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Modesto Flako Jimenez: ¡Harken!

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023 (also on OCTOBER 6)
12:00, 2:00 & 4:00 PM

Soissons Landing, Governors Island, Manhattan

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Having memorably done a piece where drove people around Bushwick in a cab while chatting about the neighborhood’s socioeconomic history, Modesto Flako Jimenez will now drive people around Governors Island in a golf cart while chatting about Juan “Jan” Rodriguez, a free Black or Mulatto (like Jimenez, Dominican) who, trading fur for a Dutch White in 1609, is the first documented non-Indigenous person to have lived in Manattan — arguably, it is believed, on Governors Island.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island, but let’s go to the almost ridiculously scenic and pleasant — and, oddly, good — Island Oyster one last time.