Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in New York, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 8.8 km
Ascend 237 m
Descend 227 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: Frederick Douglass Memorial

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Frederick Douglass Memorial

The Frederick Douglass Memorial is a memorial commemorating Frederick Douglass, installed at the northwest corner of New York City's Central Park, in the U.S. state of New York. The memorial includes an 8-foot bronze sculpture depicting Douglass by Gabriel Koren and a large circle and fountain designed by Algernon Miller. Additionally, Quennell Rothschild & Partners is credited as the memorial's architecture, and Polich-Tallix served as the foundry. The memorial was dedicated on September 20, 2011, and was funded by the Percent for Art program and the, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass Memorial (EN), Website, Website Alternate

1586 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 2: Riverside Park

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Riverside Park is a scenic waterfront public park in the Upper West Side, Morningside Heights, and Hamilton Heights neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The park measures 4 miles (6.4 km) long and 100 to 500 feet wide, running between the Hudson River and Henry Hudson Parkway to the west and the serpentine Riverside Drive to the east.

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

1176 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 3: Carrere Memorial

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Carrere Memorial

Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, was one of the outstanding American Beaux-Arts architecture firms. Located in New York City, the firm practiced from 1885 until 1929, although Carrère died in an automobile accident in 1911.

Wikipedia: Carrère and Hastings (EN)

878 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: Hostelling International New York City

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Hostelling International New York City

The Association Residence Nursing Home, also called the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged and Indigent Females, is a historic building in New York City built from 1881–1883 to the design of Richard Morris Hunt in the Victorian Gothic style. It is located on Amsterdam Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and is now a hostel run by Hostelling International. The Association was founded in 1814 to help the widows of soldiers of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. An addition to the building was constructed on the south end of the property in 1907, with seven Tiffany windows that are now in the Morse Museum of American Art's collection. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Wikipedia: Association Residence Nursing Home (EN), Website

327 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan

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Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan is a Lutheran church located at 164 West 100th Street just east of Amsterdam Avenue, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1888 as the German Evangelical Lutheran Church to serve German immigrants moving into the Upper West Side. It initially held services in a storefront until money had been raised to buy land and build a sanctuary.

Wikipedia: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan (EN), Website

107 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Saint Michael's Church

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Saint Michael's Church

St. Michael's Church is a historic Episcopal church at 225 West 99th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City. The parish was founded on the present site in January 1807, at that time in the rural Bloomingdale District. The present limestone Romanesque building, the third on the site, was built in 1890–91 to designs by Robert W. Gibson and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Wikipedia: St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Manhattan) (EN), Website

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Holy Name of Jesus Church

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Holy Name of Jesus Church

The Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York located at 207 West 96th Street at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1900 and was designed by Thomas H. Poole in the Gothic Revival style.

Wikipedia: Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church (Manhattan) (EN), Website

354 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Congregation Shaare Zedek

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Congregation Shaare Zedek

Congregation Shaare Zedek is a Conservative synagogue located on West 93rd Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, in the United States.

Wikipedia: Congregation Shaare Zedek (Manhattan) (EN), Website

396 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church

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Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church

The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church is a Greek Orthodox church on Manhattan's Upper West Side at West End Avenue and West 91st Street.

Wikipedia: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (Manhattan) (EN)

347 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

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The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument is a monument located in Riverside Park, at 89th Street and Riverside Drive, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It commemorates Union Army soldiers and sailors who served in the American Civil War. It is an enlarged version of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, and was designed by the firm of Stoughton & Stoughton with Paul E. M. DuBoy. The monument was completed in 1902.

Wikipedia: Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Manhattan) (EN)

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Congregation B'nai Jeshurun

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B'nai Jeshurun is a non-denominational Jewish synagogue located at 257 West 88th Street and 270 West 89th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, in the United States.

Wikipedia: B'nai Jeshurun (Manhattan) (EN), Website

160 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church

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Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church

St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church, located at 552 West End Avenue, on the southeast corner of 87th Street, in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood. It was built in 1903 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Wikipedia: St. Ignatius of Antioch Church (New York City) (EN), Website

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew

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Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew

The Church of Saint Paul and Saint Andrew is a historic United Methodist church located in the Upper West Side of New York City, New York, on West 86th Street. The Church is known for being socially liberal and for accepting all people. The Church hosts a number of performing arts groups, including Camerata Notturna, Riverside Orchestra, and New Plaza Cinema.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (New York City) (EN), Website

566 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: All Angels Church

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All Angels Church

All Angels' Church is located on 251 West 80th Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is a member of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Communion worldwide.

Wikipedia: All Angel's Church (New York City) (EN), Website

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: First Baptist Church

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First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church in the City of New York is a Baptist church based in a sanctuary built in 1890–93 at the intersection of Broadway and West 79th Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. The church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Wikipedia: First Baptist Church in the City of New York (EN)

260 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: West End Collegiate Church

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West End Collegiate Church

The West End Collegiate Church is a church on West End Avenue at 77th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It is part of The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of New York, the oldest Protestant church with a continuing organization in America. The Collegiate Church of New York is dually affiliated with the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Reformed Church in America (RCA). The West End Collegiate Church is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: West End Collegiate Church (EN), Website

1727 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 17: Central Park

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Central ParkAnthony Quintano from Hillsborough, NJ, United States / CC BY 2.0

Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016.

Wikipedia: Central Park (EN), Website, Heritage Website

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