This walking tour focuses
on the History and Architecture of a part of the Upper West Side along with interesting pictures and stories that
join us with the neighborhood's past.
This Walking Tour Of the Upper West Side's Past and Present Features:
A Walk in "The West 71 St. Historic District," "The West End Collegiate Historic District" and "The Riverside Drive W. 80 St. - W. 81 St. Historic District" - Each participant is given an itinerary with 20 stops that include: 13 New York City landmarks and 7 national landmarks.
Also an optional extension through the "Riverside-West End Historic District" with an
additional 10 stops including 8 New York landmarks and 4 national landmarks. All
stops are fully discussed - You will see the Upper West Side and learn its history.
Some highlights of the 2 hour tour include:
Information about how an why the Upper West Side developed
Harsenville a village on the Upper West Side
An apartment building that started life as a "Pythian Temple"
An apartment building that started life as a "Masonic Temple"
a landmark example of a 1904 "Control House."
The Dorilton
The Ansonia Hotel
Mae West
"Looking for Mr. Goodbar"
a historic district featuring New York brownstones
A Row of four landmark mansions
The Chatsworth Apartments - "Eleanor Roosevelt"
The West End - Collegiate Historic District
the landmark West Collegiate Church & School founded 1628
A block of beautiful Francis I French Renaissance styled row houses from 1891
The Hamilton Drinking Fountian
Fannie Brice & Lillian Russell
Find out about the largest and most lavish mansion built in Manhattan.
(Andrew Carnegie said "It makes mine look like a shack.")
Some highlights of the 3 hour tour include:
The Apthorp
The Belleclaire Hotel -- Fernando Wood
Joe Di Magio - Meyer Lansky - Mick Jagger
Find out about "The Fathers of the Upper West Side" Egbert Viele, Clarence True and more
West 80 St. & West 81 St. Historic District
Where Dorothy Parker (Algonquin's Roundtable) grew up
Riverside Drive Houses
"The Brain"
Where Babe Ruth spend his last years
Tom's Mount & the site of and picture of, Edgar Allen Poe's Cottage in Manhattan
An "Old Law Tenement" or "Dumbbell Tenement" and the story of what these names mean
.
Optional Extension for a 4 hour tour includes:
A prize winning "Joan of Arch"
The Red House
The West 85th St. Houses
An apt. bldg. with a Neo Renaissance vocabulary expressed in An art Deco style
The Riverside - West End Historic District
"Soldiers and Sailors Monument"
"Villa Julia"
find out where Lillian Hellman lived and more.
About 3 hours without the extension or 4 hours with the extension or a short 2 hour version
Meet at: the Southeast corner of West 70th Street and Broadway
Escorted by Alfred Pommer an
informative native New Yorker, a college graduate and a Licensed New York City Guide, who has spent over
19 years researching and creating walking tours in Manhattan.
Interested in a private walking tour" ?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details www.nycwalk.com