Tours - Uptown New York
Upper East Side
The wealthiest zip code in America as we look at the mansions, apartments, and monuments of the makers and shakers of New York City. The Frick and Carnegie Mansions are testimonies to a grandiose age when money was no object. This was the former neighborhood of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Private schools, international shops, trendy galleries, and exquisite town houses line the streets.
Meeting Place: TBA
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Columbus Avenue: Commerce and Class on the Upper West Side
Discover how this neighborhood has kept on reinventing itself as the shopping street of the Upper West Side.
Meeting Place: In front of Olivers & Co. at 198 Columbus Avenue
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Welcome to the Neighborhood: Bill Clinton's Harlem
Learn why Bill Clinton like many others has discovered that this is a great neighborhood to live and work in. We will explore the major by-ways of Harlem: 125th Street and Malcolm X (Lenox) Avenue as we walk from the Schomberg Library, the greatest depository of the African-American heritage to view the Apollo Theater and Bill Clinton's office digs.
Meeting Place: 55 W.125th St. In front of Bill Clinton's Office at W.125th St. (the cross street is 5th Ave.)
This tour is offered as a public and private tour.
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Langston Hughes Walk in Harlem
Visit locales associated with one of America's greatest writers as we read his poetry at Harlem locales associated with his life.
Meeting Place: Southwest corner of Malcolm X (Lenox) Avenue and 135th Street across from the Schomburg Library. The cross street is 135th Street
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Literary Haunts of Harlem
Discover the great writers of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen and others as we read their poetry and walk from the Schomberg Library, the greatest depository of the African-American heritage to view the Apollo Theater and Bill Clinton's office digs.
Meeting Place: Southwest Corner of Malcolm X (Lenox) Avenue and 135th Street near the Schomberg Library. The cross street is 135th Street
This tour is offered as a public and private tour.
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Washington Heights
General George Washington erected several forts to fight the British. Fort Tryon Park is the home of the Cloisters, a magnificent collection of Medieval art and architecture. Audubon Terrace is the home of American Numismatic Society and the Hispanic Society of America. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Yeshiva University are located here. The New York Giants, once played at the Polo Grounds Stadium before they moved westward.
Meeting Place: In front of Boricua College at 3755 Broadway. (the cross street is Audubon Terrace)
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Dominican Heritage of Washington Heights
Discover the evolution of this neighborhood from an American Revolutionary battleground to a German Jewish immigrant to a Dominican immigrant neighborhood
Meeting Place: In front of Boricua College at 3755 Broadway. (the cross street is Audubon Terrace)
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