{"title": "Women of Emanu-El: Gilded Age Tour", "start": "2026-11-12T06:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Temple Emanuel", "address": "Benedict Avenue 2000, 10462", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gilded-age"], "description": "Women of Emanu-El: Gilded Age Tour is a walking tour through the Upper East Side of Manhattan, led by historian Bradley Shaw, from the Plaza Hotel on 59th Street to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 82nd Street. It explores how the so-called \"Captains of Industry,\" or robber barons, such as Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan, flaunted their wealth with opulent mansions near Fifth Avenue and Central Park. It also highlights prominent Jewish Gilded Age families, including the Adlers, Guggenheims, Pulitzers, Strauses, and Warburgs, who built grand homes on the Upper East Side. Many mansions survived only until the 1930s, when apartment buildings replaced them, though some still stand; an optional lunch follows the tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/women-of-emanu-el-gilded-age-tour-114043/", "official_url": "https://emanuelnyc.org/calendar/women-of-emanu-el-gilded-age-tour/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bce2b79be49b2529d07eef1cd08d81094c7328b106b762dc82fce1d564a70fc6-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T06:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Temple Emanuel", "address": "Benedict Avenue 2000, 10462", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Grand Exhibition of Classical and Historical Fencing", "start": "2026-11-15T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Saint Ann's and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church", "address": "Montague Street 157, 11201", "price": "$10 – $15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/gilded-age", "sport/martial-arts"], "description": "The Grand Exhibition of Classical and Historical Fencing is an exhibition of cultural artifacts paired with live demonstrations of fencing and a talk of anecdotes from important fencing events. It takes the audience back to the Gilded Age in New York City, when the Brooklyn Bridge first opened, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled, the Waldorf Astoria and Carnegie Hall opened, and the New York Public Library was founded, and wealthy families such as the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers shaped the city's growth, making fencing a fashionable pastime. It looks at the equipment of the era, such as foils, gloves, masks, and jackets sold at stores like Peck and Snyder, Spalding, and J.H. Lau & Co., and at how growing interest in sports for health led many women to take up the art and science. The public is cordially invited to attend, and doors open at 2:15pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/grand-exhibition-of-classical-and-historical-fencing-55512/", "official_url": "https://www.stannholytrinity.org/event/grand-exhibition-of-classical-and-historical-fencing/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ace91bd56501400bd6cb9484d05ed28624a0cce69420900d860643617567c7e7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sailor's Snug Harbor Historical Tour", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T14:30:00-05:00", "place": "Snug Harbor", "address": "", "price": "$10 & Under", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "Sailor's Snug Harbor Historical Tour is a guided walking tour of the Snug Harbor campus in New York City, meeting at the Visitor Info Booth at Chapel Road and Gazebo Road and lasting 1:00-2:30 PM. It is run by Snug Harbor, whose tour explores the rich history of its 19th-century campus and the architecture that made it an irreplaceable architectural collection, featuring six of the first 40 New York City landmarks. Snug Harbor is described as one of the largest ongoing adaptive reuse projects in America, and the tour covers its landmarked structures. General admission is $10.00, with a 10% discount for Snug Harbor members.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sailors-snug-harbor-historical-tour-77028/", "official_url": "https://snug-harbor.org/event/sailors-snug-harbor-historical-tour-3/?slot_id=20029", "image": ""}, {"title": "Public Walking Tour- Chinatown: A Walk through History", "start": "2026-11-07T11:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "$25/adult, $20/adult 55 & up, $20/student (with valid ID), free for children under 5; $15/MyMOCA mem", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/new-york"], "description": "A guided walking tour through Chinatown, one of New York City's oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods. It is offered by the Museum of Chinese in America and shows how everyday buildings and places of historical significance reflect and shape a community, tracing the area from the Native American Lenape village of Werpoes Hill to today's Chinatown. Stops include Chinatown's oldest streets, a bustling neighborhood park and a Catholic church with layered histories, its oldest general store, and a Chinese eatery that served the turn-of-the-century \"bachelor society.\" The tour lasts about ninety minutes, covers one to one and a half miles, leaves from the museum's lobby, is capped at 15 participants, and tickets include museum admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/public-walking-tour-chinatown-a-walk-through-history-54049/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/public-walking-tour-chinatown-a-walk-through-history-14-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/648089b32f776d31f65cfdbb00aed4075522ceaae7a3c3b43094d7cb22ff10b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Guided Tours", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Guided Tours are walking tours through Historic Richmond Town, a historic site of restored buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries on Staten Island. Led by expert Historical Interpreters, the tours include the 1820s Village Life Tour, exploring taverns, trades like basket making and broom making, and an 1820s kitchen, and the Two Centuries Tour, a survey of Staten Island from a 1640s Native Encampment through the Revolutionary era to slavery and emancipation in the 1820s. Each tour lasts 75 minutes and also includes admission to the Historical Museum, open 11am to 4pm on the day of the visit. The tour covers uneven ground and is not recommended for visitors with mobility issues.