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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

BUS TRIP

Tour of Brooklyn & the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC. The cost is $76 per person. DATE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27; LEAVE: 10 a.m. (leave from Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Rd.); RETURN: approximately 8 p.m. Enjoy lunch in one of Brighton Beach’s finest and oldest Russian restaurants. After lunch, enjoy a narrated bus journey through the heart of Brooklyn’s immigrant neighborhoods. Next, we visit Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where we will take a walking tour of the streets surrounding the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which is dedicated to preserving the immigrant heritage of Americans. The cost of the trip includes roundtrip transportation in a luxury coach, tours, lunch, admission to the museum, and some gratuities. Tickets go on sale for Freeport residents in the main lobby on September 1; for nonresidents, on September 8.