Since 1956, MAS has been offering walking tours of New York’s cityscape, led by architectural, urban, and art historians, urban geographers, architects, teachers and writers. Most tours last about two hours and proceed rain or shine.
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2012 06/09 - East Side Enclaves
11:00 AM - Join Architectural Historian, Matt Postal, and see Manhattan's first historic district, Sniffen Court to Beekman Place, this tour considers some of New York City's most unusual and desirable residential enclaves. Located in close proximity to Midtown, we'll view picturesque residences that challenge traditional urban lifestyles and the ever-present grid, including converted stables, a trend-setting 1920s high-rise apartment complex, and Paul Rudolph's gravity-defying penthouse, a recently designated landmark. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/10 - LGBT Harlem
2:00 PM - Tour Leader: Laurence Frommer - Most people are aware of Greenwich Village's historic importance for LGBT life. However Harlem also played a major role in the development of LGBT culture and life in NYC particularly during the Prohibition era. If the drag balls of Greenwich Village attracted hundreds of people, similar events in Harlem attracted thousands. The speakeasies and salons of Harlem were major haunts for those that were "In the Life" as the LGBT experience was known. Join us for a walk through Harlem's amazing lavender past in honor of Pride Month. All are welcome! Cost $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/10 - Three Ways of Looking at Park Slope, Part 3 of 3: Park Slope South
2:00 PM - Architectural historian Francis Morrone shows us how the southern part of Park Slope developed differently from the northernpart. In the north were Brooklyn's richest families. In the south was a largely working-class population including workers at the Ansonia Clock Factory and at the plants and warehouses along the Gowanus Canal. From stately row houses to modest working-class blocks and unexpected wooden houses, churches and institutional buildings, the neighborhood of southern Park Slope tells a rich story of city life and neighborhood change. The tour will take place in part in the newly designated Park Slope Historic District Extension. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/16 - BoCoCa, Part 1 of 3: Boerum Hill
2:00 PM - In this series of three tours in brownstone Brooklyn, we will explore with Architectural Historian Francis Morrone, the three contiguous (even overlapping) neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens. We will begin with a wide-ranging look at Boerum Hill, including some of the city's most elegant brownstone blocks (many of them within the Boerum Hill Historic District), housing projects, industrial areas, and much more, including the thriving Smith Street commercial corridor and an important segment of Atlantic Avenue. It is a neighborhood of surprises. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/16 - El Barrio Walking Tour
2:00 PM - Join Luke Nephew, artist, educator and co-founder of the community-based arts collective The Peace Poets, for a tour of El Barrio Today Arts Cluster, a coalition of East Harlem organizations who have joined forces to raise awareness about the cultural richness of El Barrio. Come explore the neighborhood. Vibrant public art, beautiful community gardens, rich cultural organizations and one of a kind stores make East Harlem an unique place in New York. Highlights include the Graffiti Wall of Fame, Julia de Burgos Boulevard, local murals and much more. El Barrio Today Arts Cluster contributes to the naturally-occurring cultural district working group (NOCD-NY), an initiative seeking to strengthen organic, asset-based development in neighborhoods. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/17 - Pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village
2:00 PM - From the drag balls at Webster Hall to the lesbian owned haunts of Macdougal Street to the clubs featuring "Pansy Acts" to the slummers who would comb the Village to oggle the "fairies and dykes" cavorting openly in public, Greenwich Village was a major center of LGBT life almost half a century before the Stonewall rebellion. Join urbanist Laurence Frommer for a walk through pre-Stonewall life as embodied in NYC's quintessential enclave for those escaping the restrictions of mainstream society. Everyone is welcome! Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/19 - Conservation, Restoration and New Design of Architectural Art & Ornament: A Balancing Act
5:30 PM - Join us for a look at EverGreene's design, mural, conservation and plaster studios. The tour will include a look at current work in progress, a discussion of the design process and examples of studies, drawings, colorboards, renderings, models, samples, attachment system design and mockups. Conservation, restoration and design of new architectural elements are anything but straightforward. Multiple paint campaigns, partial repairs and building modifications can obscure the original aesthetic of a building's interior. AIA CEU credits available. See full course description. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/23 - Rockefeller Center Family Tour
11:00 AM - Join Art Historian Sylvia Laudien-Meo at Rockefeller Center where there is so much more than just the perfect place for a Christmas tree. Rockefeller is full with an abundance of sculptures and murals celebrating the ingenuity of modern man and a new global world, gods and construction workers, singing birds and silver airplanes, lots of hidden treasures and underground passages! This tour is interactive with activities geared to families with children 8 14 and all who like to sketch, explore and get to know New York City better. Cost: $20 / $15 Members. Space is limited and cost is same for adults and children.
