Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
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“). Thursday, June 6 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12552 • $50 Walking Tour: Central Park North (Conservatory Garden, North Woods and Harlem Meer) Explore the north end of Central Park. View the North Woods, the park's most natural section with a variety of landscapes ideal for wandering. Visit the newly renovated Conservatory Garden and the gate that once adorned the mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt II. See the New Harlem Meer Center, a state-of-the-art facility that replaces and better integrates the former Lasker Rink and Pool into the landscape. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Farley Post Office“). Thursday, August 8 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12551 • $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“). Thursday, July 11 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12548 • $50
Walking Tour: Central Park West (Seneca Village, Police Precinct, Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir)
Explore the west side of Central Park, including what remains from the small, mostly African American community that occupied that land before the park’s development in the 1850s. Venture to the city’s oldest police precinct that took over the park’s nineteenth century stables. View evidence of the original foundation walls of the Croton Receiving Reservoir that was replaced by the Great Lawn, and admire Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, which was the world’s largest man-made lake at the time of its mid-nineteenth century construction. GINNY POLEMAN (see bio for “Farley Post Office“). Thursday, August 8 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12551 • $50
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