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TOURS FOR 2011

The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World by Frederick Cookinham

Walking Tour Series: 

Revolutionary Manhattan: Six tours

Ayn Rand's New York:     Five tours

Single Tours:  

New York's Oldest, Narrowest, Crookedest Streets -- Hamilton versus Burr -- Madison Square -- Ely Jacques Kahn's Art Deco New York -- Newspaper Row -- How New Yorkers Invented Christmas --  Manhattan's Colonial Roads -- The Rialto: The Theaters Before Times Square -- Kensico Cemetery -- New York's Lost Eden: The Collect Pond --Nieuw Amsterdam.... AND OTHERS!

       

THE AGE OF RAND:  IMAGINING AN OBJECTIVIST FUTURE WORLD, available from www.amazon.com.   See five reviews--four of them favorable--at Amazon website.

       

       Interview with Frederick Cookinham, author of The Age of Rand

 

Call 718-397-9019 (Home)  917-607-9019 (cell)   fcookinham@juno.com for information or to arrange private tours.

Frederick Cookinham, licensed New York City tour guide, earned his Bachelor's Degree in American History at Cortland State College in 1976, and his Master's at Brooklyn college in 1987.  He is the author of THE AGE OF RAND: IMAGINING AN OBJECTIVIST FUTURE WORLD, available from www.amazon.com

All scheduled tours are $20, $15 for those over 65, except where noted.  Private tours are available for $30 a person; just give Fred a call.  Tours begin at 11 a.m., except where highlighted in yellow.

Fred has led tours for the Morris-Jumel Mansion, Prof. Kenneth Jackson's class at Columbia U., the New-York Historical Society, the Art Deco Society of New York, the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, the Princeton Club, three book clubs, the Mont Pelerin Society of international economists, Fraunces Tavern Museum, and Grayline.

"The tour was super fantastic...erudite and passionate guide..."-- www.TinkertyTonk/OpenHouseNewYork/day2.com

"Lively...extraordinarily educational."--DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

"Fred is a kind of poet and street professor...."--Anne Heller, NEW YORK OBSERVER, 2-9-04.  (Anne C. Heller is the author of AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE.)

"The trivia spat out fast as tickertape. ...inserts whole dates into his sentences." -- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, GRAND STREET NEWS.

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S MARGOT ADLER'S PIECE ON FRED'S AYN RAND TOURS ON "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED"!..........

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/26/135735227/ayn-rands-new-york-toured-via-atlas-shrugged


TOUR SCHEDULE FOR 2011

SINGLE TOURS:

NEW! NEW YORK'S LOST EDEN:  THE COLLECT POND

Meet at Lafayette Street and Canal Street, northwest corner.  Where was the idyllic pond in colonial days?  Why did it disappear?  African Burial Ground, The Tombs, Chinatown.  Subway:  J, M, N, Q, R, W, Z, 6 to Canal Street.

Saturday, May 14, 11:00 a.m.  2 1/2 hours.

Sunday, October 9, 11:00 a.m.  2 1/2 hours.

 

NEW!  HAMILTON VERSUS BURR

Meet at West Broadway and Park Place, northeast corner.  See where the two political rivals lived and worked, and why they dueled.  See where Washington, Jefferson, George and Dewitt Clinton and John Jay lived, too.  Subway: 2 or 3 to Park Place.  2 1/2 hours.

Available on request.

 

NIEUW!   NIEUW AMSTERDAM

Meet in front of Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street.  What did the original Dutch city look like?  How did its people live?  Subway:  4 or 5 to Wall Street.

Available on request.

 

NEW YORK'S OLDEST, NARROWEST, CROOKEDEST STREETS  The name says it all.  Meet at Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street.  Subway 4, 5, or 6 to Wall Street.  2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, June 4

Sunday, June 5

Saturday, November 12

Sunday, November 13

 

 THE RIALTO: THE THEATERS BEFORE TIMES SQUARE   Meet at Broadway and E. 13th Street, northwest corner.  Up Broadway to Times Square, you will see the theater district of Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Lillian Russell, Lily Langtry, and Vaudeville.  2 1/2 hours.

Sunday, September 18

 

KENSICO CEMETERY   Go to Grand Central Terminal, get a roundtrip ticket to Valhalla,  meet at info booth at 10:30 a.m. and take the 10:48 train with me to see the fall colors and the graves of Ayn Rand, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Tommy Dorsey, Lou Gehrig, Danny Kaye and others.  Four or five from Grand Central and back. 

