West Harlem Walking Tours

Meeting Point: Steps of St John the Divine, Amsterdam Ave & 112th Street 

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Saturday, June 7th

In the 1890s this area of Manhattan was considered for the World’s Columbian Exposition only to be beaten out by Chicago.

However, in contemplating the site for the fair planners came to recognize it could be the “Acropolis of Manhattan,” and with that institutions like St John the Divine and Columbia University rushed to call it home.

Those sites and others, including Riverside Church, Riverside Park, and Grant’s Tomb with its surrounding mosaic benches, a public art project designed by Pedro Silva and Phillip Danzig.