Bargains
Learn how to take advantage of the many bargains the city's emporiums offer to the educated customer, naturally coached by Dr. Schoenberg. Learn how to shop at Barney's, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, and other places.
Meeting Place: In front of the Swedish Lutheran Church Library, 5 E. 48th St. (the cross St. is 5th Ave.)
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Big Apple Media Tour
Learn how the expressions "news flash" and "yellow journalism" originated. Learn about New York's journalist history as we visit newspaper row near City Hall.
Meeting Place: Inside Blimpie's Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park
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Fifth Avenue
Almost any section of Fifth Avenue is fascinating to discuss and to visit from its beginning on 4th Street to its end in Harlem. We can visit Museum Mile from 105th Street to 59th Street (El Museo del Barrio, Conservatory Garden, Museum of the City of New York, Jewish Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Guggenheim Museum, etc.), Midtown (Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Warner Brothers Store, Steuben Glass, New York Public Library, Empire State Building, etc.), Flat Iron District, and Greenwich Village.
Meeting Place: This is one long street where we can start anywhere you want.
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Holdout! Some Unusual Real Estate Deals that Shaped New York City
From the first crooked real estate transaction in seventeenth century when the Dutch, not the Amerindians, got hoodwinked, unusual real estate deals have had great impact upon, New York City's development.
Meeting Place: In front of the Swedish Lutheran Church Library, 5 E. 48th St. (the cross St. is 5th Ave.)
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Maritime New York: From South Street Seaport to Staten Island
Discover the rise and fall of the Port of New York as the world's greatest harbor as we visit the Titanic Memorial, South Street Seaport, Fulton Fish Market, and the Cunard Building and take a ride on the Staten Island Ferry.
Meeting Place: Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park
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South Street Sea Port
Explore New York's maritime heritage.--the rise and fall of the Port of New York as the nation's leading harbor. The Fulton Fish Market remains the nation's largest. Schermerhorn Row with its 1812-Federal-style warehouses is Manhattan's oldest block. Pier A designed to welcome celebrities to the Big Apple is the oldest dock in New York City.
Meeting Place: Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park
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Victorian Downtown Manhattan Tour
New York City shaped Victorian America with the Brooklyn Bridge, brownstones, skyscrapers, elevated lines, clipper ships, the comic strip, yellow journalism, professional police work, and professional fire fighting. Finally, we will discuss the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898.
Meeting Place: Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park
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Walk Across 42nd Street
As we walk across 42nd Street, we will be able to observe the history and development of this part of Manhattan from the East River to the Hudson River. The street has certainly evolved when it was simply a name on the 1811 plan for the future growth of New York City. The United Nations, the Chrysler Building, Times Square, and the New York Daily News Building are some of the places we will view.
Meeting Place: Southwest corner of 42nd St. and 1st Ave.
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Walk Down Fifth Avenue
Discover the notable historical and architectural achievements of this street from 34th Street to Central Park. Discover how this area changed from farm land to upscale residential neighborhood of the Roosevelts, Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and the Whitneys to and upscale shopping district.
Meeting Place: Southeast corner of 60nd St. and 5th Ave.
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