Travel & Leisure Committee

The Travel & Leisure Committee organizes and promotes a variety of cultural and educational activities on and off the Stony Brook campus, evaluates such activities, and makes recommendations for future activities.

Previous In-Person Trips

Gracie Mansion
Radio City Music Hall
NBC Studios Tour
New York Botanical Gardens
Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The Cloisters
Museum of Jewish Heritage
New York City Center
Kykuit (John D. Rockefeller Estate)
Oheka Castle
Radio City Music Hall
Tenement Museum
Steinway & Sons Factory tour
Museum of the Moving Image

Culinary Institute of America
Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park, NY
Philadelphia International Flower Show
Cradle of Aviation Museum
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Frick Collection Museum
New York Philharmonic
Museum of Arts & Design
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

Docent led walking tours
- Central Park
- Battery Park
- Lower Manhattan

As our program went fully virtual during 2020, 2021, and part of 2022, OLLI introduced “virtual” trips which allowed our members to visit a variety of locations remotely.

Virtual Trips Recently Offered:

Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
Tour of the United Nations
New York Historical Society
Walking Tour of Soho, NY

For more information on joining the Travel & Leisure Committee, please contact the following chairperson.

Helen Emmerich

Chairperson

Email: hjemmerich@gmail.com

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