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New York City History is a senior elective taught by Mr. Sandler offered in the springtime. We travel all the way back to the history of New Amsterdam and into present day and future NYC. We take on the city block by block, discover some of the best and worse mayors and see how New York came to be what it is today. 

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The course offers various trips, six in total. These include walking tours of the Lower East Side, Downtown Financial District and the 9/11 Museum, Harlem, Queens (Flushing + Jackson Heights), Greenwood Cemetery, City Hall Station and Historic Dumbo. Led by either Mr. Sandler or an expert on the neighborhood, students learn hands on about New York and see the same streets they walk on in a whole different way. 

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Students will also create a walking tour of a neighborhood in NYC by the end of the year, putting all their knowledge to the test.

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"You think you know this city. You think because you’ve spent the last 18 years walking down 5th Ave, the last seven learning how to commute daily on the subway, the last four years walking down Chambers Street that you can call yourself a New Yorker. You then step into Mr. Sandler’s NYC History lesson and you learn that you don’t know what a New Yorker is. You then want to step into more and more of those lectures and try to understand how the biggest city in your life is going to appear so much bigger."

                                    -Justin Pacquing Pd. 9

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