Free Walking Sightseeing Tours in New York, United States

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Are you ready for an unforgettable time in New York, United States? Then you've come to the right place with our sightseeing tours. Whether you prefer a guided free walking tour with insider knowledge or enjoy the freedom of a self-guided route, you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Click on a tour and find out more about the highlights that await you!

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Languages English, Spanish
Duration 2h
Reviews 5/5 stars, 70 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 15min
Reviews 5/5 stars, 68 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 30min
Reviews 5/5 stars, 4 ratings

Queens Historic District and Gastronomic Tour in Jackson Heights, The Most Diverse Neighborhood in the World.
Welcome to the best tour of Queens, in the heart of the most diverse neighborhood in the world, Jackson Heights, with more than 180 languages ​​in a single neighborhood. Let yourself be carried...
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Languages English
Duration 1h 45min
Reviews 5/5 stars, 3 ratings

Roosevelt Island: A Vacation for the Mind
Roosevelt Island: Manhattan's Australia. Years ago, Manhattan sent their psychos and criminals over to Roosevelt Island (aka Blackwell's Island, aka Welfare Island, aha Hog's Island). There was a...
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Languages English
Duration 2h 15min
Reviews 4.9/5 stars, 158 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, 147 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, 96 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, Spanish
Duration 2h 30min
Reviews 4.7/5 stars, 1507 ratings

VIP Financial District Stroll: Walk Through Time, Live History, and Explore Hidden Marvels
🗽A Captivating Journey Through Lower Manhattan in the financial district : Unveiling the Heartbeat of the City Embark on a Journey of Discovery through Lower Manhattan: 🏙️ A Walking Tour like No...
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Languages English, Spanish
Duration 2h 30min
Reviews 4.7/5 stars, 468 ratings

🌿Connect with Central Park's Soul🌲 - Dive into an Exclusive Nature Tour!
📸🌿Connect with Central Park's Soul🌲 - Dive into an Exclusive Nature Tour! Get ready to be enchanted as our empathetic guides open the gates to Central Park's hidden treasures, exposing a side...
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Languages English, Spanish
Duration 2h 30min
Reviews 4.7/5 stars, 127 ratings

MIDMANHATTAN, Skyscrapers, Millionaires and Famous People
Midtown Adventure - Between Millionaires, Skyscrapers and Celebrities. Welcome to the tour that will immerse you in the majesty of the heart of Manhattan, exploring its iconic skyscrapers and...
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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
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Self-guided Tour #2

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 1.2 km
Ascend 0 m
Descend 0 m

  • Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza
  • Bowling Green
  • Africa
  • International Mercantile Marine Company Building
  • Skyscraper Museum
  • Battery Park
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Self-guided Tour #3

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 5.2 km
Ascend 35 m
Descend 59 m

  • Moynihan Train Hall
  • Berry Campbell Gallery
  • Morgan Lehman Gallery
  • Pace Gallery
  • Marlborough Gallery
  • Gagosian
  • Luhring Augustine Gallery
  • Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • Lisson Gallery
  • Lightship Frying Pan
  • Matthew Marks Gallery
  • Hauser & Wirth
  • Dia Chelsea
  • Yancey Richardson Gallery
  • Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
  • Tina Kim Gallery
  • 303 Gallery
  • Paula Cooper Gallery
  • Little Island
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Self-guided Tour #4

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.2 km
Ascend 325 m
Descend 344 m

  • Rubin Museum of Art
  • Jackson Square Park
  • Little Island
  • David Zwirner
  • Kurimanzutto Gallery
  • Hales Gallery
  • Jack Shainman Gallery
  • Galleria Ca' d'Oro
  • Gagosian
  • Church of the Guardian Angel
  • Kasmin Gallery
  • Chelsea Park
  • Church of the Holy Apostles
  • Magnet Theater
  • Madison Square Garden
  • Moynihan Train Hall
  • Herald Square
  • Koreatown
  • Hotel Wolcott
  • Marble Collegiate Church
  • Museum of Sex
  • General Worth Monument
  • Madison Square Park
  • Church of the Incarnation
  • The Morgan Library & Museum
  • Joseph Raphael De Lamar House
  • Church of Our Saviour
  • Pershing Square
  • Grand Central Terminal
  • Chrysler Building
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Self-guided Tour #5

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.2 km
Ascend 268 m
Descend 282 m

  • Dahesh Museum of Art
  • New York City Fire Museum
  • Children's Museum of the Arts
  • Church of St. Luke in the Fields
  • Hess Triangle
  • Greenwich Village
  • Gay Liberation Monument
  • Gay Street
  • St. Joseph's Church
  • Comedy Cellar
  • Judson Memorial Church
  • Alexander Lyman Holley Monument
  • New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
  • Church of the Ascension
  • First Presbyterian Church
  • Metronome
  • George Washington
  • Independence Flagstaff
  • Gramercy Park
  • Calvary Church
  • Fotografiska
  • Gramercy Theatre
  • Met Life Tower
  • Madison Square Park
  • Madison Square Fountain
  • Eternal Light Flagstaff
  • General Worth Monument
  • Rubin Museum of Art
  • Jackson Square Park
  • Pier 45
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Self-guided Tour #6

