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My wheelchair-accessible walking tour is available daily at 3:00 p.m.
The walking tour price is $75 per guest.
Text or call 917-836-0760 to book a private tour for you or your group.
Individual tours are welcome!
We meet on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a breezy 95 minute stroll through the world's most popular filming destination that ends at Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum swan song masterpiece. Arrive five minutes early.
See filming locations from movies such as: 84 Charing Cross Road, Arthur, The Fisher King, Ghost Town, The International, Ocean's 8, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Ransom, Still of the Night, When Harry Met Sally, and Working Girl.
See the homes of literary icons J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote, and Eric Larsen. Walk in Central Park, and experience the impressive architecture of one of the country's oldest, wealthiest, and most beautiful neighborhoods in the world. You'll even see the Catholic Girls' school where Lady Gaga attended high school.
Art lovers rejoice! This is a great chance to plan your New York City day, visiting the Met Museum before our tour, and then checking out the Guggenheim Museum when we're done!
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The realms of film and fiction blur in Manhattan's lovely historic Carnegie Hill neighborhood where J.D. Salinger's home sits near Truman Capote's apartment, as well as that of Art Garfunkel.
Catherine Deneuve with Cole at Cannes
This is one fun New York City walk!
Gary Ross's OCEAN'S 8
Wayne Wang's MAID IN MANHATTAN
BRIAN DE PALMA'S DRESSED TO KILL
Angie Dickinson takes a cab at the MET in DRESSED TO KILL
JOHN McTIERNAN'S THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
The Temple of Dendur 10 BC at THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Jennifer Lopez & Ralph Fiennes at The Met in MAID IN MANHATTAN
Ricky Gervais and Tia Leoni at the Met in GHOST TOWN
Stockard Channing & Donald Sutherland SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
Rob Reiner's WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
Marlene Dietrich in her Park Avenue Apartment.
Marlene Dietrich with James Stewart in NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY.
Marilyn & Marlene (probably in Dietrich's Park Avenue Apartment).
Madeline Kahn and Cleavon Little in BLAZING SADDLES
The Carlyle Hotel
A Very Murray Christmas in Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle
Carrie and Louise at Bemelmans Bar
Bill Murray and Rashida Jones at Bemelman's Bar at the Carlyle Hotel in "On The Rocks"
Greg Kinnear and Ricky Gervais GHOST TOWN
Tom Wolfe dining in Carnegie Hill
Mike Nichols: American Master
The Jackie Kennedy Onassis Penthouse
Park Avenue
Al Pacino filming Amazon's television series "Hunters" in Carnegie Hill on April 23, 2019
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at dusk.
Gratuities are encouraged, accepted, and warmly appreciated!
Modern architecture meets Moderne on 5th Avenue
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GARY ROSS'S OCEANS 8
Andy Warhol in the window of his Lexington Avenue apartment.
Radha Mitchell in Woody Allen's MELINDA AND MELINDA
Central Park Location in Bart Layton’s AMERICAN ANIMALS
Springtime duckling with the parents at the JKO Reservoir.
Amy Adams in ENCHANTED
Clive Owen in THE INTERNATIONAL
Jeffrey Kimball's BIRDERS: THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT
A Bald Eagle In Central Park In 2021
Ron Howard's RANSOM
Ricky Gervais and Tea Leoni in GHOST TOWN
Oliver Stone's WALL STREET
Dustin Hoffman in TOOTSIE
Will Smith and Heather Graham in SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
Ralph Fiennes & Jennifer Lopez in MAID IN MANHATTAN
AUGUST RUSH
Eva Mendes in HITCH
Jonathan Glazer's BIRTH
Woody Allen's MELINDA AND MELINDA
John Schlesinger's MARATHON MAN
Central Park in snow.
The COOPER HEWITT MUSEUM (The Carnegie Mansion)
The Carnegie Mansion in ARTHUR
Mike Nichols's WORKING GIRL
David Greene's 1974 GODSPELL
THE OTTO H. KAHN MANSION Today
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Otto H. Kahn's Florentine Palazzo)
SIDNEY LUMET'S THE VERDICT (The Otto H. Kahn Mansion)
THE NEXT MAN (SEAN CONNERY)
Andrew Davis's A PERFECT MURDER
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Keanu Reeves on 5th Avenue in THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE HOUSE
The Marx Brothers — Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Gummo.
