What happened on International Tourest Guide Day - A New York City walking tour

Those of you who missed International Tourest Guide Day this past Thursday, February 21st. Missed out on some great walking tours of New York City (NYC). The two tours I lead focused in on the history of NYC as a major seaport in the 1800's... and the second focused on both the great fire of 1835, the birth of the nation, an attack on Wall Street, and business in NYC. The tours were well attended. The day was sunny even if the temperature was a little cold.

 

Lower Manhattan when above Wall Street was the country

Tomorrow is International Tourist Guide Day - February 21, 2013

Tomorrow is International Tourist Guide Day - February 21, 2013. The New York City Guides Association will be sponsoring International Tourist Guide Day on Thursday, February 21, 2013 with FREE Walking Tours with a licnesed NYC tour guide and I am doing 2 of them. So, plug into the attached link for more information.
http://www.ganyc.org/content.asp?ContentId=3324

International Tourest Guide Day is This Week - February 21, 2013

International Tourist Guide Day is this week - Feb 21, 2013

International Tourist Guide Day is this week. The New York City Guides Association will be sponsoring International Tourist Guide Day on Thursday, February 21, 2013 with FREE Walking Tours with a licnesed NYC tour guide. Plug into the attached link for more information.
http://www.ganyc.org/content.asp?ContentId=3324

 

The Ghost of New York City's Theater District - A New York City Walking Tour

David Belasco owner of the Belasco Theather

There is probably no place more haunted in New York City (NYC) than the Theater District in the Times Square area.  One of the greatest darlings is Olive Thomas who is said to haunt the New Amsterdam Theater one of the Ziegfeld Girls who still can be seen walking on the glass catwalk. On opening night one might see David Belasco owner of the Belasco Theater sitting in the audience, which is a good sign to the actors. You may even meet the two Royal Airforce pilots shot down over Berlin, Germany in World War II and died, but still made it to Times  Square and ate dinner at the Harvard Club. There are more ghost in the Theater District, but that is another story.

The New York City Tenement Museum - An NYC Walking Tour

The New York City Tenement Museum 97 Orchard Street Manhattan

 

 

In the late 1800's a wave of immigration began to hit the United States and the City of  New York. The Lower East Side of New York City (NYC) was just one of the areas that immigrant families came to settle and live in what came to be known as tenement buildings. The Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street here in NYC features a five-story brick tenement building that was home to an estimated 7,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 1935. When first constructed in 1863, it contained 22 apartments and a basement level saloon. Over time, four stoop-level and two basement apartments were converted into commercial retail space, leaving 16apartments in the building. Modifications over the years included the installation of indoor plumbing (cold running water , two toilets per floor), an air shaft , and gas followed by electricity. In 1935, rather than continue  to modify the building, the landlord evicted the residents, boarded the upper windows, and sealed the upper floors, leaving only the stoop-level and basement storefronts open for business. The museum's exhibits include restored apartments that depict the lives of immigrants  who lived at 97 Orchard Street between 1869 and 1935.

Guides Association of New York City GANYC - INTERNATIONAL TOURIST GUIDE DAY - FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The New York City Guides Association will be sponsoring International Tourist Guide Day on Thursday, February 21, 2013 with FREE Walking Tours with a licnesed NYC tour guide. Plug into the attached link for more information.

http://www.ganyc.org/content.asp?ContentId=3324

New York City (NYC) Walking Tour - The Cloisters

The Cloisters Museum & Gardens-Fort Tryon Park NYC 

 

Have you ever wanted to escape from New York City for the day? Then I would suggest the Cloisters museum and gardens a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The building and its cloistered gardens are located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan. An area which overlooks the Palisades in New Jersey, giving Fort Tryon Park a country like feel. The collection assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century and comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century.