Free Walking Sightseeing Tours in New York, United States

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Explore New York in United States with one of our free walking tours. Click on a marker on the map to get started and view details about the tour. Below is an overview of the sightseeing tours. A total of 30 tours are available in New York, United States.

Activities in New YorkIndividual Sights in New York
Price 0$
Languages English
Duration 2h 15min
Reviews 5/5 stars, 63 ratings

Free Lower East Side History Tour
Join Alex on a Lower East Side walking tour through a neighborhood once spanning Canal to present day 14th Street. We'll discuss its history, from wealthy farmland, to tenement filled slums, and...
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Languages English, Spanish
Duration 2h
Reviews 5/5 stars, 61 ratings

Free tour "The best views of the Manhattan skyline", New York
Do you want to have the best panoramic view of New York , the city of skyscrapers? Take this Free Tour to Hoboken, New Jersey . Hoboken, NJ is known as New York's "6th District" due to its...
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Languages English
Duration 2h
Reviews 5/5 stars, 6 ratings

NYC Movie & TV Show Tour!
This is a tour showing where iconic movies and TV shows have been shot throughout the city! Check out iconic film and TV set locations shot throughout downtown Manhattan in 2 hours: Are you...
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Languages English
Duration 2h 15min
Reviews 4.9/5 stars, 139 ratings

Free Harlem History Tour
Join Alex on a Harlem history tour and follow the neighborhood from the American Revolution to the Harlem Renaissance, and beyond. We’ll learn how the area transitioned from German, Jewish, and...
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Languages English
Duration 2h 15min
Reviews 4.9/5 stars, 138 ratings

Free Brooklyn Heights History Tour
Join Alex on a Brooklyn Heights history tour to learn all about America’s oldest suburb. We’ll discuss the area’s past, from Dutch farmland to one of New York’s most elegant neighborhoods. We’ll...
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Languages English
Duration 2h 30min
Reviews 4.9/5 stars, 88 ratings

Free Queens History and Food Tour
Experience the real New York City by joining Alex on a walking tour through Jackson Heights and Corona, Queens. We’ll discuss the history of Queens, its relationship to NYC’s subways and bridges,...
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Languages English
Duration 2h
Reviews 4.9/5 stars, 78 ratings

Free Chinatown and Little Italy History Tour
Join Alex on a stroll through Chinatown and Little Italy, where we’ll discuss 400 years of immigration in America. We’ll also talk about the early history of Manhattan, and learn how these...
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Languages English
Duration 2h 30min
Reviews 4.9/5 stars, 11 ratings

Tour Some of the Hottest Art Galleries in New York City!
Tour today's finest art galleries in West Chelsea and The Meat Packing District! Explore Downtown Manhattan's Hottest Art Galleries in less than 2 hours: Are you curious to tour some of the...
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Languages English, Spanish
Duration 2h 30min
Reviews 4.8/5 stars, 42 ratings

Brooklyn Bridge Local Tour and Dumbo / Indigenous history / Collect pond/ Cityhall/ brooklyn history/ secret of Dumbo .
Brooklyn Bridge local tour . We will start in Collect Pond , place used for the natives as center of rituals. We start tour exploring all the Natives history walking dot the old lake call Collect...
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Languages English
Duration 2h 15min
Reviews 4.8/5 stars, 6 ratings

Free Coney Island History and Food Tour
Join Alex on a Coney Island walking tour and learn the history of America’s Playground. We’ll visit attractions like the Wonder Wheel, the Cyclone, the Parachute Jump, and the Coney Island...
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Self-guided Tour #1

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Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 0.8 km
Ascend 22 m
Descend 12 m

  • Chinese Scholar’s Garden
  • Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
  • Staten Island Children’s Museum
  • Staten Island Museum
  • Music Hall
Details for Tour #1 in New York

Self-guided Tour #2

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Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 1.3 km
Ascend 5 m
Descend 13 m

  • Paula Cooper Gallery
  • Hales Gallery
  • Kurimanzutto Gallery
  • David Zwirner
  • Little Island
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Self-guided Tour #3

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Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 1.7 km
Ascend 20 m
Descend 13 m

  • Queens Museum
  • Unisphere
  • Queens Theater
  • Westinghouse Time Capsules
  • Congregation Tifereth Israel
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Self-guided Tour #4

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Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 3.4 km
Ascend 69 m
Descend 56 m