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Number of sights 28 sights
Distance 8.6 km
Ascend 266 m
Descend 240 m

  • Circle Line
  • USS Growler
  • USS Intrepid
  • Intrepid Museum
  • DeWitt Clinton Park
  • Saints Kyril & Metodi Cathedral
  • Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  • Church of Saint Paul the Apostle
  • David H. Koch Theater
  • Damrosch Park
  • Metropolitan Opera House
  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Manhattan New York Temple
  • American Folk Art Museum
  • David Geffen Hall
  • Lincoln Center Theater
  • Reclining Figure
  • Sherman Square
  • Church of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Congregation Sherith Israel
  • First Church of Christ, Scientist
  • Daniel Webster
  • Strawberry Fields
  • The San Remo
  • King Jagiello Monument
  • Central Park
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Self-guided Tour #7

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 213 m
Descend 241 m

  • Charles Scribner's Sons Building
  • Eugene O'Neill Theatre
  • Barrymore Theatre
  • Duffy Square
  • Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
  • Hudson Theatre
  • Belasco Theatre
  • Bryant Park
  • Golda Meir
  • Candler Building
  • Helen Hayes Theatre
  • Broadhurst Theatre
  • Booth Theatre
  • Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
  • Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
  • Imperial Theatre
  • Holy Cross Church
  • 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
  • Gagosian
  • Hauser & Wirth
  • Dia Chelsea
  • Church of the Guardian Angel
  • Galleria Ca' d'Oro
  • David Zwirner
  • Hales Gallery
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Self-guided Tour #8

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.8 km
Ascend 338 m
Descend 334 m

  • Islamic Cultural Center of New York
  • George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Houses
  • The Jewish Museum
  • Church of the Heavenly Rest
  • Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in New York
  • James Burden Mansion
  • Brick Presbyterian Church
  • Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola
  • Central Park
  • Cleopatra's Needle
  • King Jagiello Monument
  • Delacorte Theater
  • Whisper Bench
  • Belvedere Castle
  • Bow Bridge
  • Bethesda Fountain
  • Victor Herbert
  • Eagles and Prey
  • Indian Hunter
  • Central Park Carousel
  • Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
  • Dante Alighieri
  • David H. Koch Theater
  • Damrosch Park
  • David Geffen Hall
  • Church of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Congregation Sherith Israel
  • Giuseppe Mazzini
  • Cherry Hill Fountain
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Self-guided Tour #9

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Number of sights 21 sights
Distance 6.8 km
Ascend 182 m
Descend 155 m

  • Thomas Jefferson Park
  • St. Lucy's Church
  • Islamic Cultural Center of New York
  • St. Francis de Sales Church
  • George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Houses
  • Brick Presbyterian Church
  • James Burden Mansion
  • Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in New York
  • The Jewish Museum
  • Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Church of the Heavenly Rest
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Neue Galerie New York
  • Cleopatra's Needle
  • Central Park
  • Temple of Dendur
  • Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola
  • Park Avenue Christian Church
  • Park Avenue Synagogue
  • Church of Saint Thomas More
  • Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
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Self-guided Tour #10

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 10.1 km
Ascend 296 m
Descend 298 m

  • The Ansonia
  • Rutgers Church
  • Giuseppe Verdi Monument
  • Beacon Theater
  • West End Collegiate Church
  • First Baptist Church
  • Holy Trinity Church
  • The Jewish Center
  • Congregation Rodeph Sholom
  • The Beresford
  • Hayden Planetarium
  • Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre
  • Shakespeare Garden
  • Whisper Bench
  • Belvedere Castle
  • Delacorte Theater
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Tempest
  • Central Park
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Lucy Drexel Dahlgren House
  • Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church
  • St. Cecilia's Church
  • The Africa Center
  • Three Dancing Maidens – Untermyer Fountain
  • Burnett Memorial Fountain
  • Conservatory Garden
  • El Museo Del Barrio
  • Museum of the City of New York
  • Crenshaw Christian Center East
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Self-guided Tour #11

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Number of sights 28 sights
Distance 9.6 km
Ascend 187 m
Descend 200 m

  • New York Earth Room
  • Time Landscape
  • St. Anthony of Padua Church
  • MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District
  • Washington Mews
  • Alamo
  • Colonnade row
  • Public Theater
  • Merchant's House Museum
  • New York Theatre Workshop
  • The Ukrainian Museum
  • Orpheum Theatre
  • Saint Mark's in-the-Bowery
  • Theater for the New City
  • Performance Space 122
  • Slocum Disaster Memorial
  • La Plaza Cultural
  • Saint Brigid's Church
  • Tompkins Square Park
  • St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church
  • Lower East Side Playground
  • Immaculate Conception Church
  • St. George's Church
  • Classic Stage Company
  • Grace Church
  • Gramercy Park
  • Church of the Epiphany
  • Stuyvesant Cove Park
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Self-guided Tour #12