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/guided-tours-66593/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a097030439265b7461a69161ca8d3c2c78becaa2edc6256c3cf503ce98760a28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Tour: Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning", "start": "2026-11-05T12:15:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/art-collection", "history/jewish-history"], "description": "A 45-minute guided gallery tour through the newly reimagined Third Floor Galleries, meeting in the elevator lobby of Floor 3. The tour is led by the Jewish Museum's docents and explores 'Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning.' The exhibition features more than 200 works in a thematic and chronologically integrated presentation of the Museum's holdings. The tour is included with Museum Admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-tour-identity-culture-and-community-stories-from-the-75689/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110226-novdec-open-tours-identity-culture-and-community/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98eb346b1520d8a508db17b02bf88ae17cb64701622cdf930a99a852b930bebf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Seneca Village Tour", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Mariner's Gate: West 85th St. and Central Park West", "address": "West 85th St. and Central Park West", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/black-history"], "description": "Seneca Village Tour is a 90-minute walking tour, about 0.78 miles long, through the area of Central Park from West 82nd to West 89th Street. It is offered by the Central Park Conservancy, the nonprofit that has cared for Central Park since 1980. Before the Park was built, this area was home to Seneca Village, the largest community of African-American property owners in New York. The tour starts at Mariner's Gate at West 85th St. and Central Park West.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/seneca-village-tour-51779/", "official_url": "https://www.centralparknyc.org/activities/tours/seneca-village-tour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2d8891a89a5cd37b03cb6f79e8f8ee23ed47527a4cc6b058f27a874330f5f863-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lessons in Leadership: An Evening with Distinguished Emanu-El Members", "start": "2026-11-12T13:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Temple Emanu-El", "address": "East 65th Street 1", "price": "$36 for guests; complimentary for temple members", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/business"], "description": "Temple Emanu-El hosts a panel evening where accomplished temple members share lessons from their careers. The fall lineup features moderator David Hennes of Ropes and Gray, Emily Essner of Saks, Diana Pessin of BritBox, and Michael Streicker of Sentinel Real Estate. Guests can mingle with the speakers over wine and cheese, with a dessert reception to follow. Attendance is complimentary for temple members, guests pay $36, and advance registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lessons-in-leadership-an-evening-with-distinguished-emanu-el-114012/", "official_url": "https://emanuelnyc.org/calendar/an-evening-with-distinguished-emanu-el-members/?occurrence=2026-11-12&", "image": "https://noky.io/images/56fab65d26e1396536b9cf85073236ae61a49f837889116e05b7a23aaeb7321f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tour the Building with a Docent, November (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/new-york", "literature/libraries"], "description": "Join a docent-led tour that steps out of the city's hustle and into history, exploring the gallery and the architectural wonders of the Library's landmark 1917 building. The New York Society Library hosts these tours in connection with its exhibition 'Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country,' which celebrates the United States' 250th anniversary and explores how a public library and a nascent democracy converged in New York City. Tours begin at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 PM, and visitors meet their docent guide in the first-floor public Reference Room, to the right as they enter. The event is free of charge and open to the public on a drop-in basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-the-building-with-a-docent-november-2-4-pm-on-the-half-105144/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/tour-building-docent-november-2-4-pm-half-hour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c4561d354af77449b1ec93f426289ca85eaec9df4cdcc39b3a0ec29cc2a835f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Public Tours", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "Wyckoff House Museum", "address": "Clarendon Road 5816", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "Public Tours offers guided visits of the Wyckoff House, said to be New York's oldest house, on Saturday tour hours. The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum runs the tours, with the park grounds and garden open and guided house tours starting each hour from 11:30 AM. Visitors are guided through three furnished rooms reflecting periods from the 17th-century Dutch Colonial Era to the early 19th century. A 11:30 AM 'Family Style' Tour is well-suited for young historians, and afterwards guests can rest in the garden or on the covered patio.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/public-tours-57573/", "official_url": "https://wyckoffmuseum.org/event/public-tours-12/2026-10-31/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e48e93e21f6521387fe52e2172ea287994f9109dc9869f8080d27127e4e3d5d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "'Credit to the Nation': Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and American Banking", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Park Avenue Synagogue", "address": "East 87th Street 50, 10128", "price": "", "price_from": "360.00", "price_to": "375.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history"], "description": "A class at Park Avenue Synagogue exploring a lost chapter in New York, Jewish, and banking history: how Eastern European Jewish immigrants transformed American banking. Taught by Dr. Rebecca Kobrin, the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University and author of 'Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930'. Beyond Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, it looks at how these immigrants financed the immigration, real estate, and banking systems that still power New York. It is part of a class series with sessions on October 20 and November 3 and 10, held on 87th Street and online.