Central Park
Visit the nation's first modern urban park designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. Among the places we will view will be the Dakota, Strawberry Fields where John Lennon is commemorated, Bethesda Fountain, Cleopatra's Needle, the Armory, the Children's Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Meeting Place: TBA
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The Good Life at Union Square: Theodore Roosevelt's Neighborhood
Visit Teddie's (his nickname) childhood home as well as the neighborhood where he grew, then New York's most up?scale neighborhood. Union Square derives its name from the coming together of Broadway and Fourth Avenue. It was site of many city parades, celebrations, and protests from the Civil War to the Great Depression.
Meeting Place: In front of Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace at 28 East 20th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South
This tour is offered as a public and private tour.
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Gramercy Park: New York's First Planned Neighborhood
This is one of the oldest neighborhoods that was a departure from the grid iron path of development that characterized the rest of Manhattan. We will visit sites associated with Samuel Tilden and John Wilkes Boothe. This neighborhood is also explored as part of our Jack Finney Time and Again tours. Some noticeable residents of Gramercy Park Young JFK played in the park.
Meeting Place: In front of Players Club at 16 Gramercy Park South between Park Avenue South and Irving Place
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Hidden Marvels of Stuyvesant Square
Discover one of the hidden treasures of New York as one of New York City's earliest park, the first medical school to train women, and places of healing, the home of Dvorak, and a spiritual dimension.
Meeting Place: Outside In front of the St. Mark's in the Bowery Church at the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street., 156 Second Avenue at the corner of Tenth Street and Second Avenue
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Wonders of Washington Square Park and Its Neighbors
Discover how the park and the neighborhood has changed over the years from tobacco plantation to Bohemia, drug mart, counter?culture, ivy tower and upscale neighborhood.
Meeting Place: In front of Washington Square Arch where Fifth Avenue begins, the cross street is Washington Square North
This tour is offered as a public and private tour.
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Spring Time, Summer Time, Autumn Time, and Winter Time
Greet the arrival of spring by seeing some of the places associated with artists, writers, musicians, ghosts, social activists, bohemians, and just plain rich folk.
Meeting Place: In front of Washington Square Arch where Fifth Avenue begins, the cross street is Washington Square North.
This tour is offered as a public and private tour.
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