09/05/2026
This week on Saturday Spotlight, we’re reading Bruce Kayton’s RADICAL WALKING TOURS OF NEW YORK CITY!
Too often, tours of New York City are paeans to power—extolling the fabled New York skyline and the robber barrons whose wealth built it up, praising the marvels of a city built largely on finance.
But New York has also, since its founding, been a city of struggle, a place where workers lived, created wealth, and spun out the rich cultural tapestry that has put the small island of Manhattan at the very center of the world’s imagination. It is a city of proletarian uprising, of abolitionist rebellion, of civil rights demonstrations, and radical futures. This is the town of Emma Goldman and Langston Hughes, of Margaret Sanger and John Reed, of demonstrations and shootouts, of community gardens and marches.
RADICAL WALKING TOURS is available now from Seven Stories.