically inspected at . Reopened followed by a docent led tour of the exhibition. Depart on driving tour on September 10, 1990 after a massive restoration, the Main Building and drive through Harlem. In the neighborhood's golden age in the on Ellis Island is now a museum dedicated to the history of 1920s and 30s, Harlem was the heart of black culture in the United immigration and the important role this island claimed during the States. But hard economic times hit Harlem during the Depression mass migration of humanity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. and continued through the 1980s. With rampant poverty, high Today, over 40 percent of America's population can trace their unemployment and high crime rates; Harlem was a tough place ancestry through Ellis Island. Enjoy a universal audio tour will be to live. Redevelopment in the 1980s revived interest in the included with your ferry ride. On Liberty Island, the 30 minute audio neighborhood. As the Manhattan real estate market boomed, the tour explores the history of the and its importance abandoned buildings in Harlem were replaced with new housing and as a symbol of freedom and opportunity around the world. On Ellis office buildings. Real estate investors snatched up beautiful old Island, the 45 minute audio tour immerses visitors in the immigrant that had fallen into disrepair and began restoring them experience through narration and first-hand accounts, inviting them to their former glory. Soon Bill Clinton and moved in, and to vividly relive the immigrant experiences as if they were the “new Harlem’s second renaissance became official. Drive by the Cotton arrival.” Located in Harbor, the Statue of Liberty was a gift Club. The Cotton Club was a night club located first in of international friendship from the people of France to the people of the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from the United States and is one of the most universal symbols of political 1923 to 1935 and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during October 28, 1886 and was designated a National Monument on America's Prohibition Era and was a whites-only establishment even October 15, 1924. Access to Crown of the Statue of Liberty NOT though it featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the included. Visit Ellis Island: Registry Room: The historic Great Hall, era, including musicians , Fletcher Henderson, Duke once filled with new arrivals waiting to be inspected and registered by Ellington, , Chick Webb, , Count Immigration officers, now contains historic benches and reproduction Basie, Fats Waller, , vocalists , Ethel Waters, inspector desks. Visitors can re-live the experience of 12 million , Aida Ward, Avon Long, the Dandridge Sisters, the Will people processed through this cavernous space. Treasures from Vodery Choir, The Mills Brothers, Nina Mae McKinney, , Home: Cherished personal objects, photographs and papers brought Lena Horne, and dancers , The , from the homeland are on display. American Family Immigration Charles 'Honi' Coles, Leonard Reed, Stepin Fetchit, the Berry Brothers, History Center: Opened on April 17, 2001, this new family history The Four Step Brothers, Jeni Le Gon and Earl Snakehips Tucker. research facility contains the ships' passenger records on the over 22 million people who entered through the Port of New York and Ellis Take a tour of the New-York Historical Society (pending availability). Island from 1892-1924, the peak years of immigrant processing at This docent-led tour is completely unscripted so that the group can Ellis Island. Visitors will be able to access 11 fields of digitized set the pace and let their guide show them what matters most to information, as well as obtain reproductions of original ship manifests them. From paints to historical artifacts – there is a little bit of and photos of ships of passage. American Immigrant Wall of Honor: everything to see at this museum! Enjoy dinner included at an A popular exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum is the upscale Manhattan fine dining establishment. It was Manhattan’s American Immigrant Wall of Honor. The Wall of Honor is located original fine dining Chinese restaurant. This upscale establishment outdoors, just outside the "Peopling of America" exhibit. The Wall takes pride in creating visually striking and mouth-watering gourmet honors America’s immigrants regardless of when they immigrated or fare that is a world apart from the rest. With regional dishes from all through which port they entered. The Wall is currently inscribed with of China, Shun and offers a refreshing and unconventional twist from over 600,000 names. If you would like to add a name to the Wall of the usual Oriental fare. Check into area hotel. Baggage handling Honor, support the continuing work of the Statue of Liberty Ellis included. Island Foundation, Inc. Documentary Film: "Island of Hope, Island of Fears" is an award winning 30-minute documentary film that is shown Day 2 - Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, SoHo & More at regularly scheduled times in two theaters. Each theater seats 140 Enjoy breakfast included at the hotel and depart. Arrive at Battery people. Tickets are required and are available free at the Ellis Island Park and check in with Statue Cruises. Take a ferry ride to the information desk. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Between 1892 and 1954, Enjoy lunch on own in one of Chinatown’s unique and authentic restaurants followed by a guided walking tour of SoHo, Chinatown, and Little Italy. This tour will show New York is certainly a melting pot so these cultures co-exist so perfectly and contributes so much to the city. Drive by the African Burial Ground, the oldest and largest known excavated burial ground in North America for both free and enslaved Africans. It protects the historic role slavery played in building New York. Visit the Tenement Museum. Located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, the Tenement Museum is a National Historic Site. The five-story brick tenement building at 97 Orchard was home to an estimated 7,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 1935. The museum, which includes a visitors' center down the block, promotes tolerance and historical perspective on the immigrant experience. Arrive to Little Italy and enjoy your included dinner at an authentic Itailian Restaurant within few minutes from Chinatown. Traditional Italian dishes & desserts in a relaxed, white-tablecloth setting with sidewalk seating. Depart on foot and enjoy time on own walking around Little Italy that welcomes a heavily tourist crowd to its high concentration of souvenir shops and traditional Italian eateries and bakeries. Tenement buildings, once home to the immigrants who settled the area in the late 1800s, line the narrow streets. Return to hotel for early evening. Day 3 - World Trade Center & Museum Tours Start with breakfast at the hotel before checking out and depart. Visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage. A memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust. The building, designed by Roche-Dinkeloo, is topped by a pyramid structure called the Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Enjoy lunch on own at the Westfield World Trade Center while marveling at this amazing feat of architecture. Enjoy New York from above at One World Observatory located on the 102nd floor. Depart and tour the . Founded in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, the Museum was hailed as one of the finest achievements of Americans of Ukrainian descent. The museum seeks to preserve articles of artistic or historic significance to the rich cultural heritage of Ukrainian Americans. Depart for home.

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