Tours
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WHITMAN OVER THE WATER A walking tour focusing on Walt Whitman’s New York includes a trek over the Brooklyn Bridge. Today, 1 p.m., meet at corner of Broadway and Chambers Street, 212-979-8013, $12 general, $10 seniors and students.
SIMPLY DIVINE A tour through the Cathedral of St. John the Divine focuses on its fusion of medieval and modern architectural styles. Saturday, 12:45 p.m., the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave., between 111th and 112th streets, 212-932-7347, $10 general, $8 seniors and children.
ON THE WATERFRONT The Brooklyn Historical Society offers hour-long boat tours of the borough’s “working waterfront” each Saturday this summer. Passengers enjoy views along the East River, to Brooklyn’s Fulton Ferry Landing from the South Street Seaport. Saturdays through August 27, 11 a.m. pickup at South Street Seaport, Fulton and Water streets, 11:05 a.m. pickup at Fulton Ferry Landing, the foot of Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn, 212-742-1969, $20 general, $18 members, $14 children under 12, $12 children of members.
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