 Saturday, October 29, 10:30 a.m.

 

  ELY JACQUES KAHN'S ART DECO NEW YORK   Meet on the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and 45th St., in the heart of Times Square.  Kahn, more than any other single architect, gave New York the Art Deco skyscraper look we know and love today.  Three hours, with a break. 

Saturday, May 21

Sunday, May 22

Saturday, June 25

Sunday, June 26

Saturday, October 15

Sunday, October 16

 

  NEWSPAPER ROW    Meet on the northeast corner of Broadway and Fulton St., downtown.  Fulton St. subway stops.  Circa 1900, Park Row was Newspaper Row.  Hearst, Pulitzer, Poe, Dickens and the dreaded Five Points slum (as seen in the recent movie "Gangs of New York").  New York's oldest surviving skyscrapers.  2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, September 17

 

 HOW NEW YORKERS INVENTED CHRISTMAS    Meet on the northeast corner of Broadway and Wall St.  Yes, Christmas as we know it was largely started here, in the 19th Century.  Find out how, where, and why.  See where Virginia's letter was answered, where Washington Irving introduced Americans to Santa Claus and mistletoe, and meet Dickens' Wandering Spirits.  2 1/2 hours.

Sat., Dec. 10

Sunday, December 11

Saturday, December 17

Sunday, December 18

 

  MANHATTAN'S COLONIAL ROADS    Meet at Fraunces Tavern, Pearl St. at Broad St., downtown.  Whitehall N and R subway stop.    Walk out of town, to today's 23rd Street, as folks did 200 years ago.  Pictures and maps will show you exactly what you would have seen as you strolled up Pearl Street and the Bowery Lane past farms, ponds, hills and windmills.  $20, $15 for those over 65.  Three hours, with a rest stop.

Available on request.

 

UNION SQUARE  Meet on the northeast corner of Park Avenue South and East 17th Street.  Union Square 14th St. 4, 5, 6, N and R subway stops.  A current Manhattan hot spot full of history, art and theater.  90 minutes.

Available on request.

 

 MADISON SQUARE:  Available on request.

I will also give a 90-minute Madison Square tour--FREE to the public--sponsored by the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership --meeting at the statue of William H. Seward at the southwest corner of the park, at Broadway and 23rd Street--at 11 a.m. on the following Sundays:

January 16

February 6

February 27

March 20

April 3

April 17

May 15

June 12

July 10

August 7

September 4

October 2

October 30

November 27

December 25


TOUR SERIES:

REVOLUTIONARY MANHATTAN

  REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS    Meet at Fraunces Tavern, Pearl St. at Broad St., downtown.  Whitehall N an R subway stop.  Little-known sites:  Taverns, riots, spies, conspiracies, in the midst of the transition of power from King to mob to congress.  The Washingtons of Cherry Street.   2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, May 7

Sunday, May 8

Saturday, July 2

Sunday, July 3

 

  THE LEGEND OF MARGARET CORBIN    Meet on the northwest corner of Broadway and 207th St., far northern Manhattan.  "A" Train to 207th St.  The battle for Fort Washington, camp life, the historic Dyckman House.  The first woman to fight in the U.S. Army.  Reading a battle map.  Who were the Hessians?  2 1/2 hours.

Available on request.

 

  THE SURRENDER OF FORT WASHINGTON    Meet at the south entrance of Fort Tryon Park, on Margaret Corbin Plaza, at the north end of Ft. Washington Avenue, in Washington Heights.  Take the "A" Train to 190th St. and take the elevator in the subway station to the top of the hill.  Manhattan's own major Revolutionary War battle, but very little known.  Stand on the ramparts of the "Alamo of the Revolution."  Eighteenth Century honor.  Fort Washington Park, the George Washington Bridge, and the Little Red Lighthouse.  How not to build a fort.  Howe to take one.  2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, November 26

 

  THE BATTLES IN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS    Meet on the southeast corner of Ft. Washington Avenue and 181st St.  "A" Train to 181st St.  Where Washington warred and Burr wooed.  John James Audubon, Malcolm X, Clement C. Moore, Mrs. Astor, Billy Sunday, Freddie Prinz, Maria Callas, Gen. Knyphausen and the Hessians, Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.  INCLUDES FREE ADMISSION TO MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION!  2 1/2 hours.

