Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in New York, United States

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

Explore New York in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in New YorkIndividual Sights in New York

Sight 1: Brooklyn Bridge

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The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It was also the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 127 ft (38.7 m) above mean high water. The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.

Wikipedia: Brooklyn Bridge (EN), Website

1059 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 2: Drumgoole Plaza

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Drumgoole Plaza is a public park that sits below the ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan, New York City, on Frankfort Street between Park Row and Gold Street, and next to the main building of Pace University at One Pace Plaza. Opened on November 5, 2003, the park is maintained by Pace under the management of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Wikipedia: Drumgoole Plaza (EN)

408 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: City Hall

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The City Hall station, also known as City Hall Loop station, is a closed station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located under City Hall Park, next to New York City Hall, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The station was constructed for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as the southern terminal of the city's first subway line, which was approved in 1900. Construction of the segment of the line that includes the City Hall station started on September 12 of the same year. The station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway. As ridership grew, it was deemed infeasible to lengthen the original platform to accommodate ten-car trains. The station was closed on December 31, 1945, because of its proximity to the Brooklyn Bridge station.

Wikipedia: City Hall station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) (EN)

552 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Corbin Building

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The Corbin Building is a historic office building at the northeast corner of John Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in 1888–1889 as a speculative development and was designed by Francis H. Kimball in the Romanesque Revival style with French Gothic detailing. The building was named for Austin Corbin, a president of the Long Island Rail Road who also founded several banks.

Wikipedia: Corbin Building (EN)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Double Check

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Double Check Original work: John Seward Johnson IIDepiction: Ron Cogswell / Fair use

Double Check is a 1982 sculpture by John Seward Johnson II, located across from Zuccotti Park at the corner of Liberty Street and Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. The bronze sculpture portrays a well-dressed businessman sitting with his briefcase open, which are filled with office materials getting ready to enter an office building. The statue is notable for its association with the 9/11 attacks.

Wikipedia: Double Check (EN), Website

336 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Federal Hall National Memorial

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Federal Hall National MemorialAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

Federal Hall is a memorial and historic site at 26 Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The current Greek Revival–style building, completed in 1842 as the Custom House, is owned by the United States federal government and operated by the National Park Service as a national memorial called the Federal Hall National Memorial. The memorial is named for an earlier Federal style building on this same site, completed in 1703 as City Hall, which the government of the newly independent United States used as its capital building during the 1780s.

Wikipedia: Federal Hall (EN), Website

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Fearless Girl

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Fearless Girl Original work: Kristen VisbalDepiction: Rachel Knipel / CC-BY-SA-4.0

Fearless Girl is a bronze sculpture by Kristen Visbal, on Broad Street across from the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The statue was installed on March 7, 2017, in anticipation of International Women's Day the following day. It depicts a 4-foot high (1.2 m) girl promoting female empowerment.

Wikipedia: Fearless Girl (EN)

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Charging Bull

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Charging Bull, sometimes referred to as the Bull of Wall Street or the Bowling Green Bull, is a bronze sculpture that stands on Broadway just north of Bowling Green in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The 7,100-pound (3,200 kg) bronze sculpture, standing 11 feet (3.4 m) tall and measuring 16 feet (4.9 m) long, depicts a bull, the symbol of financial optimism and prosperity. Charging Bull is a popular tourist destination that draws thousands of people a day, symbolizing Wall Street and the Financial District.

Wikipedia: Charging Bull (EN), Website

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Bowling Green

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Bowling Green is a small, historic, public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the southern end and address origin of Broadway. Once located next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam, it served as a public gathering place and under the English was designated as a park in 1733. It is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th-century fence. The park included an actual bowling green and a monumental equestrian statue of King George III prior to the American Revolutionary War. Pulled down during the revolution, the 4000-pound statute is said to have been melted for ammunition to fight the British.

Wikipedia: Bowling Green (New York City) (EN), Website

266 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza

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Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza is a public park in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. formed by the triangular junction of Trinity Place, Greenwich Street and Edgar Street. It faces the Manhattan exit ramp from the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel. Formerly known as the Edgar Street Greenstreet, this park honors civic advocate Elizabeth H. Berger (1960-2013). In her role as president of the Downtown Alliance, she advocated for the fusion of two traffic triangles at this location into an expanded park. The park is located on the site of a former neighborhood known as Little Syria, a bustling immigrant community displaced by the construction of the tunnel in 1953.

Wikipedia: Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza (EN), Website

1336 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 11: Duane Park

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Duane Park Photo by User:Aude. / CC BY-SA 2.5

Duane Park is a small, triangular public urban park located in the diamond of the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The park is bordered by Hudson Street to the east and branches of Duane Street on north and south sides. It was originally laid out by Calvert Vaux.

Wikipedia: Duane Park (EN), Website

489 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: FDNY Ladder 8

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Firehouse, Hook & Ladder Company 8 is a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, located at 14 North Moore Street at its intersection with Varick Street in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Its exterior has become famous for its appearance in the supernatural comedy franchise Ghostbusters.

Wikipedia: Firehouse, Hook & Ladder Company 8 (EN)

597 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Collect Pond Park

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Collect Pond Park

Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond, was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main New York City water supply system for the growing city. The location of the former pond later became the site of a jail, and is now memorialized by Collect Pond Park, which includes a reflecting pool to acknowledge the historic importance of this body of water.

Wikipedia: Collect Pond (EN), Website

285 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Columbus Park

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Columbus Park formerly known as Mulberry Bend Park, Five Points Park and Paradise Park, is a public park in Chinatown, Manhattan, in New York City that was built in 1897.

Wikipedia: Columbus Park (Manhattan) (EN), Website

143 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Church of the Transfiguration

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Church of the Transfiguration

The Church of the Transfiguration is a Roman Catholic parish located at 25 Mott Street on the northwest corner of Mosco Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York and is staffed by the Maryknoll order.

Wikipedia: Church of the Transfiguration, Roman Catholic (Manhattan) (EN)

466 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 16: Most Precious Blood Church

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Most Precious Blood Church

The Church of the Most Precious Blood is a Roman Catholic parish located in New York City. The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, and is the National Shrine Church of San Gennaro. Located at 113 Baxter Street with an additional entrance on Mulberry Street, the Church of the Most Precious Blood is part of Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood. The Most Precious Blood parished merged with Old St. Patrick's Cathedral parish, and the two churches share priests and administrative staff.

Wikipedia: Church of the Most Precious Blood (Manhattan) (EN)

460 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Capitale

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The Bowery Savings Bank was a bank in New York City, chartered in May 1834. By 1980, it had over 35 branches in the New York metropolitan area. In 1992, it was sold to H. F. Ahmanson & Co. for $200 million.

Wikipedia: Bowery Savings Bank (EN), Website, Heritage Website

642 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Museum at Eldridge Street

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Museum at Eldridge Street The original uploader was GK tramrunner at English Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Eldridge Street Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 12 Eldridge Street in Chinatown, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, in the United States. Built in 1887, the National Historic Landmark is one of the first synagogues erected in the United States by Eastern European Jews.

Wikipedia: Eldridge Street Synagogue (EN), Website

552 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: Coleman Playground

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Coleman Playground is a public park on the border between the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

Wikipedia: Coleman Playground (EN)

1623 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 20: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows

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The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 105 Pitt Street between Rivington Street and Stanton Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The area formerly served Catholics who lived in the immigrant enclave of Kleindeutschland.

Wikipedia: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (New York City) (EN)

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