2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
12 people
English
Discover how New York City raised the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ and the ‘destroyer of worlds.’ Main features: Find out about J. Robert Oppenheimer’s early years on the west side of Manhattan. You will learn on how his unique education shaped his adulthood. Hear about the immigrant roots of the Oppenheimer family. You will discover the sites of the Manhattan Project and see the legacy left by the atomic bomb.
We will visit the premarital home of Ella Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer’s mother, to discuss J. Robert Oppenheimer’s immigrant ancestry.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will visit the site of Oppenheimer’s birth to discuss his parents’ life in New York.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will visit the former home of Edwin R. A. Seligman to discuss Oppenheimer’s education at the Ethical Culture School.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will visit the Clarendon, the former home of William Randolph Hearst, who was the talk of Oppenheimer’s childhood neighborhood and had ties with the world leaders who would be forever connected by WWII and Oppenheimer.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will visit the childhood home of J. Robert Oppenheimer to discuss his childhood and adolescence.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Visitors will learn about the history of Riverside Drive that coincided with Oppenheimer’s formative years.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will visit the Master Apartments to discuss FDR’s New Deal and the various ideologies of that era that prospered and informed Oppenheimer as a young man.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will look at the Shinran Statue to discuss the cause and the effect of the atomic bomb.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will visit the home of Isidor Rabi, a pioneer in 20th-century physics, a Nobel Prize winner, and a close friend of Oppenheimer.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
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