Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
Walking Tour: Hudson Yards and the HighLine Built over Penn Station’s 1911 train yard, Hudson Yards is the city’s newest master-planned, mixed-use development. See the completed Phase I, opened in 2019, and the controversial art installation, the Vessel. Then head up to the High Line, once an elevated freight railroad and now a 1.45-mile public park with views of historical sites, swanky apartment buildings, and art installations. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Farley Post Office and Penn Station's New Moynihan Train Hall“). Thursday, May 9 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12549 • $50
Walking Tour: Financial District Visit the Financial District (FiDi) and some of the most historic sites of Manhattan. Travel the cobbles of Stone Street, see Trinity Church and its graveyard where Alexander Hamilton is buried, step inside Federal Hall, a national memorial on the site of the former City Hall, the 1703 building where George Washington gave his inaugural speech, touch Manhattan’s oldest fence that dates back to the late eighteenth century, and so much more. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Farley Post Office and Penn Station's New Moynihan Train Hall“). Thursday, May 23 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12550 • $50
Walking Tour: Gilded Age Mansions of Carnegie Hill The swath of property that Andrew Carnegie purchased on Fifth Avenue at 90th Street was considered the boonies at that time – too far uptown from the acceptable social center. But, of course, where Carnegie goes, others follow. Visit Carnegie’s house, now the Cooper Hewitt Museum, as well as other turn-of-the-century mansions built by the Whitney, Vanderbilt, Post, Huntington, and Rockefeller dynasties, with a stop at the Warburg Mansion, now home of the Jewish Museum. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Farley Post Office and Penn Station's New Moynihan Train Hall“). Thursday, June 6 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12552 • $50
Walking Tour: Astor Place and the East Village
Named after John Jacob Astor, Astor Place was once a wealthy residential enclave for the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Delanos. Later, it became a cultural and educational center as the home of Cooper Union and the Public Theater (formerly the Astor Library). Learn the history of Astor Place and the sites nearby: Grace Church, McSorley’s Pub, the Hamilton Fish House (aka the Stuyvesant Fish House), and the Merchant House. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Farley Post Office and Penn Station's New Moynihan Train Hall“). Thursday, July 11 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12548 • $50
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