About this Event
Hold 1660’s New Amsterdam in the palm of your hand. Join us in person for a walking tour thru lower Manhattan using TimeLens new interactive app!
What if you could walk through Lower Manhattan today and watch the streets, houses, gardens, waterways, and people of 1660 New Amsterdam appear around you?
TimeLens is a new immersive phone app, developed in partnership with the New Amsterdam History Center - Mapping Early New York team, that brings the past into the present through 360° reconstructions in the palm of your hand.
TimeSpots in lower Manhattan, with narrations by author Russell Shorto, and evocative soundscapes reveal Fort Amsterdam, the Wall and City Hall, the Kierstede House and its Indian Trading Area, the House of the Enslaved Workers, and other long-lost landmarks—drawing you into the commerce, architecture, and layered histories of the 17th-century city, and the people who lived there.
TimeLens-New Amsterdam is an invitation to walk the earliest streets of Manhattan and become a New Amsterdammer yourself. Snap a selfie in your favorite TimeSpot and send it to your friends!
Join us on Thursday, October 22 at 11:00 AM on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange for a walking tour of the TimeSpots that finishes at the historic Fraunces Tavern.
Event venue & nearby stays
New York Stock Exchange, 11 Wall Street, New York, United States
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