Description
Join me for Secrets and Scandals of Middle Riverside Drive --based on my award-winning book, Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park!
Riverside Drive is best known for elegance and quiet. But behind the serene facades overlooking lush Riverside Park lie shocking tales of headline-making scandals — murders, suicides and more! — along with hidden architectural details of the homes where they happened.
Secrets and Scandals of Middle Riverside Drive tour highlights include:
- the Drive’s only privately owned freestanding villa (whose owner stiffed his architect)
- the sad fate of America’s first supermodel
- the mansion where William Randolph Hearst ensconced his paramour, Marion Davies
- the Drive's tallest apartment building -- built for a "mystic" -- with a “stupa” and a notable cornerstone
- a scandalous Gilded Age divorce, in which the chauffeur got the house
Multiple affairs, a scandalous divorce and a murder color this tour’s tales. This fact- and fun-filled walk runs from 86th Street to 107th Street. The tour lasts approximately 1 1/2 hours. Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 9, 1 pm. Meeting place: SW corner (park side) Riverside Drive and 86th Street.
Date & Time
Jul 28 - 9, 2025
Venue Details
Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10025