Chelsea
This neighborhood contains New York City's largest concentration of Anglo-Italianate row houses. Clement Clarke Moore, a wealthy, well-educated scholar, poet, and country gentleman developed the family farm into one of New York City's poshest neighborhoods before the Civil War. Moore, the author of "A Visit From Saint Nicholas," donated land to Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, where he worshiped, and to General Theological Seminary where he taught.
Meeting Place: In front of World of Wonders Books Store, 23 W.18th St.
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Christmas in New York
A Revolutionary Idea in association with Quality Street and Century Tours. Relive the first presidential Christmas in New York and learn how Santa Claus is a true New Yorker.
Meeting Place: Inside Blimpie's Restaurant, 38 Park Row, between Spruce and Beekman Streets, across from City Hall Park. Do not confuse with the Blimpie's on Church Street
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The Jack Finney Time and Again Tours
"Dr. Phil's Jack Finney tour in Manhattan made the fictional world of TIME AND AGAIN come alive for me. As a writer who knew Jack Finney and loved all his works, I am deeply appreciative to Dr. Phil for providing these extremely knowledgeable and entertaining forays." -- Darryl Brock, author of IF I NEVER GET BACK, HAVANA HEAT, and TWO IN THE FIELD. Dr. Philip E. Schoenberg, a licensed New York City Tour Guide and Jack Finney cultist, will facilitate your travel back in time with Jack Finney's memorable cult classic, Time and Again. Retrace the steps of romance and time travel in 1882!
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Jack Finney Time and Again Tour -- Part I: "At Home with Simon Morley in Gramercy Park and Madison Square"
Dr. Philip E. Schoenberg, a licensed New York City Tour Guide and Jack Finney cultist, will facilitate your travel back in time with Jack Finney's memorable cult classic, Time and Again. Retrace the steps of romance and time travel in 1882! We will retrace the footsteps of Simon Morley to Part I -- Gramercy Park and Madison Square Park with the home of Julia Charbaneux in the former and Statue of Liberty arm in the latter. Discover who were some of the high class neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Morley.
Meeting Place: In front of Players Club at 16 Gramercy Park South between Park Avenue South and Irving Place
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Jack Finney's Time and Again Tour -- Part II: the Tweed Court House and the World Newspaper Building.
We will look at the newly restored New York County Court House built by Bill. Tweed. Was he was framed by The New York Times! See where the "end of the World" took place -- the fire that destroyed the First Potter Building as we trace the adventurs of Simon Morley in Jack Finneyh's TIme andf gain..
Meeting Place: Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park
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Jack Finney's Time and Again Tour -- Part III: the Dakota Apartments and Central Park.
This is the launching pad for the most memorable time travel adventure of all time of Jack Finney's Time and Again.. We will explore the social history of the Dakota, the Upper West Side, the American Museum of Natural History and Central Park as we trace the adventures of Simon Morley.
Meeting Place: Northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in front of the Dakota Building
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Literary and Artistic Garrets of Greenwich Village
We will start, appropriately, at the Jefferson Market Library at Sixth Avenue and 10th Street. This walking tour will take you to the homes or sites associated with writers such as Edna St. Vincent Milay, Edgar Allan Poe, Djuna Barnes, Eugene O'Neili, e. e. cummings and others. Readings of some of their works is also included.
Meeting Place: In front of the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library, southwest corner of 6th Ave. and 10th St.
This tour is offered as a public and private tour.
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Theatrical East Village
Visit old and new sites of the English, German, and Yiddish Theater. See where a major riot took place on the proper way for actors to pronounce a Shakespearean play. The East Village is alive with off-Broadway and experimental theater.
Meeting Place: In front of the St. Mark's in the Bowery Church at the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street.
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Robert de Niro's TriBeCa, New York
In honor of De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival, discover how this neighborhood has evolved from an industrial slum to a stunning neighborhood that contains the greatest concentration of cast-iron buildings of the world and the cinematic and culinary empire of Robert De Niro as well as the home of trendy artists, movie makers, off-beat shops and fashionable restaurants. . It is now the home of the Tribeca Film Center.
Meeting Place: Inside Blimpie's Restaurant at 38 Park Row between Spruce and Beekman Streets across from City Hall Park
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Literary Garrets of the West Village and Elsewhere
Discover where Dylan Thomas, Rita Brown, Brete Harte, Joanne Woodward, Conan Doyle, Sam Sheppard, Berthold Brecht, O. Henry, Tom Payne, Jimmy Walker, Leontyne Price, Harpo Marx, E. B. White and Bill Cosby lived, labored, and visited.
Meeting Place: TBA
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Literary Haunts of Harlem
Discover the great writers of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen and others as we read their poetry and walk from the Schomberg Library, the greatest depository of the African-American heritage to view the Apollo Theater and Bill Clinton's office digs.
Meeting Place: Southwest Corner of Malcolm X (Lenox) Avenue and 135th Street near the Schomberg Library. The cross street is 135th Street
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