  • Prospect Park Zoo
  • Site of the Dongan Oak
  • James Stranahan
  • Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch
  • John F. Kennedy Memorial
  • Bailey Fountain
  • Mount Prospect Park
  • Brooklyn Museum
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Details for Tour #4 in New York

Self-guided Tour #5

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 3 km
Ascend 40 m
Descend 64 m

  • Captain Tilly Park
  • Jamaica Muslim Center
  • Iglesia ACM de Queens
  • Tabernacle of Prayer
  • Jamaica Performing Arts Center
  • King Manor Museum
  • Gufa Shiv Bhagat- Baba Balak Nath Temple
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Self-guided Tour #6

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8.5 km
Ascend 248 m
Descend 241 m

  • Central Synagogue
  • Charles Scribner's Sons Building
  • Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
  • Duffy Square
  • Booth Theatre
  • Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
  • Broadhurst Theatre
  • Bryant Park
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Golda Meir
  • Candler Building
  • Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael
  • West Side Jewish Center
  • St. Michael's Church
  • Church of the Holy Apostles
  • Chelsea Park
  • Berry Campbell Gallery
  • Dia Chelsea
  • Church of the Guardian Angel
  • David Zwirner
Details for Tour #6 in New York

Self-guided Tour #7

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 7.5 km
Ascend 204 m
Descend 208 m

  • Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary
  • Daily News Building
  • Ford Foundation
  • Chrysler Building
  • Church of the Incarnation
  • Empire State Building
  • Church of the Transfiguration
  • Eternal Light Flagstaff
  • Flatiron Building
  • Fotografiska
  • Church of the Epiphany
  • Calvary Church
  • George Washington
  • First Presbyterian Church
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Gay Street
  • Gay Liberation Monument
Details for Tour #7 in New York

Self-guided Tour #8

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 295 m
Descend 288 m

  • Circle Line
  • Intrepid Museum
  • Hells Kitchen Park
  • DeWitt Clinton Park
  • Damrosch Park
  • Metropolitan Opera House
  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  • David H. Koch Theater
  • Dante Alighieri
  • David Geffen Hall
  • Reclining Figure
  • Church of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Giuseppe Verdi Monument
  • First Baptist Church
  • Holy Trinity Church
  • The Jewish Center
  • Congregation Rodeph Sholom
  • Hayden Planetarium
  • Central Park
  • Bow Bridge
Details for Tour #8 in New York

Self-guided Tour #9

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 8.3 km
Ascend 92 m
Descend 121 m

  • Brooklyn Bridge Park
  • Plymouth Church
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Ambrose
  • Wavertree
  • South Street Seaport
  • New York Cocoa Exchange Building
  • The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden
  • Museum of American Finance
  • Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza
  • Charging Bull
  • Bowling Green
  • Africa
  • International Mercantile Marine Company Building
  • Battery Park
  • New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  • Fort Jay
Details for Tour #9 in New York

Self-guided Tour #10

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.9 km
Ascend 358 m
Descend 357 m

  • Church of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Congregation Sherith Israel
  • Cherry Hill Fountain
  • Bethesda Fountain
  • Bow Bridge
  • Whisper Bench
  • Delacorte Theater
  • Cleopatra's Needle
  • Central Park
  • Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola
  • Brick Presbyterian Church
  • Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in New York
  • Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Church of the Heavenly Rest
  • El Museo Del Barrio
  • Burnett Memorial Fountain
  • Conservatory Garden
  • The Blockhouse
  • Crenshaw Christian Center East
  • Congregation Rodeph Sholom
Details for Tour #10 in New York

Self-guided Tour #11

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 10 km
Ascend 363 m
Descend 364 m

  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Drumgoole Plaza
  • City Hall
  • Corbin Building
  • Double Check
  • Federal Hall National Memorial
  • Fearless Girl
  • Charging Bull
  • Bowling Green
  • Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza
  • Duane Park
  • FDNY Ladder 8
  • Collect Pond Park
  • Columbus Park
  • Church of the Transfiguration
  • Most Precious Blood Church
  • Capitale
  • Museum at Eldridge Street
  • Coleman Playground
  • Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
Details for Tour #11 in New York

Self-guided Tour #12

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 8.8 km
Ascend 237 m
Descend 227 m

