Explore the hidden gems of New York City with local tour guides, and learn about the city's history, culture, and architecture in these immersive walking tours.
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Learn more details about bird identification, from field marks and songs to habitat and behavior. Then put this into practice on the walk. Join urban naturalist and environmental educator Gabriel Willow to explore the surprising diversity of wildlife and ecology in New York City. Sessions include a 45-minute lecture followed by a 45-minute bird-watching walk in nearby Central Park. Bring binoculars if you have them! Pre-registration for all tours...
New York School of Interior Design
This is a series of guided tours to specified museums, art galleries, showroom and exhibitions hosted by varied design professional, art historians, museum curators and more. Each session will be different, featuring locations throughout the city and highlighting special events and exhibits to present her analysis.
New York School of Interior Design
Join us on a curated journey through the Interior Design Building in New York City, where you'll discover a world of exquisite art, antiques, and furniture shops. Immerse yourself in the world of high-quality interior design selections as you explore the finest merchants in this historic building. Don't miss this opportunity to experience originality and craftsmanship in interior design.
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"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Inside Central Park W & W 72nd St, New York, NY
The 2015 season, the 3rd, opens with this most popular of parks for foragers. Because of its varied habitats and the combination of wild and cultivated, native and exotic plants, Central Park is a great place to forage, even in the winter and early-spring. Here are some of the species we'll be finding: Cold-weather greens abound in Central Park in early March. In the Ramble, we'll be finding large stands of field garlic, with mild-flavored...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
On a walk through the Herb Garden, discover the colorful history of this maligned spirit—from sordid tales of the past to its myth-busting recent revival. See, smell, and touch the plants that flavor this herbal concoction, and afterward, sample a local distillers absinthe served in the classic fashion.
Enjoy a premier tour of the Huntington Library and Gardens before normal visiting hours. In a docent-led tour learn how Henry and Arabella Huntington turned their San Marino ranch into a world famous cultural landmark. Please read: El Camino College is delighted to offer enriching and adventurous single day tours curated by John Powers. Limited Seating. Pre-registration required: Call 310-660-6460 Transportation via chartered deluxe...
The Noble Experiment @ 23 Meadow St, Brooklyn, NY
Our distiller-hosted tours cover the history of rum distilling in New York, the story behind our distillery, and how our rum is made from raw ingredients thru final hand bottling. It can get fairly geeky! Included in this 45 minute in-depth, distiller-guided tour is a straight pour tasting of our rum and an after-tour cocktail.
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Have you ever wondered how a place got the name Flushing? Or why some people think Ridgewood is in Brooklyn? Which Queens parks are comparable to Central Park? And exactly what did the Astors have to do with Astoria? If you’re curious about such knowledge, here is your crash course in all things Queens -- taught mostly through walking tours. Our final class will be an Astoria walking tour that begins and ends at Q.E.D., where we'll have...
We'll be harvesting blackberries, and elderberries, both quite different from each other, and delicious. Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers in midsummer. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants. Most roots are out of season, but burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, is an exception, and it abounds in...
Learn about the history of gin while touring the school's herb garden. You'll see, smell and taste the plants that give gin its distinctive flavor, and learn why gin was such an important part of the recent distilling revival in Brooklyn. Then, we'll head to the classroom, where we'll sip a refreshing gin cocktail, with alcohol from a local distiller.
This coastal park, with open, sunny habitats, as well as a beach, thickets, and edges, is ideal for finding the first edible wild plants of early spring, and this event, led by America's go-to gal for foraging, Violet Brill, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy these common, tasty, renewable species. In open, sunny areas, you'll be finding common- and long-leaf plantain, related garden "weeds" that are loaded...
This coastal park, with open, sunny habitats, as well as a beach, thickets, and edges, is ideal for finding the first edible wild plants of early spring, and this event, led by America's go-to gal for foraging, Violet Brill, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy these common, tasty, renewable species. In open, sunny areas, you'll be finding common- and long-leaf plantain, related garden "weeds" that are loaded...
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 43 Gedney Way, White Plains, NY
This scenic woodland trail, running between houses in a residential area, is a great place for foraging in early spring, and, beginning at 11:45 AM, foraging expert Violet Brill, America's First Lady of Foraging, will be showing you all the many common, renewable shoots, greens, flowers, roots, and mushrooms that abound here during the course of a 2.5 hour foraging tour. Of course, one of the first things you'll learn will be violets. The flowers...
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 1 Columbus Ave, Tuckahoe, NY
In terms of quantity, quality, and variety, this early spring tour, along the Bronx River Pathway, is the best of the year. It's our only chance, for example, to find the strong-flavored, celery-like stems of the cow parsnip. Cooking tones down the flavor and creates delightful dishes from this little-known top-quality vegetable. If we've timed this tour correctly, we should also come across a stand of ostrich fern fiddleheads, at the peak of the...
French Institute Alliance Française @ 22 E 60th St, New York, NY
Learn essential French so that your trip to France is as easy as un, deux, trois ! Whether you’re planning your first dream vacation to Paris or are a seasoned traveler, this workshop will teach you essential language skills for your visit to a French-speaking country. You’ll learn the phrases you’ll need for real-world travel situations, such as booking airfare or eating in a restaurant, and explore important cultural customs.
Terra-Cotta, or “fired earth” is the clay chameleon of the concrete jungle: it can mimic stone or sport a rainbow of Technicolor glazes. Both light-weight and highly malleable, its ideal for both slim curtain walls and ornate sculptural ornaments. By the turn of the 20th century, many of the city’s most eminent architects, including Cass Gilbert, Henry Hardenbergh, George B. Post and Ely Jacques Khan, worked in terra-cotta, and the clay faced...
Groups will view contemporary and emerging art works in one of the hottest artist communities in NYC. Participants will led to several galleries and artist’s studios in the vicinity. Enjoy an inside view of a unique community right across the East River. Long Island City is an interesting mix of old, manufacturing, new industry, artist’s studios and galleries. Their tour will take travelers through the street and avenues of this western Queens...
Lauren A Kaplan Art Tours @ 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
This class will explore the Metropolitan Museum’s newly remodeled Art of the Arab Lands Galleries. We’ll experience the intricate patterns and twirling arabesques of Moroccan courtyards, Persian textiles, and Iranian mosaics. Finally, we’ll see how all of these colorful geometric designs inspired European painters like Eugene Delacroix and Henri Matisse. The class session includes close looking, lecture, and discussion.
Lauren A Kaplan Art Tours @ 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
This class will explore the Metropolitan Museum’s famed Egyptian wing. We’ll examine a 4000-year-old tomb, numerous mummies, a fully reconstructed temple, and religious texts like the Book of the Dead. By the end of our time together, we’ll know why ancient Egyptians devoted all of their time to preparing for the afterlife. The class session includes close looking, lecture, and discussion. Note: You will receive a discount if...
Lauren A Kaplan Art Tours @ 555 W 24th St, New York, NY
This class will focus on a handful of major players in the contemporary art world. We will stop in four galleries to see some of this season’s most talked-about exhibitions. All of our classes allow participants to learn directly from original art and architectural objects. Each class session includes close looking, lecture, and discussion. Note: You will receive a discount if you register for 2 or more classes or if you bring someone...
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