Discover New York

From Beaux-Arts to Modernism (4 Hour Experience):

• 42nd Street
  From plays to reality, few streets are better known than 42nd Street. We cover the neighborhood's historical period of architecture from 1913 to 1950's. What role does this street play in Manhattan's history? Discover the grandeur of the New York Public Library and the renovation of Bryant Park. Explore the majesty of Grand Central Terminal and visit the whispering corner. Look at the fabulous elevator cabs in The Chrysler Building. See the world from inside the Daily News. Marvel at the foliage in the Ford Foundation and learn the history of Tudor City.
  

Include the New York Public Library (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):

• Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
• Tour the United Nations
  Take a private tour of the United Nations and learn about the plans to renovate the building and complex. Find out how New York architecture is changing today.

Design and the Subways (4 Hour Experience):

• Grand Central Terminal and Grand Central Station
  How do New Yorkers get around town and leave town? Explore the multi-level complex of Grand Central Terminal. See how the train tracks were designed to accommodate both local and out of state trains, combine with the subway and pedestrian access; yet allow street traffic to continue to move up and down Park Avenue. This remarkable building has undergone a wonderful renovation to bring it back to the grandeur of its birth in 1913. Art and architecture have combined to form a very interesting and exquisite destination.
  

Include a Visit to the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):

• Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
  
• NYC Transit Museum or Brooklyn Trolley Museum
  Go back in time when we visit the New York City Transit Museum or the Brooklyn Trolley Museum. See how the world's most famous underground railway got its start and evolved into a system that carries 3.5 million passengers a day. Take a private look at vintage subway cars, antique turnstiles, and the oldest New York City rapid transit railway car in existence, “Money Car ‘G’”.

Rockefeller Center (4 Hour Experience):

• 1920's to the 21st Century
  Racing to ever-greater heights; towers of romantic silhouettes dominated New York's skyline between the two world wars. Discover how the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the Daily News, the Chrysler, and the Chanin Buildings were influenced by European design, yet are uniquely American with a fusion of "Jazz Age" popular culture and new technology.

Include a Visit to the Top of the Rock (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):

• Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
  
• Top of the Rock
  Our next step provides a bird’s eye view from the top of the General Electric Building at the Top of the Rock as your guide points out the various neighborhoods of New York for you.

From the 19th Century Tree-Lined Streets to Cinematic Views (4 Hour Experience):

• Brooklyn Brownstones
  Explore some of New York's most charming neighborhoods: Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens. Enjoy the cinematic view of Lower Manhattan across the river and walk the tree lined streets where artists and writers sought inspiration and the wealthy found refuge from Manhattan. Discover the architecture, shops, and culture of the "Brownstone Belt."

Include Prospect Park (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):

• Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
  
• Prospect Park
  Discover the gracious architecture of Park Slope. Explore Prospect Park, the crowning achievement of Brooklyn's golden decade - the 1860's. The park is filled with winding carriage paths and lush landscape.

A Tale of Two Cities (4 Hour Experience):

• East Side: Fifth, Madison and Park Avenue, New York's "Gold Coast"
  Gain an insight into the history of the Upper East Side, the city's posh residential district, and the Upper West Side, one of New York's most dynamic neighborhoods. Explore this traditional bastion of townhouses, mansions, apartment buildings, private clubs, major institutions, and luxury shops. Walk the quiet tree-lined streets and avenues where the well-heeled and well-known discreetly make their home.
• The Upper West Side: New York's New Gold Coast
  Across Central Park, the Upper West Side is home to the city's most creative movers and shakers in the performing arts and media. Walk and explore this "Parisian styled" district of eclectic architecture and theatrical lifestyles. Uncover the history of the famous Dakota and Lincoln Center.

Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Riverside Church (4 Hour Experience):

• Cathedral of St. John the Divine
  Walk through the bustling nave and through the serene chapels to learn about this grand structure. Investigate the structure of gothic cathedrals, the function of flying buttresses, and explore why many cathedrals took hundreds of years to build. Since its first stone was laid in 1892, this Episcopal Church has been a cornerstone of the neighborhood. Also visit the Cathedral's Biblical Garden and the Rose Garden. The Cathedral looks gorgeous now that the renovation is complete after the fire of 2001.
  
