This 2-3 hour guided walking tour around Madison Square Park seeks out what's left to be found of the Gilded Age city. On this tour we read the architecture and decode the street walls in a neighborhood that was once the New York's city center at the height of the Gilded Age. Where the city came from (Soho), and where it moved to (Times Square, Museum Mile, and the shops of Fifth Avenue) is integral to understanding how New York, and Madison Square, developed. You’ll learn answers to questions you didn’t know you had about New York City, and leave with the deeply satisfying sense of understanding a city that author James Baldwin called 'spitefully incoherent'.
This walking tour looks at the Gilded Age that flourished in this neighborhood as a fashionable world class city center between the 1860s to the 1920s. We spend a few minutes giving context to the greater history of the city, and the role Madison Square played in its development.
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Where Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23rd Street all meet was the center of the Gilded Age. It was just becoming the new social, political, and cultural hub when the economy leapt forward in the Industrial Age (and wealth). The former patriarchy and landed elite like the Astors were out-spent by the new Industrial wealth like the Vanderbilts by a long-shot; Madison Square center stage for that social overthrow. In addition to the social-cultural history that shone during the Gilded Age, the era and buildings that replaced it are also worth exploring, and we'll find they, too have a fascinating history and commercial business buildings that overran everything in their path. There is a logic to the history that makes the buildings of New York make sense.
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We walk the blocks of Fifth Avenue between 23rd and 18th Streets, decoding the buildings as we go, understanding the order of development. What buildings were built when, for who, and how did they changed? Here, New York's "signature" building-type that can be found almost anywhere: the late 19th-century "state-of-the-art" steel-frame, manufacturing loft building, often in the "elongated" Beaux Arts style are examined in detail. Later known as Paternaster Row for the home mission office buildings and their publishing operations, it was a street of class and wealth converted to office buildings that included publishers, architects, textile manufacturers, and piano salerooms. A long forgotten business district in an even longer forgotten upper class neighborhood.
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women stepped from carriages to shop along this unusually narrow and quiet stretch of Broadway. It remains a gem locale in the city today.
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We learn a little about the department stores that once brought a long-lost energy to these blocks, never forgetting the architectural relics and ruins all around that tell the history of earlier times and previous occupants.
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It's not surprising that fewer buildings survive on this side of 23rd Street, redlight districts are not often preserved. What structures are left standing, besides venues and houses of ill-repute, housed middle and lower-middle class neighborhoods, and large African American and Jewish communities. These blocks attach to some of the city's most salacious, deviant and scandalous stories. that thrived for about 30 years on this side of Broadway.
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Here sheet music proliferated and popular music ensued. The early marketing methods of music promoters--the many manifestations of plugging--began here.
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We cross Broadway and immediately sense the historical shift in the streetwall as we walk just a few feet to Fifth Avenue, and the upper class part of town. The Wolcott Hotel was one of over a dozen fine, Gilded Age hotels in the immediate vicinity, many now converted to SROs and city housing.
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The final leg of the tour are the blocks between the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building. These blocks are the Rosetta Stone of New York history, containing buildings from every era passing through in the city's move uptown.
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We ends the tour at any point in Madison Square that is convent for the guests.
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Meet on the Broadway-side of the triangle-shaped building
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