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Tips for Walkers
Starting point: Frick Collection.
Length: 3 miles (4.8 km).
Getting there: Take subway train
6 to 68th Street and Lexington,
then walk west (left) three blocks
to Fifth Avenue. Or take the M1,
M2, M3, or M4 bus up Madison
Avenue to 70th Street and walk
i one block west.
R e s e r v o i r o p EAST 92ND STREET restaurant at the Guggenheim
Stopping-off points: Try the
museum. Head to Café Sabarsky
EAST 93 RD STREET
MA D ISO N AV ENUE A V E N U E u Turn east on 86th Heidelberg Café and German St) for Austrian food, or try the
at the Neue Galerie (5th Ave/86th
Carl Schurz Park promenade
Heidelberg Café (2nd Ave off
EAST 91ST STREET
Yorkville
86th St) for authentic Bavarian.
Madison Avenue between 92nd
deli Schaller & Weber e for a
and 93rd has many places to eat,
Street for what is left of
dogs (179 East 86th Street).
M I L E ) P A R K 86th Street EAST 90TH ST German Yorkville – after break, or try Papaya King’s hot including Sarabeth’s, with its
excellent weekend brunch.
Bremen House w, cross
East River and Gracie Mansion
Second Avenue,
4.5.6
( M U S E U M A V E N U E Avenue is a cluster of 24 Queen
q then stop at Henderson Place r at East End
LEXINGTON AVE
Anne town houses. Carl Schurz
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0 EAST 83RD E A S T 8 6 T H E A S T 8 7 T H S T R E E T Park opposite was named for the
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M A D I S O N
city’s most prominent
A V E N U E
EAST 84TH
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German immigrant,
C E N T R A L P A R K F I F T H 7 9 PARK AVENUE EAST 82ND STREET A V E N U E t promenade atop
E A S T 8 9 T H S T R E E T

editor of Harper’s
STREET
E A S T 8 8 T H S T R E E T
S T R E E T
8
Weekly and the New

STREET
York Post. The park

E A S T
East River Drive leads
EAST 81ST
6 EAST 77TH ST EAST 80TH EAST 83RD A V E N U E r J to a view of Hell Gate,
EAST 85TH STREET
STREET F I R S T CARL where the Harlem River,
EAST 84TH STREET
77th Street 6 STREET EAST 82ND Y O R K STREET EAST END AVENUE SCHURZ Long Island Sound, and
P ARK
LEXINGTON AVENUE 7 9 T H S T R E E T STREET back of Gracie Mansion t, the o The Cooper-Hewitt Museum
4 EAST 75TH STREET A V E N U E EAST 78TH New York harbor meet. From
A V E N U E
3 STREET
the walkway you can see the

EAST 77TH
EAST 74TH STREET
1 EAST 73RD STREET T H I R D STREET mayor’s official residence. Walk Carnegie Hill
2 EAST 76TH STREET northwest on 88th Street past the Back on Fifth Avenue, turn down­
5 S E C O N D Key Church of the Holy Trinity y. Turn town past the Felix Warburg
EAST 72ND STREET
right onto Lexington Ave nue,
Walk route

EAST 71ST STREET
Museum i, and continue to
then left onto 92nd Street and Mansion of 1908, now the Jewish
EAST 75TH ST
west past two of the few wooden 91st Street and the huge Andrew
EAST 70TH STREET
EAST 74 TH ST
houses left in Manhattan u. Carnegie home, now the Cooper
EAST 69TH STREET
EAST 73RD ST
Hewitt, Smithsonian Design
Museum o. Built in 1902 in the
style of an English country manor,
it gave the area the unofficial
name of Carnegie Hill. The James
Burden House p at 7 East 91st
Street, built for Vanderbilt heiress
Adele Sloan in 1905, has a spiral
staircase under a stained­glass
skylight that was known in society
as “the stairway to heaven.” At
1 East 91st, the financier Otto
Kahn’s Italian Renaissance­style
residence was a show place with
a drive­through porch and interior
courtyard. Like the Burden
House, it is now the Convent
i Wooden houses on 92nd Street of the Sacred Heart School.
For keys to symbols see back flap
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