Friday, October 2, 2026, 11am​

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Hosted by The New York Adventure Club

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While New York City's hotels of the modern era are geared for domestic and international visitors, that wasn't always the case. Hotels built in the 19th and 20th centuries were originally erected as permanent residences for the richest New Yorkers, who were looking to downsize from their palatial mansions on Fifth Avenue into 'apartment hotels' filled with top-of-the-line accommodations. It's time to explore the luxurious and sumptuous hotels east of Central Park that welcomed the highest echelon of visitors, along with a fair share of drama and debauchery.

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Lucie Levine of Archive on Parade joins New York Adventure Club to explore the grand hotels of New York's Upper East Side that redefined luxury in the city, pivoting Gotham from Gilded Age mansions of the 19th century to glittering skyscrapers of the 20th century.

 

Friday, October 9, 2026, 11am​​

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Hosted by the New York Adventure Club​

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While West 57th Street in Manhattan today is known for being New York City's "Billionaires’ Row" — thanks to its collection of super-tall towers for super-rich residents — it was once the city's main arts and culture hub. But how exactly did this small stretch of Midtown become one of the most prominent centers for the arts throughout the world? And what art institutions still exist today? From artist studios and concert halls to dance conservatories and literary clubs, it's time to explore the history of one of New York’s preeminent cultural corridors.

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Lucie Levine of Archive on Parade joins New York Adventure Club to explore the artistic legacy and last vestiges of New York City's Artists' Alley — a collection of artistic institutions, organizations, and venues that once lined Manhattan's West 57th Street from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries.

 

Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 6pm​

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Co-Hosted by FRIENDS of the Upper East Side and Village Preservation

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Join FRIENDS and Village Preservation for a virtual tour exploring the remarkable history and architecture of New York City’s historic tenements.

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Often dismissed as eyesores, tenements are an essential part of the city’s architectural and cultural heritage. They reflect generations of immigrant and working-class life and, contrary to popular perception, often feature elaborate ornamentation, innovative design, and influences ranging from ethnic traditions to the grand architectural styles of their time.

 

Andrew Berman, Executive Director of Village Preservation, and Lucie Levine, historian and researcher for FRIENDS of the Upper East Side, will explore notable tenements across the East and South Villages and Yorkville. They’ll share the stories behind these buildings, the communities that shaped them, and the ongoing efforts to document and preserve them. The program will also examine the challenges and successes of historic preservation and why protecting these buildings remains especially relevant today, as New York continues to grapple with housing affordability and development.

 

Sunday, October 18, 2026, 11am​

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** This is an Archive on Parade SOURCED Tour! SOURCED Tours include a hand-selected a set of special archival materials sent to each tour participant one week in advance of the tour!**

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Before New York’s tallest towers were sheathed in glass, they were clad in clay. Terra-Cotta, or “fired earth,” is an ancient building material made of baked clay, that helped make New York a Modern city.

 

At the turn of the 20th century, terra- cotta became a sought-after fire-proof skin for the steel skeletons of the city’s tallest buildings. Though you’ll find it on some of New York’s most iconic structures, including the Flatiron Building, The Woolworth Building, and the Plaza Hotel, terra-cotta often hides in plain
sight, mimicking other materials like granite or carved wood.

 

On this tour of Lower Manhattan, we’ll uncover some of city’s earliest terra-cotta structures, and find out how New York got fired up about fired earth. Along the way, we’ll see the tallest terra-cotta structure in the world, find out how the nephews of Samuel Morse commissioned the city’s earliest surviving “fireproof” sky-scraper, and learn how this stunningly versatile material moved from monochrome to multi-colored, and helped shift the city from Beaux-Arts beauty to Art Deco splendor!

 

Sunday, October 25, 2026, 11am​

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** This is an Archive on Parade SOURCED Tour! SOURCED Tours include a hand-selected a set of special archival materials sent to each tour participant one week in advance of the tour!**

Brooklyn is Kings County, and DUMBO, the waterfront neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges lives up to the name.

 

Kings of DUMBO include Joshua and Comfort Sands, the 18th Century power brokers who laid DUMBOs Streets; Robert Fulton whose steam ferry spanned the river and built the borough; John Arbuckle the coffee roasting revolutionary whose DUMBO plant roasted more coffee than any other place in the world; Robert Gair, the cardboard box impresario who built so much of DUMBO’s industrial architecture that the neighborhood became known as Gairville, and David Walentas, the real estate developer who bought so much of that industrial architecture in 1981 that in the decades since, he has been able to almost single-handedly shape the neighborhood.

 

This walking tour traces the building and rebuilding of DUMBO. As we uncover the neighborhood’s exceptional industrial history, explore its spectacular examples of architectural adaptive-reuse, and situate modern DUMBO within the larger story of New York’s reclamation of its post-industrial waterfront, we’ll consider the way the Kings of the Waterfront each consciously sought to shape this place, and ask, how does a neighborhood get made?