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The tour meets at 66th Street and Columbus Avenue in the outdoor seating area near the bust of Richard Tucker at Lincoln Center. We begin with a general overview of the area’s development from when Broadway’s beginning here as the Bloomingdale Lane made its way through a bucolic area of country estates and small farm-based villages with names like Harsenville.Propelled by the development of new transit systems, first horse cars and elevated trains and then subways, side streets were developed with fine residential brownstone homes in the latest architectural styles, especially Queen Anne, Beaux Arts while each of the avenues was projected to have its own path of development. Some were planned to be grand residential boulevards while others were meant for the stables and grocers that provisioned the wealthy with needs like firewood and coal. Central Park West, Columbus Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue, West End, Riverside Drive, and of course Broadway, sometimes held true to their original plans, while others took different tracks. To different degrees streets and avenues retained the looks of their original development, many having been radically altered. What’s left today is a puzzle that this tour seeks to demystify and unravel.In addition to the area’s shifting development, and an architectural history unique to the area, as we criss-cross the avenues and side streets you’ll learn the many different forms of early modes of upper class living, including French Flats, apartment-hotels, artists’ lofts, cooperatives, and mansion apartments. You’ll learn how the customs, norms and values of the day determined various living arrangements and the very particular layouts required for respectable but convenient multiple family housing for the middle and upper classes before the apartment building.The tour ends nearby the 1 subway at 79th and Broadway.Additional InformationConfirmation will be received at time of bookingSubject to favorable weather conditions. If canceled due to poor weather, you will be given the option of
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