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 10.6 km
Ascend 229 m
Descend 241 m

  • Church of St. Luke in the Fields
  • Hess Triangle
  • Greenwich Village
  • Gay Liberation Monument
  • Gay Street
  • St. Joseph's Church
  • Alexander Lyman Holley Monument
  • New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Grace Church
  • Classic Stage Company
  • Saint Mark's in-the-Bowery
  • Colonnade row
  • Merchant's House Museum
  • Judson Memorial Church
  • Comedy Cellar
  • MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District
  • St. Anthony of Padua Church
  • New York Earth Room
  • SoHo
  • Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
  • LentSpace
  • Duarte Square
  • Dahesh Museum of Art
  • New York City Fire Museum
  • Children's Museum of the Arts
  • FDNY Ladder 8
  • Duane Park
  • Hudson River Park
  • Sherman Zwicker
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Self-guided Tour #13

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 5.7 km
Ascend 151 m
Descend 149 m

  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  • Metropolitan Opera House
  • The Ansonia
  • Rutgers Church
  • Giuseppe Verdi Monument
  • Beacon Theater
  • West End Collegiate Church
  • First Baptist Church
  • All Angels Church
  • Holy Trinity Church
  • The Jewish Center
  • West 87th Street Garden
  • Congregation Rodeph Sholom
  • The Beresford
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Central Park
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Self-guided Tour #14

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Number of sights 28 sights
Distance 10.2 km
Ascend 417 m
Descend 430 m

  • Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
  • Central Synagogue
  • General Electric Building
  • Greenacre Park
  • Japan Society
  • Non-Violence
  • United Nations Headquarters
  • Japanese Peace Bell
  • Ford Foundation
  • Daily News Building
  • Chrysler Building
  • Grand Central Terminal
  • Helmsley Building
  • Fortitude
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Bryant Park
  • Josephine Shaw Lowell Fountain
  • Herald Square
  • Koreatown
  • Hotel Wolcott
  • Marble Collegiate Church
  • Church of the Transfiguration
  • Museum of Sex
  • Madison Square Park
  • Joseph Raphael De Lamar House
  • The Morgan Library & Museum
  • Church of the Incarnation
  • Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary
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Self-guided Tour #15

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Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 2.9 km
Ascend 114 m
Descend 107 m

  • Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse
  • Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral
  • Columbus Park
  • Statue of Christopher Columbus
  • Unity
  • Saint James Cathedral
  • Fort Greene Park
  • Prison Ship Martyrs Monument
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Self-guided Tour #16

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 11.3 km
Ascend 162 m
Descend 155 m

  • Stuyvesant Cove Park
  • Immaculate Conception Church
  • Lower East Side Playground
  • St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church
  • Slocum Disaster Memorial
  • La Plaza Cultural
  • Saint Brigid's Church
  • Performance Space 122
  • Orpheum Theatre
  • New York Theatre Workshop
  • Hare Krishna Temple
  • Liz Christy Garden
  • Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral
  • Desalvio Playground
  • Storefront for Art and Architecture
  • Mmuseumm
  • Columbus Park
  • Most Precious Blood Church
  • Capitale
  • San Lorenzo Ruiz Chapel
  • Elizabeth Street Garden
  • New Museum
  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum
  • Peretz Square
  • Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
  • Le Petit Versailles
  • The Stanton Street Shul
  • Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
  • Hamilton Fish Park
  • John V. Lindsay East River Park
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Self-guided Tour #17

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 2.7 km
Ascend 118 m
Descend 118 m

  • Morningside Park
  • Bellerophon Taming Pegasus
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Riverside Park
  • General Grant National Memorial
  • Amiable Child Memorial
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Self-guided Tour #18

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 11.5 km
Ascend 422 m
Descend 419 m

  • West Side Jewish Center
  • Golda Meir
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Bryant Park
  • Candler Building
  • Helen Hayes Theatre
  • Broadhurst Theatre
  • Booth Theatre
  • Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
  • Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
  • Imperial Theatre
  • Barrymore Theatre
  • Duffy Square
  • Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
  • Hudson Theatre
  • Belasco Theatre
  • International Center of Photography
  • Grand Central Terminal
  • Helmsley Building
  • Greenacre Park
  • Central Synagogue
  • General Electric Building
  • Charles Scribner's Sons Building
  • Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
  • Central Park Zoo
  • Delacorte Musical Clock
  • Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
  • St. John Nepomucene Church
  • First Hungarian Reformed Church
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Self-guided Tour #19

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 2.8 km
Ascend 37 m
Descend 43 m

  • Jewish Center of Brighton Beach
  • New York Aquarium
  • Coney Island Cyclone
  • Wonder Wheel
  • Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park
  • Steeplechase Park
  • Parachute Jump
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Self-guided Tour #20

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 3 km
Ascend 37 m
Descend 61 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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