Take a Walk With Warhol: Celebrate the Pop Icon's Birthday With a Tour of His Favorite New York City Haunts (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO - Andy Warhol moved to New Yorkfrom his native Pittsburghin 1949 and before long became one of the Big Apple?s most iconic citizens,advertising the city?s grittily experimental sensibility to the world throughworks like "Empire" and "Chelsea Girls." He was also head over heels in lovewith New York, and now it?s possible to view the city through his eyes ? justin time for what would have been his 83rd birthday, on August 6 ? with"Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks Uptown to Downtown," a newbook by Thomas Kiedrowski that traces the artist footsteps across 80 sites hedoted on. Some are no longer inexistence (others are never-realized), but most are still around ?  meaning that you can pretend to be part ofthe Factory gang, meandering around Manhattan with Andy to lunch at the Odeonin Tribeca, shop at Bloomingdale's, and attend openings at the Upper EastSide's Leo Castelli gallery.The beginnings of the book came about when friends askedKiedrowski what he wanted to do during his first visit to New York. Unlike most tourists, he didn'twant to check out Times Square or see theStatue of Liberty. Instead, he pulled out a piece of paper containing a list ofaddresses of buildings having to do with the Pop artist: the Silver Factory on East 47th Street,the White Factory at Union Square,and the townhouse on the Upper East Side whereWarhol lived with his mother. Kiedrowski eventually moved to NewYork, continuing to map out Andy's New York, and making a career out of hisobsession by offering tours to Warhol sites in the city.

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