Upper West Side Tour

This is my neighborhood! I was born here, raised here and still live on the Upper West Side. I have raised 2 kids on the Upper West Side. I have seen it change, in various ways over the decades. And while there have been some changes the history of this area remains constant – incredible.

What led me into my interest in NYC history was when I found out that a very important battle at the beginning of the American Revolution happened two blocks from my childhood home. Then I discovered that Humphrey Bogart grew up down the block from me and he became who he became because of where he grew up.

Legends of the worlds of Crime and Entertainment called the Upper West Side home. The Upper West Side is home to the everything from the largest Gothic structure in the world, a University that has had more Oscar winners amongst it’s graduates than any other school in the United States (it’s mascot became a corporate icon) and is home to the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Come and see the neighborhood with someone who lives it!

• We will and walk down along Riverside Drive and Riverside Park.

• We will see a building that was a location for 2 of the biggest movies of 2007.

• We will see a memorial to a couple who had first class tickets on the Titanic, neighborhood residents who left their mark on the world of retailing and philanthropy.

• We will see a row of homes that over a century housed the Davis (Baking Powder) family, the doctor who gave us the Epipen, all of Duke Ellington’s sheet music, the Faber pencil king and a gang involved with a notorious 1934 robbery.

• The building that was the inspiration for a “spooky building” in the 1984 Ghostbusters.

• The official NYC Firemen’s Memorial

• The building that named a Motion Picture Studio

• Humphrey Bogart’s childhood home.

• We will wind our way through the old village of “Bloomingdale,” ending at 103rd Street.

• The total distance is 2. 1 miles spread out over 2.5 hours.