The Immigrant Experience: The Lower East Side and Tenement Museum
Cost: $83.00 per person (check/money order made payable to Freeport Memorial Library)
DEPART: 10 a.m. (from the Freeport Recreation Center, 130 E. Merrick Road. You can park your car there.)
RETURN: 7 p.m. (approximately)
Enjoy a family-style lunch in one of Brighton Beach’s finest and oldest Russian eateries, Primorski Restaurant. Then take a narrated bus journey through the heart of Brooklyn, passing several immigrant neighborhoods. On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, there will be a pre-museum walking tour of the surrounding streets, then a tour of the Tenement Museum. The cost of the trip is all-inclusive: roundtrip transportation in a luxury coach, lunch, guided museum tour, and gratuities. Freeport residents may sign up at the Circulation Desk starting March 8; nonresidents, starting March 15.
