The Upper West Side Neighborhood Walking Tour
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories
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
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- 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,author and a Licensed New York City Guide,
who has spent over
27 years researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan' many diverse neighborhoods.
Interested in a Private Walking Tour" ?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details www.nycwalk.com
Or : E Mail Me
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