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2012 06/24 - Morrisania: From Suburbia to the Grand Concourse (Part 3 of "Back to the Bronx": The Three M's)
10:00 AM - Let Jack Eichenbaum, Urban Geographer, show you the Bronx in a new way. Dealing with similar challenges of urban disinvestment and blight, the neighborhoods of Mott Haven, Melrose, and Morrisania were often referred to dismissively as simply "the South Bronx." In recent decades, planning and new buildings have begun to restore their livability. This walking tours stresses renewal in response to basic urban geography. Please be prepared to walk two miles and at a brisk pace. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 06/30 - Downtown: Where New York Began
10:30 AM - Join preservationist, Joe Svehlak, for this always-popular MAS Tour. How did Stone Street, Bridge Street, Gold Street, Broad Street, and many other Downtown streets get their names? Explore Downtown's Dutch and Colonial heritage from the Battery to Fulton Street, as we hear about the people, places, and things that gave their names to some of New York's oldest streets. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 07/07 - Bedford Stuyvesant, Part 1 of 2
11:00 AM - Join tour guides Suzanne Spellen, architectural historian and columnist "Montrose Morris" on Brownstoner.com, and Morgan Munsey, architect and historian for a weekend in Bedford Stuyvesant. Bed Stuy has a rich and storied history, from the Lenape peoples, through the Dutch, the English, African-Americans, and beyond. Anchoring that history is some of the city's finest residential row house architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bed Stuy is huge, like a city unto itself, and can't be well explored in a day, so we've divided the tour. Part One explores the proposed Bedford Historic District, focusing on Hancock Street and surrounding blocks, the heart of Bedford. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 07/07 - Flatbush Times Three, Part 1 of 3: Ditmas Park
2:00 PM - In his first reprise in several years of his popular Flatbush series, Architectural Historian Francis Morrone begins with one of Brooklyn's most increasingly popular neighborhoods, even as its splendid "Victorian" houses have ceased to be bargains. (Most of the houses are actually post-Victorian, which will be discussed on the tour.) The streets of the Ditmas Park Historic District are among the most beautiful residential streets in the city, the commodious houses intermingled with outstanding houses of worship and interesting pockets of commerce. Ditmas Park has its origins among the carefully planned suburban subdivisions laid out along the historic Brighton Line of the old BRT in the early 20th century. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 07/08 - Bedford Stuyvesant, Part 2 of 2
11:00 AM - Join Tour Guides Suzanne Spellen, architectural historian and columnist "Montrose Morris" on Brownstoner.com, and Morgan Munsey, architect and historian for a weekend in Bedford Stuyvesant. Bed Stuy has a rich and storied history, from the Lenape peoples, through the Dutch, the English, African-Americans, and beyond. Anchoring that history is some of the city's finest residential row house architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bed Stuy is huge, like a city unto itself, and can't be well explored in a day, so we've divided the tour. Part Two on Sunday, July 8, continues on to Stuyvesant Heights, partially landmarked in 1971, with a new Stuyvesant Heights Extension calendared by the LPC. Tour goers will see the works of some of Brooklyn's finest architects; their rowhouses, apartment buildings, mansions, schools and churches. We will also learn about the history and culture of the largest African-American community in New York City, a history that is hundreds of years in the making. Bedford Stuyvesant has received a great deal of attention in the last few years, and is undergoing many changes. Join us for a two-day look at one of Brooklyn's most intriguing, and architecturally rich communities. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 07/14 - New to New York: Broadway's Cultural Corridor
11:00 AM - Architectural Historian, Matt Postal, takes us to the West Side. Over the past decade or so, considerable change has come to Lincoln Center and its immediate neighborhood. Walking north from the Time Warner Center to Lincoln Square, we'll view a handful of new structures, several public spaces that have been transformed with great flair, and a few thoughtful adaptations of older buildings, including projects designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the center's lead architect, Tsien & Williams, Hugh Hardy, and Robert A. M. Stern Architects. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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2012 07/15 - Walking the New Waterfront, Part 1 of 3: The New East River Waterfront
2:00 PM - This is the first in a series of tours exploring the changing waterfronts of Manhattan with Architectural Historian Francis Morrone. For most of New York's history, maritime commerce was the city's lifeblood. The waterfronts were for shipping and industry. With the postwar decline of the port, the riverfronts, with their old piers, became wastelands, sometimes taken over for inappropriate uses (city tow pound, anyone?), as they awaited the redevelopment that seemed to be taking forever. But in the last twenty years we have seen all that change, as new parks, designed by some of the top names in landscape architecture, now belt Manhattan as the wharves and warehouses once did. We will begin our exploration at the new East River Waterfront Esplanade, by the architects SHoP and the landscape architect Ken Smith, and work our way up through the South Street Seaport and beyond, including some un-redeveloped stretches. Cost: $20 / $15 Members.
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