  • Frederick Douglass Memorial
  • Riverside Park
  • Carrere Memorial
  • Hostelling International New York City
  • Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan
  • Saint Michael's Church
  • Holy Name of Jesus Church
  • Congregation Shaare Zedek
  • Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
  • Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
  • Congregation B'nai Jeshurun
  • Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church
  • Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
  • All Angels Church
  • First Baptist Church
  • West End Collegiate Church
  • Central Park
Details for Tour #12 in New York

Self-guided Tour #13

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 9.9 km
Ascend 169 m
Descend 152 m

  • Hudson River Park
  • LentSpace
  • Duarte Square
  • Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
  • Desalvio Playground
  • Elizabeth Street Garden
  • Liz Christy Garden
  • Hare Krishna Temple
  • Colonnade row
  • Grace Church
  • George Washington
  • Independence Flagstaff
  • Classic Stage Company
  • Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
  • Le Petit Versailles
  • Hamilton Fish Park
  • John V. Lindsay East River Park
  • La Plaza Cultural
  • Immaculate Conception Church
Details for Tour #13 in New York

Self-guided Tour #14

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 10.4 km
Ascend 325 m
Descend 333 m

  • Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary
  • Church of the Epiphany
  • Calvary Church
  • Fotografiska
  • Church of the Transfiguration
  • Eternal Light Flagstaff
  • Flatiron Building
  • First Presbyterian Church
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Alexander Lyman Holley Monument
  • St. Joseph's Church
  • Comedy Cellar
  • Dahesh Museum of Art
  • Duarte Square
  • Children's Museum of the Arts
  • Church of St. Luke in the Fields
  • Pier 45
  • Galleria Ca' d'Oro
  • Church of the Guardian Angel
  • Gagosian
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Self-guided Tour #15

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Number of sights 13 sights
Distance 6.8 km
Ascend 186 m
Descend 177 m

  • Metropolitan Baptist Church
  • Apollo Theater
  • Harriet Tubman Memorial
  • Masjid Malcolm Shabazz
  • Morningside Park
  • Bellerophon Taming Pegasus
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Church of Notre Dame
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Riverside Park
  • General Grant National Memorial
  • Amiable Child Memorial
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Self-guided Tour #16

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Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 4.6 km
Ascend 90 m
Descend 77 m

  • St. Lucy's Church
  • Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
  • Unitarian Church of All Souls
  • Comic Strip Live
  • Zion Saint Mark's Church
  • Church of the Holy Trinity
  • Carl Schurz Park
  • Gracie Mansion
Details for Tour #16 in New York

Self-guided Tour #17

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 12.2 km
Ascend 440 m
Descend 421 m

  • Berry Campbell Gallery
  • Chelsea Park
  • Church of the Holy Apostles
  • St. Michael's Church
  • Candler Building
  • Broadhurst Theatre
  • Booth Theatre
  • Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
  • Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael
  • Circle Line
  • Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Broadway Theatre
  • Calvary Baptist Church
  • Christopher Columbus Monument
  • Columbus Circle
  • Damrosch Park
  • Giuseppe Mazzini
  • Central Park Carousel
  • Victor Herbert
  • Central Park
Details for Tour #17 in New York

Self-guided Tour #18

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 4.3 km
Ascend 84 m
Descend 81 m

  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Plymouth Church
  • Brooklyn Bridge Park
  • Center for Brooklyn History
  • Statue of Christopher Columbus
  • Unity
  • Quarters A
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Self-guided Tour #19

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 4.3 km
Ascend 117 m
Descend 113 m

  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Lefferts Historic House
  • Prospect Park Zoo
  • Maryland 400 Monument
  • Marquis de Lafayette Monument
  • Park Slope Jewish Center
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Self-guided Tour #20

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 14.9 km
Ascend 325 m
Descend 354 m

  • Central Park
  • Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
  • Congregation Shaare Zedek
  • Crenshaw Christian Center East
  • Holy Name of Jesus Church
  • Carrere Memorial
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Church of Notre Dame
  • Morningside Park
  • Harriet Tubman Memorial
  • Frederick Douglass Memorial
  • The Blockhouse
  • Conservatory Garden
  • Burnett Memorial Fountain
  • El Museo Del Barrio
  • Masjid Malcolm Shabazz
  • Marcus Garvey Memorial Park
  • Harlem Fire Watchtower
  • Metropolitan Baptist Church
  • Crack Is Wack
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