The Jewish Museum
Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman
Street musicians play in Carnegie Hill.
Bette Midler
Greg Kinnear and Ricky Gervais in GHOST TOWN
A Ghost in GHOST TOWN
"HUNTERS" filming location.
Jonathan Glazer's BIRTH
Ricky Gervais in GHOST TOWN
Tea Leoni and Ricky Gervais in David Koepp's GHOST TOWN
The Red Castle From Terry Gilliam's THE FISHER KING
Henry Hathaway's THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET
New York City Beer History Bordering Carnegie Hill
Phoebe Cates's MADISON AVENUE STORE BLUE TREE
Jerry Seinfeld & Ali Wentworth COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE
Jerry Seinfeld & Ali Wentworth COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE
Ron Howard's RANSOM
Halloween in Carnegie Hill
Fast cars in Carnegie Hill.
Ghosts chase Ricky Gervais down Park Avenue in Ghost Town
Stockard Channing
J.D. Salinger
Shane Salerno's SALINGER
Sidney Lumet's House on Lexington
Woody Allen's MELINDA AND MELINDA
Radha Mitchell, Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet, Josh Brolin - Melinda and Melinda
Andy Warhol's 1889 red brick Northern Renaissance row-house (second from the left). Screenshot is from MARATHON MAN.
The Dalton School in Woody Allen's MANHATTAN.
Lloyd Kaufman's Toxic Avenger Gargoyle
Dan Rather
Dan Rather / REM — What's the Frequency Kenneth?
Christopher Reeve
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
YANKEES PITCHER DAVID CONE
JEREMY WORKMAN'S THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET
Park Avenue Dazzles in Springtime!
KING KONG atop the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
The Carnegie Mansion
BRIAN DE PALMA'S DRESSED TO KILL
Mel Gibson's apartment building in RANSOM.
Garry Shandling and Goldie Hawn in TOWN AND COUNTRY
The Guggenheim Museum in Tom Twyker's THE INTERNATIONAL
THE INTERNATIONAL
Clive Owen in THE INTERNATIONAL
George Sidney's BYE BYE BIRDIE
Gene Saks's CACTUS FLOWER with Goldie Hawn and Walter Matthau.
Matthew Barney's CREMASTER 3
Barry Sonnenfeld's MEN IN BLACK (1997)
Sydney Pollack's THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975)
Victor Levin's 5 TO 7
Mary Harron's AMERICAN PSYCHO
Keanu Reeves in THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron in THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
Bérénice Marlohe, Lambert Wilson, Jocelyn DeBoer, Anton Yelchin in “5 to 7”
Manhattan From Above
CENTRAL PARK IN "GHOST TOWN"
Legendary gossip columnist Cindy Adams tells it like it is in the New York Post (8/1/18).
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What's New: ARCHITECTURAL STYLES OF CARNEGIE HILL WALKING TOUR — Tours Available Upon Request.
Carnegie Hill historian Cole Smithey introduces you to the 19 styles of architecture that make up the neighborhood's dynamic atmosphere of sophistication. Art Deco, Beaux-Arts, Chateauesque, Modern, Neo-Federal, Neo-Grec and Queen Anne architecture are some of the styles you'll discover on this 90 minute walking tour ($95 tour price includes a copy of the 374-page book, the Carnegie Hill Architectural Guide).
Celebrate the achievements of venerable architects such as Emery Roth and Frank Lloyd Wright while soaking up the neighborhood where caricaturist Al Hirschfeld lived on the same block as Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko.
Call or text to 917-836-0760 to book a personalized tour of Carnegie Hill's 19 different styles of architecture. The tour meets at the Guggenheim, and ends on New York City's most beautiful block. The tour (price $75) includes a copy of Carnegie Hill Neighbors' indispensable (374 page) book CARNEGIE HILL ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (a $25.00 value)!
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