{"id":278619,"date":"2026-06-26T03:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278619\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:23:30","slug":"battle-of-brooklyn-walking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278619\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Brooklyn Walking Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2014 As PART OF THE NATION\u2019S 250th anniversary, the Guides Association of New York City is offering several free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganyc.org\/america250-tour-festival-schedule-saturday-june-27-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">historical walking tours<\/a>. On Saturday, guide Andy McNeil will be leading the two-hour \u201cBattle of Brooklyn Walking Tour: George Washington\u2019s Daring Revolutionary War Retreat,\u201d retracing Washington\u2019s daring overnight escape from Brooklyn in 1776 \u2014 a strategic retreat that helped save the Continental Army.<\/p>\n<p>The tour starts at 11 a.m. at Brooklyn Borough Hall and ends at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The tour is free but <a href=\"https:\/\/ganyc.wildapricot.org\/event-6691039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">requires registration<\/a>, and is limited to 30 guests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS \u2014 As PART OF THE NATION\u2019S 250th anniversary, the Guides Association of New York City is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,6766,99,4619,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-278619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-history","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-events","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}