Secrets and Scandals of Middle Riverside Drive

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 sad fate of America’s first supermodel
• the mansion where William Randolph Hearst ensconced his paramour, Marion Davies
• the Drive's tallest apartment building -- with a “stupa” and a notable cornerstone
• the Drive’s only privately owned freestanding mansion (whose owner stiffed his architect)
• the site of a hidden passageway

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. Mark your calendars for Sunday, September 29, 1 pm. Meeting place:  Riverside Park and southwest corner of 86th Street.  

Date & Time

Sun, Sep 29, 2024 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Venue Details

Riverside Drive

New York, New York 10025

Stephanie Azzarone/Riverside Walks and Talks