Walking Tour: Inspired Insanity! Nikola Tesla’s Life in New York

Nikola Tesla (1857-1943) American inventor. Photograph, 1915. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s passing!

Join ProwlerNYC/Deborah Zelcer to discover the local haunts of the mad genius who brought us the Induction Motor, Current Wars, power distribution, a deluge of patents, and a fantastic deserted monument designed by the eminent architect Stanford White, meant to generate and transmit wireless power, graphic images, sounds, data and maybe even a focused DeathRay through the Aether! Backed and then deserted by the Robber Barons of the last century, Tesla’s musings, inventions and rantings predicted and gave form to our modern technological era. Join me to walk in the footsteps of this eccentric and colorful resident who left a charged impression on Our Fair City.

Tour meets at NE side of Tesla Corner, 6th Ave./W. 40th St.; ends at the New Yorker Hotel, W. 34th St./8th Ave.

Tickets MUST be purchased in advance and will not be sold day of the tour.

Nikola Tesla (1857-1943) American inventor. Photograph, 1915. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s passing!

Join ProwlerNYC/Deborah Zelcer to discover the local haunts of the mad genius who brought us the Induction Motor, Current Wars, power distribution, a deluge of patents, and a fantastic deserted monument designed by the eminent architect Stanford White, meant to generate and transmit wireless power, graphic images, sounds, data and maybe even a focused DeathRay through the Aether! Backed and then deserted by the Robber Barons of the last century, Tesla’s musings, inventions and rantings predicted and gave form to our modern technological era. Join me to walk in the footsteps of this eccentric and colorful resident who left a charged impression on Our Fair City.

Tour meets at NE side of Tesla Corner, 6th Ave./W. 40th St.; ends at the New Yorker Hotel, W. 34th St./8th Ave.

Tickets MUST be purchased in advance and will not be sold day of the tour.