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Bike Ride: Mystery, History, Murder, and Money Tour or the Lower Manhattan Historic Ride

3:56 PM EDT on August 12, 2007

Visit glamorous and notorious Lower Manhattan's most famous spots in history, infamy and unparalleled opulence, including:

    • World's biggest gold vault
    • New York's legendary Five Points (scene of Scorcese's movie Gangs of New York)
    • USA's birthplace
    • Site of Capt. Kidd's house
    • Site of Herman Melville's house
    • Wall St. bomb site where 36 died
    • Where Abe Lincoln's body lay in state
    • Where President-to-be George Washington docked
    • . . . And much, much more
Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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