Joyce Gold History Tours of NY

09/20/2021

On Saturday the 25th Joyce Gold History Tours presents a tour of Battery Park City.

BATTERY PARK CITY — PUBLIC/PRIVATE VENTURE WITH HILLY WOODLANDS, WIDE RIVER PARK, & SURPRISING AMENITIES:
https://www.joycegoldhistorytours.com/NYC-walking-tours.html

For this we meet in front of Stuyvesant H.S. near the western edge of Chambers St at 1 PM. $25/$20/person, no reservations needed.

Schedule of historic walking tours for Summer 2021 throughout various neighborhoods in New York City that speak to the ethnic diversity of this fabulous city - all tours lead by sightseeing tour guide, Joyce Gold.

09/20/2021

As part of the week-long celebration of arts & activism in Greenwich Village called The Village Trip
on Tuesday, September 22 from 2 to 4 PM I will be leading a tour of Literary Greenwich Village. Reservations needed.
https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/salons-saloons-and-lonely-night-vigils-great-american-writers-in-greenwich-village/

Literary Walking Tour Joyce Gold explores the lives of some of the many novelists, poets, playwrights, writers of detective fiction, short stories and muck-raking exposés who found inspiration in the 19th and 20th century bohemia that was the Village. More about Joyce Gold. Photograph of Edna St Vi...

11/05/2017

Is this a good idea for NYC?

In the small fishing town of Ísafjörður, Iceland, an exciting development in road safety has just popped up - almost literally. A new pedestrian crossing has been painted that appears to be 3D by way of a cleverly-detailed optical illusion.

08/17/2017

Just read a fascinating new book, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn, by Robert P Watson. It is about the prison ship Jersey anchored in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn during the American Revolution. More people died on it, were killed on it, than on all that war's battlefields combined. I knew the general story, but the details are amazing.

02/06/2017

Liberty's Flameout

01/22/2017

Just got back from a speaking engagement on the amazing Queen Elizabeth Cunard ship. Nothing like talking about New York in the middle of the Atlantic to travelers who want to hear what you have to say. Delightful

10/07/2016

Visit to Lillian Nassau 10-6-16

At a fund-raiser for the Smith College Scholarship Fund, last evening I had the pleasure of visiting the great Lillian Nassau store on E 57th St, top retailer of Louis Comfort Tiffany products. The store’s owner Arlie Sulka, Smith ’78, and Margaret K. Hofer, Vice President and Museum Director at the New-York Historical Society spoke to us, primarily about Clara Driscoll & the “Tiffany Girls,” the 35 women who designed & created Tiffany lampshades. Fascinating.

10/07/2016

09/18/2016

Just spent a couple weeks vacationing in Malta—a visit I'd highly recommend

08/17/2016

Westfield Place shopping center opened within Santiago Calatrava's Oculus yesterday, & I was there. The huge lines were at the new Apple store—giving out "Mystery boxes," but I didn't get on line. The most moving part? There was a roped-off area with seats for relaties of those who died there on Ground Zero on 9/11. Among other things, the Oculus dramatically provides natural light to the block-long walkway between Brookfield Place & the Fulton Transit hub.

12/08/2015

12/02/2015

Took a wonderful birthday walk with Ronnye & Gladys—over the 1848 High Bridge, Manhattan's oldest, and newly opened to the public. We strolled from Manhattan to the Bronx & back without getting our feet wet. Fabulous

05/24/2015

I got a preview of the WTC1 Observation Deck a week before it opens on May 29. Here are some views from the top

05/16/2015

Thank you - The Broadsheet Daily !
http://www.ebroadsheet.com/Entries/2015/5/15_Pine_Street_School_Brings_Renowned_Historical_Tour_Guide_to_Lead_Sunday_Walk_Through_Financial_District.html

“Those weren’t the original names,” Joyce Gold, a legendary conductor of Manhattan street tours, says of three local thoroughfares named for trees: Pine, Spruce, and Cedar Streets. “During the Colonial period, and even during the American Revolution, when the British made New York their capital, mos…