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To answer the demand for walking tours, they are going to be held weekly in July and August this summer. Beginning July 11, there will be a Monday Dorothy Parker Upper West Side Tour weekly at Noon. Starting on July 15 will be the 3:00 PM “Robert Benchley-Dorothy Parker Summer Friday” every Friday. Advance tickets…
The forty-ninth anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s death is Tuesday, June 7. We will be marking the occasion in New York at the Blue Bar of the Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th Street, from 5-7:00 p.m. If you can’t join us, a raise a glass or read a poem wherever you may. The 1967 front-page obituary…
Dorothy Parker loved animals, as all true fans know. So we always like to celebrate whenever the Algonquin Hotel brings out Matilda for any event, and Monday, May 16 is a good one. The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals will have a cat adoption truck parked in front of the hotel in honor of the…
Celebrate two of New York’s greatest fiction writers on a walking tour to trace their footsteps in the neighborhoods they made famous: Dorothy Parker and Dawn Powell. See their homes and haunts on a walk that begins at the landmark Algonquin Hotel and ends in Greenwich Village. The tour starts at Noon on Sunday, June…
The first public walking tour of 2016 will be on April 30 at Noon at the Algonquin Hotel. The Algonquin Round Table comes alive in the only New York walking tour devoted to the famed literary group. The 2-hour walk celebrates Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Edna Ferber, Franklin P. Adams,…
The next Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour will be on Saturday, Sept. 26, at noon. Advance tickets are onsale now, or buy them on the walk, $20 per person. The Algonquin Round Table comes alive in the only New York walking tour devoted to the famed literary group. The 2-hour walk celebrates Franklin P. Adams,…