Pepsi Cola World Headquarters

Deerfield Academy

52nd to 53rd St - between Madison and Park Avenues

Between E. 30th St. and E. 41st St., and 1st Ave. and FDR Dr.

W. 49th to W. 50th Sts., 8th to 9th Aves.

One Wilshire

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Battery Park City

Located at the northwest corner of the WTC site 

General Mills HQ

Logan International Airport

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

The Peninsula Hong Kong

Jeddah Corniche / Waterfront

Odeonsplatz

Dallas Convention Center

An architectural, urban planning and engineering firm, founded in Chicago by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings. In 1939, they were joined by engineer John Merrill.&nbsp;The firm's notable current work includes the new headquarters for The Walt Disney Company, Moynihan Train Hall and the expanded Penn Station complex,&nbsp;SOM has also designed some of the world's tallest buildings: John Hancock Center (1969, second tallest in the world when built), Willis Tower (1973, tallest in the world for over twenty years), One World Trade Center (2014, currently the seventh tallest in the world), and Burj Khalifa (2010, currently the world's tallest building).

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

This section of the tour describes how Harlem came to be the destination for many people escaping the increasingly violent racism of the turn-of-the-century South, eventually earning the status of The Capital of Black America.

World War One was an important event for Harlem, which saw many residents sent to France to fight on the front lines. Earning the nickname 'The Hellfighters' and decorated with one of France's highest honors, these soldiers returned to Harlem as heroes. But despite their sacrifices, race relations in the United States did not see any of the hoped for improvement - the post-war period in saw several vicious race riots throughout the country.

In the post-war years, Harlem became a cultural center, where important Black artists lived and worked. This period became known as the 'Harlem Renaissance'. 

Welcome to HarlemNOW's Harlem: The Capital of Black America tour. This is a recording of a walking tour given by attorney and historian James Kaplan and Olivia Kaplan in October, 2009. The tour visited various places of historical significance in central Harlem.

This section of the tour discusses the growth of Harlem from the draft riots of the Civil War to the Great Depression. First considered a German and then a Jewish neighborhood, Harlem began to see significant numbers of Black residents by the turn of the century. Instrumental to this growth were the Black churches and Black-owned realty companies battling against exclusionary housing practices in central Harlem.

This new Black "Capital" was to become the home of many organizations devoted to racial justice, such as the NAACP. 

 Barry Bergdoll, Phillip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA speaks on how the interaction between the Seagram Building, Lever House, and Tennis and Racquet Club activates the urban environment at 53rd Street and Park Avenue. 

 Architectural historian Carol Krinsky speaks about the history of Lever House. 

 Historian and lawyer James Kaplan explains the Jewish-founded financial group Goldman Sachs's contributions to the US government. The US Secretary of the Treasury for President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush were both former Chairmen of Goldman Sachs. 

 The sixth stop on the Great Crash of 1929: Tour of the Financial District is in front of the former Goldman-Sachs building and near Millennium High School. Millennium High School was the first high school built south of Fulton Street in decades, and its presence reflects the neighborhood's evolution from strictly business to more residential. At this stop, the tour guides delve into the question "Why does the market crash always seem to happen in the fall?" 

 Keith Morgan, Professor of History of Architecture, compares I. M. Pei's Harbor Towers and Rowes Wharf. 

 Keith Morgan, Professor of History of Architecture, discusses Rowes Wharf's arch and how it plays with the Boston waterfront. 

 Keith Morgan, Professor of History of Architecture, discusses the Rowes Wharf complex, which dates from the early 1980s, from Skidmore, Owens, and Merrill. 