• Riverside Church
  Designed by Henry C. Pelton and Charles Collens, the Riverside Church is modeled after a 13th Century gothic cathedral in Chartres, France. Explore its gothic tower, labyrinth, and nave. Discover where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached his famous anti-Vietnam War sermon. Enjoy the original Renaissance windows and astonishing tapestries.

Park Avenue 1922 - 2001 (4 Hour Experience):

• The 1920's to the 21st Century
  Park Avenue is synonymous with wealth. It boasts some of the world's most famous buildings including the famous Waldorf Astoria, home to every U.S. President since Herbert Hoover. Uncover Park Avenue's unglamorous past while traveling past famous shops and eateries. From the first decade of this century, see the transformation from an avenue of open railroad tracks into an elegant beaux-arts boulevard, and its redevelopment after the Second World War as an icon of the cool, corporate, "International Style" Modernism.

Skyscrapers in New York (4 Hour Experience):

• Lower Manhattan
  Walk through the dense canyon at Manhattan's southern tip, and discover the birthplace of the New York Skyscraper. Explore the eclectic classicism of the turn of the century, the romantic Art Deco of the 20's and 30's, the sleek glass forms of the post-war era, and post-modern historicism. Discover the enormous technological, social, and economic forces that produced these icons of the 20th Century.
• Midtown
  Visit the city's greatest collection of skyscrapers from the 1920's through the 1990's. Explore the works of such masters as Raymond Hood, William Van Allen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Edward Durell Stone, Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei. Discover some of the landmarks of the Art Deco, Modern, and Post-Modern movement such as the Chrysler Building, The Daily News Building, Seagram Building, Lever House, and the Sony/AT&T building.

Why it is the Center of New York (4 Hour Experience):

• The Historic Transit System
  Hailed as a great civic venture, travel under the streets of the city to discover: the classical Beaux Arts designs of the turn of the century, the geometric and colorful Arts and Crafts designs of the Teens and Twenties, the Machine Age Modern of the Thirties, and the renovated and restored stations of today. Visit several subway stations noted for their complexity of design and intricacy in detail.
  
• Grand Central
  Discover Grand Central, the world's largest and busiest transportation building. Take a private tour through this magnificent and historic building containing 75-foot arched windows, fluted columns and recently restored hand painted ceilings. Discover which architects designed Grand Central. Why did Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis fight to preserve Grand Central as a historical landmark?

Include a Visit to the New York Public Library (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):

• Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
  
• Beaux Arts Midtown
  See Midtown Manhattan's Beaux-Arts landmarks such as the Public Library, hotels, private clubs and department stores that gave New York a sense of urban drama and its citizens a source of civic pride.

East Village and Greenwich Village (4 Hour Experience):

• The East Village
  Walk through the neighborhoods made famous by immigrants, radicals, and show folk alike. From the "Jewish Rialto" of the turn of the century to the hit Broadway musical "Rent," see why the East Village has been a part of our popular culture. Learn about the German, Ukrainian, and Eastern European Jewish immigrants, as well as the Beats, the Hippies and a host of radicals. Discover Old World bakeries, ethnic food stores, craft shops, off-off Broadway theaters, and the sites of the birth of the counter-culture.
• Greenwich Village
  A stroll through the Village transports even the most jaded traveler, revealing the many layers of its rich history and varied lifestyles. Enjoy New Yorker's beloved Landmark District filled with gracious architecture, residential tree-lined streets, hidden mews, enticing ethnic cuisine, political and social history, off-Broadway theaters and diverse night life.

Include the Meatpacking District (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):

• Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
  
• Meatpacking District
  The transition from wholesale butcher shops to a place where the hip and famous meet has been stunning over the past few years. We visit the neighborhood and see the boutiques and restaurants that open weekly so each visit is different.