Upper East Side Psychiatry Evolution Walking Tour

Take an analytical stroll through the evolution of psychiatry on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Main Features:
Find out about the journey of psychiatry from Europe to America.
Learn about the madhouses of the metropolis.
Discover the psychoanalytic explosion that occurred in New York City.
Hear about the Sackler family’s beginnings in “valiumania.”
Peer at the psychiatric islands of the East River, the first American psychoanalytic society, and the offices, mansions, and townhouses of medical research and Freudian relations.

Meeting Point

Carl Schurz Park

East 86th Street &, East End Ave, New York, NY 10028, USA

Meet at the 87th St and East End Ave entrance to Carl Schurz Park (3 blocks east of 86th St subway Q line).

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

Upper East Side

New York City, New York

1.) John Finley Walk: East River vantage point to view Roosevelt and Wards Islands

12 minutes

Upper East Side

New York City, New York

2.) Yorkville Glockenspiel: South-west corner of 83rd St and York Ave (a mural nod to the German Yorkville neighborhood)

12 minutes

Upper East Side

New York City, New York

3.) New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute: 247 East 82nd St.

12 minutes

Upper East Side

New York City, New York

4.) East 80th St. Houses

12 minutes

Upper East Side

New York City, New York

9.) Hunter College Baker Theatre Building: Formerly the Mount Sinai Dispensary, the Neurological Institute, and the Kennedy Child Study Center: 149-151 East 67TH St

12 minutes

Park Avenue Armory

643 Park Ave, , New York City, 10065-6122, New York

10.) Park Avenue Armory: 643 Park Avenue

12 minutes

Upper East Side

New York City, New York

11.) Tillinghast House: 26 East 64th St., off Madison Ave.

12 minutes

Madison Avenue

c/o Madison Avenue Business Improvement District, 59 East 79 Street, Lower Level, New York City, New York

12.) 15-17 East 62nd St., off Madison Ave.

18 minutes