Upcoming Walks, Talks and Adult Workshops

All programs meet at the Visitor Center inside the Cathedral. For reservations call the Public Education & Visitor Services Department at (212) 932-7347.

Highlight Tours
Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am and 1 pm; Sunday, 2 pm when no Spotlight Tour . Tours last approx. 1 hour.
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and magnificently restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. No prior reservation necessary. $5 per person, $4 per student/senior. All Highlights tours meet for registration at the Visitor Center inside the Cathedral entrance, at 112 Street & Amsterdam Avenue. For further information call the Public Education & Visitor Services Department at (212) 932-7347.

Vertical Tours
Saturdays, 12 noon & 2 pm. Tours last approx. 1 hour.
Climb 124 feet through spiral stone staircases to the top of the Cathedral. Get a look at the huge scale of the nave restoration and study the grand architecture while standing on a buttress. The tour culminates on the roof with a wonderful view of the Morningside Heights area of Manhattan. Space is limited to 10 people, and reservations are recommended. Bring a flashlight. $15 per person; $10 per student/senior. All Vertical tours meet for registration at the Visitor Center inside the Cathedral entrance, at 112 Street & Amsterdam Avenue. Please call in advance as tours may be suspended due to Cathedral cleaning and restoration. For reservations and further information call the Public Education & Visitors Services Department at (212) 932-7347.

Spotlight Tours Register at the Visitor Center inside the Cathedral. For further information call the Public Education & Visitor Services Department at (212) 932-7347. $10 per person; $8 per student/senior. Tours last approx. 1 hour.   Brilliant Walls of Light: Spotlight on Nave Windows III – Labor & Leisure Sunday, September 7, 2 p.m.–3 p.m. Celebrate Labor Day and the end of Summer with a tour that focuses on what we do and how we play. Join Senior Cathedral Guide John Simko to view artists and craftsmen in the Arts and Labor bays and ancient and modern athletes in the Sports Bay. See a medieval sawyer and a modern steelworker, Dante and Donatello, pugilists and pool cues.   Gateway to the New Jerusalem: Spotlight on the Iconography of the West Front Sunday, September 28, 2 p.m.–3 p.m. The west front is the architectural equivalent of an overture, an exposition of the themes developed within the main body of the Cathedral. The tour introduces the interplay of modern and medieval motifs in the sculpture of John Angel and Simon Verity. Led by Senior Cathedral Guide, Tom Fedorek.   The Stained Glass Menagerie: Spotlight on Animals Sunday, October 5, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. Celebrate the Feast of St. Francis with with a tour focusing on the vast diversity of animal life that populates the windows and stones of the Cathedral. Senior Cathedral Guide John Simko helps you find a frog, an ape, and wolly mammoth, lean about the birds and the bees, and discover a saint riding on the back of a crocodile.