formerly Century Walking Tours
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DINING IS NOT THE NEW THEATER.....
WALKING TOURS ARE!
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TOURS FOR 2011
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.
