Discover The Cloisters
featuring Fort Tryon Park and Washington Heights Travel to Washington Heights with award-winning urban historian, Justin Ferate to visit that romantic Gothic complex, The Cloisters. High atop Manhattan Island, The Cloisters house the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of approximately five thousand works of art and architecture from medieval Europe. Best known for the beautiful tapestries and stained-glass windows on display, The Cloisters also offer architectural installations and fantastic views of the Hudson River. We will take a special guided tour of this remarkable institution. You’ll also stroll Fort Tryon Park, the former site of an American Revolutionary fort, and later the summer estate of newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett. Later, take a driving tour of the interesting Washington Heights neighborhood. Lunch will be at Bette Midler’s popular new restaurant, New Leaf Café, where all restaurant profits go toward restoring New York City parks!
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Your Price Includes:
Price: $125 per person Optional Insurance only 10%
Tours of the Cloisters & Ft. Tryon Park Lunch at New Leaf Cafe Upper Class Tour Director Depart: Mamaroneck 9:15 am, White Plains 9:45 am, Yonkers 10:00 am All taxes and gratuities Return: Yonkers 5:00 pm, White Plains 5:15 pm, Mamaroneck 5:45 pm
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kil featuring the Culinary Institute of America
Don’t be left behind…this trip is a perennial best seller! The only National Historic Site dedicated to a first lady, you’ll enjoy a rare and intimate private tour of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kil, her retreat, her office, her home, and her “laboratory” for social change. You’ll tour Mrs. Roosevelt’s Cottage and view the lovely gardens and grounds where she strolled. The cultural heritage and wealth of the regional diversity of foods of the Americas is brought to life by the imaginative cuisine at American Bounty restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America. You’ll enjoy a three-course lunch in this award-winning restaurant, now celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013 Price: $109 per person Optional Insurance only 10%
Your Price Includes:
Private Tour of Eleanor’s Val-Kill Home Lunch at the Culinary Institute Upper Class Tour Director Depart: Mamaroneck 8:30 am, Yonkers 9:15 am, White Plains 9:30 am All taxes and gratuities Return: White Plains 6:15 pm, Yonkers 6:30 pm Mamaroneck 7:00 pm
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