Upper West Side

The Upper West Side Walking Tour in NYC includes Lincoln Center, 2 civil rights memorials, Riverside Park South, lovely brownstone and other vintage architecture, the Museum of Natural History, and the New York Historical Society.

More about this tour: We will meet at Lincoln Center, where we will explore its vast transformation in the early ’60’s from a former residential area to one of the world’s most important performing arts centers. Then we will focus on two nearby major monuments to the American Civil Rights Movement. After walking to the Riverside South development, we will discuss its complicated transformation from former NY Central freight railroad yards to a large group of apartment buildings plus an extension of Riverside Park. Then we will move on to the old vintage Upper West Side. We will enjoy its charming brownstone and other architecture and see some lovely remnants of NYC of a century ago. Finally, we will learn more about two great Upper West Side museums: the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Historical. 

(Also available: A 1-hour virtual tour entitled “A Civil Rights Tour of the Upper West Side. Please contact me for more details re the virtual tour.)

Time: 2 hours

$39 per ticket