Name: Central Park: Scandal & Vice Walking Tour
Start: 2025-12-20T11:00:00-05:00
Location: Central Park

Central Park

Final Openings for the Season
Central Park isn’t all calm paths and open lawns. It’s also home to a fascinating hidden <a href="https://www.purefindernewyork.com/central-park-scandal-vice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">history</a>. This walking tour reveals the scandals, controversies, and lost communities that shaped the park from the inside out. Hear how fame, reform, and ambition left their mark on New York’s most famous green space, and discover stories most visitors miss.

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Astoria-Long Island City

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Central Park: Scandal & Vice Walking Tour

Final Openings for the Season
Central Park isn’t all calm paths and open lawns. It’s also home to a fascinating hidden history....

Q.E.D.

Paid Protest is a comedy show that raises money for the Democratic Socialists and Other left leaning causes. Since 2017 we’ve had an awesome monthly show in Brooklyn and we decided to expand the show to Queens at QED. This month we are raising money for the DSA Afrosocialist Caucus.

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Paid Protest: Comedy Fundraiser

Paid Protest is a comedy show that raises money for the Democratic Socialists and Other left leaning causes. Since 2017 we’ve...

Paid Protest a bimonthly fundraiser for the NYCDSA and other left leaning causes. This month, at QED in Astoria we have a stacked lineup of leftist comics helping us raise money for the The AfroSocialist Caucus. As always the show is hosted by Sharif Hasan and FreddyG (A Palestinian and an AntiZionist Jew) The show is Thursday 12/18 at 9:15 and costs $15. More info @PaidProtestComedy <a href="https://qedastoria.com/products/paid-protest?event=2025-12-18T21:00:00" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://qedastoria.com/products/paid-protest?event=2025-12-18T21:00:00</a>

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Whitehall Terminal

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Final Date
New York City’s past is filled with stories that reveal how people lived with death long before modern medicine and reform. This extended <a href="https://www.purefindernewyork.com/death-in-new-york" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">walking tour</a> examines the city’s history of burial grounds, epidemics, and public executions across Lower Manhattan. Participants visit sites in Battery Park, the Financial District, Tribeca, the Civic Center, and Chinatown to learn how disease, faith, and policy shaped the city’s development. From colonial churchyards to early cemeteries and prison sites, the tour offers a detailed look at how New York’s attitudes toward mortality helped define its growth. 
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Final Date
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Death in New York: Extended Daylight Tour (Lower Manhattan)

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New York City’s history wasn’t written by rule followers. This guided <a href="https://www.purefindernewyork.com/the-outlaws-who-built-nyc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">walking tour</a> explores the streets and stories shaped by the outlaws, hustlers, and political schemers who built the city’s foundations. Learn how ambition, corruption, and rebellion fueled the growth of New York, from waterfront pirates and crooked politicians to daring whistleblowers and underground visionaries. It’s a side of city history that reveals how progress often began in the shadows.

Local Event: The Outlaws Who Built NYC: Financial District Tour

The Outlaws Who Built NYC: Financial District Tour

Final Openings for the Season 
New York City’s history wasn’t written by rule followers. This guided walking tour explores the...

54 Below

Celebrate the season with Swinging in the Holidays! It’s a hip, sophisticated spin on holiday classics, drawing from Broadway showstoppers, jazz icons, Old Hollywood charm, and legends like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat “King” Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald. Led by Champian Fulton, acclaimed musicians from Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC’s Birdland, and NBC’s “The Voice” come together for an unforgettable afternoon of swinging winter cheer. Bring the family for a festive brunch that’s sure to have you swinging straight into the season.

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Swinging In The Holidays

Celebrate the season with Swinging in the Holidays! It’s a hip, sophisticated spin on holiday classics, drawing from Broadway...

Celebrate the season with Swinging in the Holidays! It’s a hip, sophisticated spin on holiday classics, drawing from Broadway showstoppers, jazz icons, Old Hollywood charm, and legends like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat “King” Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald. Led by Champian Fulton, acclaimed musicians from Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC’s Birdland, and NBC’s “The Voice” come together for an unforgettable afternoon of swinging winter cheer. Bring the family for a festive brunch that’s sure to have you swinging straight into the season.

Outside 94 Corner Cafe, 2518 Broadway, New York, NY, 10025

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Discover the New York story behind physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the rise of modern science. This walking tour <a href="https://www.purefindernewyork.com/oppenheimer-in-new-york" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">explores</a> the Upper West Side locations tied to Oppenheimer’s early life, education, and professional network. Participants learn how the city’s universities, political movements, and cultural institutions shaped both his career and the scientific community of the 1930s and 1940s. The tour offers a detailed look at how New York’s intellectual atmosphere helped forge ideas that would define an era.

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Oppenheimer in New York: Upper West Side...

Final Date
Discover the New York story behind physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the rise of modern science. This walking tour...

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