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Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour

Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour

Overview

This Midtown Manhattan walking tour includes every aspect of the built environment: the city's historical move uptown, public and private works of art and architecture. This tour is unique for the underground passages, tunnels and POPS (privately-owned-public-places) that link these curated blocks of the city's most interesting and engaging spaces.

City: New York City

Thu 03 Apr

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Starting at $425.00

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Thu 03 Apr

Starting at $425.00

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What's Included

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Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

What To Expect

Hell's Kitchen

We start the tour by dipping our toe into the tenements of Hell's Kitchen, a good juxtaposition for the residential history we see on Fifth Avenue at the end of the tour. We discuss zoning laws and POPS (privately-owned-public- spaces) at Worldwide Plaza.

Times Square

At the Citizen Hotel in tims Square we discuss the history of New York and its move uptown. In the hotel lobby we see works by Julien Opie

Times Square

787 Axa Equitable (now, BNP Paribas). Here we deconstruct a Roy Lichtenstein mural, then head out back to more works of art and 6 1/2 Avenue, a quirk of zoning and creative urban planning.

Midtown

We pass into an underground tunnel netwoek that links a series of Midtown Manhattan corportate lobbies with stunning works of art, from Frank Stell and Fritz Glarner to Sarah Morris and Mark Bradford. Skyscraper Alley is the nickname for these buildings by Wallace Harrison, part of the consortium of architects who built rockefeller Center.

Rockefeller Center

We pass through Rockefeller Center and along the way discuss the fascinating, inordinate history, incuding: Columbia University, holdouts, Alexander Hamilton, Diego Rivera, radio and televison, the Rockefellers themselves , the architectural genius of Raymod Hood, and an incredible array of art. One key to understanding the hisotry of Modern architecture is in Rockefeller Center's program of art, not ornament, in its architecture (thoguh we'll see where John. D. Rockefeller Jr. won out over his architects and got a bit of ornament in his buildings)

St. Patrick's Cathedral

You will always remember the view up the escalator to behold St. Patrick's Cathdrel across the Street. We admire one of New York's most beautiful spaces, the last room in Rockefeller Center before heading out on Fifth Avenue. Becuase they are long gone, pictures bring back the era when Venderbilt manisons stretched from this part of Fifth Avenue up to Central Park.

Fifth Avenue

We discuss the history of Fifth Avenue and its periods of development.

Olympic Tower

We pass through the POPS of Olympic Tower and depending. We may use this time to discuss history or architecture if seating is availabe,

Park Avenue

There's a tone of hiostry to talk about here: Grand Central Terminal, the grid, the transformation of Park Avenue, twice! And the current "history" underway.

Monkey Bar

A must see stop on the tour.

Midtown

The tour ends with two of New York's most prized POPS that are across the street from each other: 550 Madison and the IBM building's POPS.

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