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Private Tour of the Gilded Age City around Madison Square 20% OFF
New York City, New York, USA
$180
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
The Private Tour of the Gilded Age City around Madison Square reveals the fascinating proximity of historical venues and their cultural significance. This captivating journey spans three hours, showcasing the evolution of New York during a transformative era.
- 🗽 Expert guide to provide in-depth insights into the Gilded Age and its notable figures.
- 📍 Discover the evolution of Madison Square, including the histories of Met Life and the first Madison Square Gardens.
- 🎭 Explore the Broadway Theatre district, delving into the rise of department stores and new urban living.
- 🏙️ Stroll along Fifth Avenue below 23rd Street, learning about its unique development and the impact of the Garment District.
- 🛍️ Visit Sixth Avenue, the middle-class shopping hub featuring notable buildings like Siegel-Cooper and B. Altmans.
- 🎶 Step into the old Tenderloin district, where concert-saloons and entertainment thrived during the Gilded Age.
- 🏢 Cross back to Fifth Avenue to admire early experimental apartment-hotels and notable buildings such as the Wilbraham and Martha Washington.
- 🌳 Conclude the tour in Madison Square Park, reflecting on significant landmarks like the Worth Monument and Delmonico's.
- 🍼 Pram/stroller friendly, accommodating families with infants and small children throughout the tour.
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Private Tour of the Gilded Age City around Madison Square
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 3 hours
- Expert guide
- Gratuities
Meeting point
We meet on Broadway alongside the Flatiron Building.
Return details
We meet on Broadway alongside the Flatiron Building.
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We begin the tour with a general overview of history and the city's move uptown. Pictures help recreate the evolution of the area from farmland to a fashionable city center. We learn the history of the Astors, the creation of the first Waldorf=Astoria, and their social interactions with families like the Vanderbilts of the new Industrial class wealth.
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Madison SquarePictures enhance a short walk and talk around Madison Square, including the hisotries of Met Life and the first Madison Square Gardens at the height of the Gilded Age.
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Broadway TheatreWe begin hte process of circumnavigating the ruins of the long forgotten city, when the telephone and electricity were brand new and not yet common to households. It was the age of the department store, hte apartment buildnig and the office towers, new ways of living, working and playing for a rising middle class. Each thoroughfare that crossed at Madison Square held a different class-based attraction of some form of commercia culture, including a redlight distrcit of blocks above 23rd Street and west of Broadway! Here, we begin the tour with the carriage trade shops of upper class wealth along Broadway, including th old Lord & Taylor and Arnold Constable & Co buildings, among others.
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Fifth AvenueFifth Avenue below 23rd Street has its own particular hisotry of development like no other place in hte city. Here, the Garment Distrcit was "diverted" from Midtown. The built environment here is different from any other blocks around.
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Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas)Sixth Avenue was the middle class shopping district and retains its spactacular array of buildings as the city moved from cast iron to steel frame construction. Some of the buidlings include: Seigel-Cooper, B. Altmans, Hugh O'Neill's, and Adams Dry Goods Store.
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BroadwayAbove 23rd Street history takes an abrupt turn as a few steps take us into the old tenderloin, blocks of concert-saloons, brothels and gambling halls from a time when the main form of entertainment in the house was the piano.
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Flatiron DistrictWe cross back to Fifth Avenue and again into a realm of substantial architecture. Here, early experimental forays into multiple family housing: apartment-hotels, French flats, bachelor flats, early coops are the featured buildign types. Some of the buildings include: the Wilbraham, Holland House, Seville and the Martha Washington.
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Madison Square ParkWe end the tour in Madison Square Park with some last interesting histories, inluding the Worth Monument, Delmonico's and the old Brunswick Club.
If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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Private Tour of the Gilded Age City around Madison Square 20% OFF
New York City, New York, USA
$180
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!