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FIFTH AVENUE GOLD COAST
April 27, 2008

On Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 1 PM, Manhattan historian Joyce Gold will present a 2-hour walking tour
through the history of the great mansions to the east of Central Park.

5th Ave Mansions
She will discuss the social history of the region
       — why the most elegant homes in New York moved to Fifth
       — how Fifth Avenue came to be one of the world’s most expensive strips
       — why at one point getting an address on the avenue was a bad move
       — what’s left of the streams that once flowed by
       — the intriguing origins of Central Park.

Highlights include historic mansions used for other purposes now
       —the Henry Clay Frick mansion, now the Frick Collection
       —the James B. Duke mansion, now the NYU Graduate Institute of Fine Arts
       —Augustus Van Horn Stuyvesant’s mansion, now the Ukrainian Institute of America; —the Edward S. Harkness house, which now houses the Commonwealth Fund.
We may enter the Ralph Lauren flagship store, itself a converted mansion

Fifth Avenue is also the home of countless famous and notorious people, including both legendary New York figures of the past—Henry Clay Frick, Joan Crawford, Joseph Pulitzer, Doris Duke, George M Cohan, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; and of the present—Bill Cosby, Barbara Walters, and Mary Tyler Moore. Ms. Gold will keep walkers abreast of the living history of the neighborhood along the walk by pointing out all these historic residences.

The walk begins at the Frick Collection, at 1 E. 70th Street. The tour costs $15 per person ($3 discount for seniors 65+) and no reservations are needed.

Joyce Gold, instructor of Manhattan history at New School and New York Universities, conducts these walks. With a M.A. in Metropolitan Studies from NYU, she has contributed to the Encyclopedia of New York City and is the author of From Windmills to the World Trade Center: A Walking Guide through Lower Manhattan History and From Trout Stream to Bohemia: A Walking Guide through Greenwich Village History .



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	Featured Tour... FIFTH AVENUE GOLD COAST April 27, 2008 On Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 1 PM, Manhattan historian Joyce Gold will present a 2-hour walking tour through the history of the great mansions to the east of Central Park. She will discuss the social history of the region — why the most elegant homes in New York moved to Fifth — how Fifth Avenue came to be one of the world’s most expensive strips — why at one point getting an address on the avenue was a bad move — what’s left of the streams that once flowed by — the intriguing origins of Central Park. Highlights include historic mansions used for other purposes now —the Henry Clay Frick mansion, now the Frick Collection —the James B. Duke mansion, now the NYU Graduate Institute of Fine Arts —Augustus Van Horn Stuyvesant’s mansion, now the Ukrainian Institute of America; —the Edward S. Harkness house, which now houses the Commonwealth Fund. We may enter the Ralph Lauren flagship store, itself a converted mansion Fifth Avenue is also the home of countless famous and notorious people, including both legendary New York figures of the past—Henry Clay Frick, Joan Crawford, Joseph Pulitzer, Doris Duke, George M Cohan, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; and of the present—Bill Cosby, Barbara Walters, and Mary Tyler Moore. Ms. Gold will keep walkers abreast of the living history of the neighborhood along the walk by pointing out all these historic residences. The walk begins at the Frick Collection, at 1 E. 70th Street. The tour costs $15 per person ($3 discount for seniors 65+) and no reservations are needed. Joyce Gold, instructor of Manhattan history at New School and New York Universities, conducts these walks. With a M.A. in Metropolitan Studies from NYU, she has contributed to the Encyclopedia of New York City and is the author of From Windmills to the World Trade Center: A Walking Guide through Lower Manhattan History and From Trout Stream to Bohemia: A Walking Guide through Greenwich Village History .
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