From Farmlands to Fairway: Development of the UWS Wednesday, April 17th 5:00-6:30pm One of our city’s most knowledgeable and thoroughly engaging historians, Mosette Broderick, time-travels us back through the real estate development of the Upper West Side like few others can. Understand who built what where and when in a fast-moving, photo-packed talk that swings […]
Vaux Bridges of Central Park Walking Tour With guide Stefan Yarabek of the Calvert Vaux Preservation Association.
Thursday, May 9th 7:00-8:00pm FREE! At Shakespeare & Co. on Broadway The first NYC tenements, which appear by the 1820s, were mostly ramshackle, austere buildings, barely able to contain the thousands of new immigrants arriving daily. By 1885, however, something was happening in the design of “second generation” tenements. Now built largely by immigrants from […]
Friday, May 10th Noon-3:00pm The Leopard at des Artistes ~ 1 W. 67th Street An Affair with Beauty – The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy: Romantic Illusions is the dynamic second installment of a three-part biographical series celebrating the illustrious career and epic life of legendary illustrator and portraitist Howard Chandler Christy. This special afternoon […]
Wednesday, May 15th 6:30-7:45pm From its inception, Central Park was designed by Olmsted and Vaux as a work of art, free from “the incessant emphasis of artificial objects” and meant to be relished “through the eye”. Author and poet Stephen Wolf takes this guiding principle to include the mind's eye, as well. Wolf is our […]
Due to forecasts of a severe storm this evening, this walk is rescheduled to Monday, June 17th. Art Deco expert and architectural historian Tony Robins leads a captivating walking tour along Central Park West for a closer look at the Art Deco gems that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll explore how major architectural projects […]
The walk scheduled for Wednesday, June 5th 6:30-7:45pm has been moved to Wednesday, June 19th 6:30-7:45pm due to rain. with guide Stefan Yarabek of the Calvert Vaux Preservation Association.
Tuesday, Aug 6th 6-8pm Art Deco expert and architectural historian Tony Robins leads a captivating walking tour along Central Park West for a closer look at the Art Deco gems that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll explore how major architectural projects of the 1920s brought color and Jazz to the formerly sedate Boulevard. TICKETS
Thursday, June 6th 6:30-7:45pm Join the illustrious guide Francis Morrone for a walk along the blocks of West 73rd and 74th Streets between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. From Neo-Georgian to Moorish Revival, Beaux-Arts to Moderne, these blocks contain some of the finest residential design on the Upper West Side.
Wednesday, June 12th 6:15-7:45pm LW! Partner+ Members 2-for-1 Tickets! Explore the Ramble with NYC naturalist Leslie Day on this unique natural history tour. A walk with Leslie always reveals so much more than you might uncover on your own–we’ll “dig down” to learn about the trees, birds, herbaceous plants and even the human history of […]