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/credit-to-the-nation-eastern-european-jewish-immigrants-and-79455/", "official_url": "https://pasyn.org/events/2026-27/adult-engagement/october/credit-to-the-nation-eastern-european-jewish-immigrants-and-american-banking/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab149a2e1ad1c41a5ae9846d707c8242bf3d0e2df765ae90a198da6c2a45faa6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "\"Bowne Around Towne\" Flushing Walking Tour", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "John Bowne House", "address": "Bowne Street 37-01, 11354", "price": "$20 General; $15 Member of BHHS", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A guided walking tour of Flushing sites connected to the Bowne family, who were among the first European settlers of the area in the 1650s and lived in the same home for nine generations. It is organized by the John Bowne House, whose family members fought for religious freedom in the 1660s and later supported Quaker pacifism and the anti-slavery movement. The roughly one-mile route stops at places including the Bowne House, the Fox Oaks Stone, Flushing Town Hall, the Flushing Friends Meeting House, and the Weeping Beech Tree, showing where the family lived, worshipped, and worked. Visitors should bring comfortable walking shoes and a bottle of water, and the walk ends at Bowne House, now the only Queens site on the National Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bowne-around-towne-flushing-walking-tour-53310/", "official_url": "https://www.bownehouse.org/events/save-the-date-bowne-around-towne-flushing-walking-tour-hzyeg-l8sc4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/628c45065e4c327db9d704080266d03c59ce2ba82f6b76f0dd57d40b104331e2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Tour: Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum", "start": "2026-11-09T12:15:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "Included with Museum Admission", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A 45-minute gallery tour of the newly reimagined Third Floor Galleries at the Jewish Museum. Led by the Museum's docents, it explores Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, an exhibition of more than 200 works presented thematically and chronologically from the Museum's holdings. Tours meet in the elevator lobby of Floor 3. The tour is included with Museum Admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-tour-identity-culture-and-community-stories-from-the-75695/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110926-novdec-open-tours-identity-culture-and-community/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98eb346b1520d8a508db17b02bf88ae17cb64701622cdf930a99a852b930bebf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Stockholm Street Walking Tour", "start": "2026-11-14T13:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Greater Ridgewood Historical Society", "address": "Flushing Avenue", "price": "$15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A walking tour exploring local history and the unique architecture of Stockholm Street in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC's smallest Historic District. It is run by the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society. The group meets at the Onderdonk Avenue gate of the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, and the tour takes place rain or shine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stockholm-street-walking-tour-52936/", "official_url": "https://onderdonkhouse.org/events-list/stockholm1126", "image": "https://noky.io/images/447f7c156f1d5cf1cae1dd1ad15ce377e04239c12dd2797595d6900901d03972-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Empire City: Discover New York City's Hidden History + Wine Tasting", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["food-drink/wine", "history/new-york"], "description": "A museum tour at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum paired with a historically-inspired wine tasting, marking the 200th anniversary of the hotel's opening. The tour covers New York City's rise after the Erie Canal opened in October 1825, highlighting the new exhibition The Empire City Begins. It ends in the Tavern with a tasting of four to five contemporary New York wines led by a WSET-certified docent, with light refreshments served. Attendees must be 21.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-wine-54014/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-wine-tasting/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f647f5502dc216d91fab38ab371b14afe169138cb56efc39f9c91055beb93a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Indigenous Central Park Tour", "start": "2026-11-14T10:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Central Park Conservancy", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/indigenous-peoples/north-america", "nature/parks"], "description": "The Indigenous Central Park Tour is a guided walk through the lesser-traveled areas of Central Park's wooded north end. It is run by the Central Park Conservancy and explores the past, present, and future of indigenous presence in the park's landscapes. Before Europeans arrived, the land was part of an ecosystem the Lenape people still call home, and the tour uncovers vestiges of their presence. Through native flora and fauna, it also references contemporary indigenous relationships with the land.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/indigenous-central-park-tour-51780/", "official_url": "https://www.centralparknyc.org/activities/tours/indigenous-central-park-tour", "image": ""}, {"title": "Underground NYC Tour: Subway 101", "start": "2026-11-12T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T12:30:00-05:00", "place": "New York Transit Museum", "address": "Schermerhorn Street 99, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "$30", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art", "history/new-york"], "description": "Underground NYC Tour: Subway 101 is a guided walking tour through the New York City subway system, visiting 3-4 publicly accessible stations and ending at the New York Transit Museum with its 1936 decommissioned subway station and vintage train cars. It is run by expert guides from the New York Transit Museum, a source for stories about New York's transportation. Along the way the tour explores the secrets of the subway, looks at art and architecture, and shows exclusive archival images from the Museum's collection. The roughly 90-minute tour departs from Astor Place and includes museum admission; apart from the ticket, two MetroCard swipes or OMNY taps are required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/underground-nyc-tour-subway-101-81387/", "official_url": "https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/program/underground-11-12/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/082e37a83c2188d92ec27be41d66db59a2ffe74f6c62f2673423e9b2862054b0-2000.webp"}]}