Available on request.

 DOWN WITH KING GEORGE!    Meet on the steps of the Museum of The American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, Broadway at Battery Place, downtown.  Bowling Green or Whitehall subway stops.  Revolution in the capital of colonial America.  African Burial Ground.  How New York declared its independence.  Sgt. Champe's mission:  Kidnap Benedict Arnold!   2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, July 9

Saturday, August 6

Saturday, October 22

Sunday, October 23


TOUR SERIES:

AYN RAND'S NEW YORK

NEW!  ATLAS SHRUGGED  

Meet on the southeast corner of Park Avenue and E. 50th Street (the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel).  See places Rand researched and fictionalized in the novel, around and in Grand Central Terminal.  Subway: Number 6 train to E. 51st Street, or Grand Central stops.  90 minutes.

Saturday, April 16 -- THE DAY AFTER THE PREMIERE OF THE LONG, LONG AWAITED ATLAS SHRUGGED MOVIE!!

Saturday, April 23

Sunday, April 24

Saturday, May 28

Sunday, May 29

Saturday, July 23

Sunday, July 24

Saturday, November 5

Sunday, November 6

 

AYN RAND'S PARK AVENUE    Meet on the northeast corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and E. 42nd Street.  (Grand Central Terminal southwest entrance.)  Grand Central subway stops.  Where Rand lived and held her salons.  Scenes from Atlas Shrugged.  Where Rand learned about architecture from Ely Jacques Kahn, in his own masterpiece Art Deco building.   90 minutes.

Saturday, April 2

Saturday, April 9

Sunday, April 10

Saturday, April 30

Sunday, May 1

Saturday, June 11

Saturday, October 1

AND THERE'S MORE!!

I will ALSO meet you at Vanderbilt Avenue and E. 42nd street, northeast corner, for "Ayn Rand's Park Avenue" every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. from March 16 (the first Wednesday after Daylight Saving Time begins) through September 28.  Two hours.

 

 SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FOUNTAINHEAD    Meet at Number 1 Broadway, at Battery Place.  Bowling Green subway stop.  The changing styles in architecture -- from Beaux Arts to Art Deco to International Style -- that form the background to the story of Roark's struggle.  Was Roark Wright? -- the real-life models for Rand's characters.  2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, July 16--CANCELED!!

Sunday, July 17--CANCELED!!

Saturday, August 27

Sunday, August 28

Saturday, November 19

Sunday, November 20

 

 AYN RAND ON BROADWAY    Meet on the northeast corner of Broadway and W. 49th St.  Skyscrapers, newspapers, Broadway and books.  DeMille, Hellman, and where Alan Greenspan played sax.  Where "The Night of January 16th," "The Unconquered," and "Think Twice" were produced.  Isabel Paterson at the Herald Tribune.  Patricia Neal, the Shuberts, the Gershwins, and of course more Art Deco.  2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, August 13

Sunday, August 14

 

 AYN RAND'S FIFTH AVENUE    Meet at the Columbus statue in Columbus Circle.  Columbus Circle subway stops.  Art and architecture in the glamour shopping district of the Twentieth Century world.   Central Park South, Rockefeller Center, the Stork Club, and where Random House published Atlas Shrugged.  Where Rand bought her paintings, clothes, and fancy dinners.  2 1/2 hours.

Saturday, September 24  CANCELED!!  I have a back injury.  Slowly improving.  Hope to be back in action next week.

Sunday, September 25  CANCELED!!

 

 TOURS START AT 11:00 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, EXCEPT where highlighted in yellow.

Some Saturdays and Sundays, and evenings, are still open--call me for a private tour!

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In Depth Walking Tours--Frederick Cookinham--41-07 53rd St., #3A--Woodside, NY 11377-4259

718-397-9019 (Home)       917-607-9019 (cell)           fcookinham@juno.com

American Revolution fans, join us at the American Revolution Roundtable:  www.arrt-ny.org, and at Fraunces Tavern Museum, www.FrauncesTavernMuseum.org.  For Objectivist-Libertarian monthly discussions, www.nycjunto.com.  Rand fans, find goods and services, or meet singles, at www.theatlasphere.com and www.atlassociety.com.

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