Guide for the Few

New York, Around

Day trips from New York

A day outside the city: the Hamptons, the Hudson Valley, the coast.

A day outside the city: the Hamptons, the Hudson Valley and its houses and galleries, and the Connecticut coast.

  • A guided tour of the Pollock-Krasner House

    A docent-led tour of the 1879 house and the barn studio in Springs, East Hampton, where Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, with the floor Pollock poured his paintings on still in place.

  • A private tour of Manitoga

    A private guided tour of Dragon Rock, the house and studio the designer Russel Wright built on the ledge of an old quarry at Garrison, 50 miles north of Manhattan, and of the 75-acre woodland garden around it.

  • A private tour of Olana

    A weekday private tour for up to five people of Frederic Church's house, studio and 250-acre designed landscape above the Hudson at Hudson, New York, led by staff outside public hours.

  • A private tour of the Glass House

    A private tour of up to three hours of Philip Johnson's 49-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut: the Glass House of 1949, the Brick House, the painting and sculpture galleries and the landscape, by appointment.

  • A weekday at Storm King Art Center

    A day among large-scale sculpture and earthworks on 500 acres of hills, meadows and woods in the Hudson Valley, about an hour's drive north of Manhattan.

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