A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll see the great twin-towered skyscraper apartment buildings – the Century, the Majestic and the El Dorado – and other multi-colored jazz-age fantasies of high living overlooking the park.

This tour of Tribeca, focusing on its many cast-iron wonders, is offered to newly minted members of the Victorian Society New York (the local chapter of the Victorian Society in America), founded in the kitchen of the late preservation advocate Margot Gayle. Without Margot’s efforts, Tribeca might not be the protected historic neighborhood it is today. Though the tour is by invitation only, there’s a simple way to cadge an invitation: join Victorian Society New York!

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.