Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in New York, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 10.4 km
Ascend 325 m
Descend 333 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: Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary

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Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary J Russiello / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary was a former Roman Catholic parish church, primarily serving Italian-Americans, that has been demolished. The church was located on 309-315 East 33rd Street, in the Kips Bay area of Manhattan, New York City. It has since been replaced by a chapel under the same name.

Wikipedia: Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Manhattan) (EN)

1050 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 2: Church of the Epiphany

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The Church of the Epiphany is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 373 Second Avenue at the corner of East 22nd Street, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It operates a co-educational PreK–8 Catholic school and Religious Education program.

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

511 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Calvary Church

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Calvary Church

Calvary Church is an Episcopal church located at 277 Park Avenue South on the corner of East 21st Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on the border of the Flatiron District. It was designed by James Renwick Jr., the architect who designed St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grace Church, and was completed in 1848. The church complex is located within the Gramercy Park Historic District and Extension. It is one of the two sanctuaries of the Calvary-St. George's Parish.

Wikipedia: Calvary Church (Manhattan) (EN), Website

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Fotografiska

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Fotografiska New York is a branch of the Swedish photography museum Fotografiska in Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. The museum's home is the Church Missions House, a six-story, 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) Renaissance Revival landmark. It opened in December 2019.

Wikipedia: Fotografiska New York (EN), Website

860 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: Church of the Transfiguration

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Church of the Transfiguration

The Church of the Transfiguration, also known as the Little Church Around the Corner, is an Episcopal parish church located at 1 East 29th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The congregation was founded in 1848 by George Hendric Houghton and worshiped in a home at 48 East 29th Street until the church was built and consecrated in 1849.

Wikipedia: Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal (Manhattan) (EN)

487 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Eternal Light Flagstaff

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The Eternal Light Flagstaff is a memorial monument located in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, New York City which was dedicated on Armistice Day, November 11, 1923, and commemorates the return to the United States of members of the United States armed forces who fought in World War I, who were officially received by the city on that site in 1918. It was designed by architect Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, and consists of a flagstaff and a sculpture by Paul Wayland Bartlett. The memorial was commissioned by department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker and cost $25,000 to construct. It was completed in 1924.

Wikipedia: Eternal Light Flagstaff (EN)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Flatiron Building

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Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story, 285-foot-tall (86.9 m) steel-framed landmarked building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the eponymous Flatiron District neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinkelberg, and known in its early days as "Burnham's Folly", it was completed in 1902 and originally included 20 floors. The building sits on a triangular block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street—where the building's 87-foot (27 m) back end is located—with East 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. The name "Flatiron" derives from its triangular shape, which recalls that of a cast-iron clothes iron.

Wikipedia: Flatiron Building (EN)

912 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 8: First Presbyterian Church

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The First Presbyterian Church, known as "Old First", is a church located at 48 Fifth Avenue between West 11th and 12th Streets in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1844–1846, and designed by Joseph C. Wells in the Gothic Revival style. The south transept of the building was added in 1893–1894, and was designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White. The church complex, which includes a parish house – now referred to as the "South Wing" – on West 11th Street and a church house on West 12th Street designed by Edgar Tafel, is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Wikipedia: First Presbyterian Church (Manhattan) (EN)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Church of the Ascension

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Church of the AscensionDavid Shankbone; cropped by Beyond My Ken 20:11, 26 March 2011 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Church of the Ascension is an Episcopal church in the Diocese of New York, located at 36–38 Fifth Avenue and West 10th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan New York City. It was built in 1840–41, the first church to be built on Fifth Avenue and was designed by Richard Upjohn in the Gothic Revival style. The interior was remodeled by Stanford White in 1885–88.

Wikipedia: Church of the Ascension, Episcopal (Manhattan) (EN)

441 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Alexander Lyman Holley Monument

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Alexander Lyman Holley Monument

An outdoor bronze bust of Alexander Lyman Holley by artist John Quincy Adams Ward and architect Thomas Hastings is installed in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York. Cast by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company of New York and dedicated in 1889, the sculpture is set on an Indiana limestone pedestal and displays a Beaux-Arts style design.

Wikipedia: Bust of Alexander Lyman Holley (EN)

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: St. Joseph's Church

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The Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 365 Avenue of the Americas at the corner of Washington Place in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Constructed in 1833–1834, it is the oldest church in New York City specifically built to be a Roman Catholic sanctuary.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village (EN)

360 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Comedy Cellar

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Comedy CellarAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Comedy Cellar is a comedy club in Manhattan where many top New York comedians perform, sometimes referred to as the "Harvard of comedy clubs". It was founded in 1982 by then stand-up comedian, and current television writer/producer Bill Grundfest. It is located in Greenwich Village on 117 MacDougal Street between West 3rd Street and Minetta Lane. Above the club is a restaurant called The Olive Tree Cafe to which it is connected, where many of the comedians hang out after performing. The club is owned by Noam Dworman, who inherited it from his late father Manny in 2003. It is being booked by Estee Adoram, who has developed the club's talent for nearly four decades. The businesses share the same menu, kitchen, and staff as the Olive Tree Cafe.

Wikipedia: Comedy Cellar (EN), Website

755 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: Dahesh Museum of Art

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The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. The collection, located in Manhattan, New York City, originated with Lebanese writer and philosopher Salim Moussa Achi (1909–1984), whose pen name was Dr. Dahesh. The core of the museum's holdings consists of Dahesh's collection of more than 2,000 academic paintings, which includes many notable Orientalist paintings.

Wikipedia: Dahesh Museum of Art (EN), Website

302 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Duarte Square

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Duarte Square

Juan Pablo Duarte Square, usually shortened to Duarte Square, is a 0.45-acre (0.18 ha) triangular park in Hudson Square, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The park, operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, is bound by Sullivan Street and the LentSpace plot to the west, Grand Street to the north, Sixth Avenue to the east, and Canal Street and Albert Capsouto Park to the south.

Wikipedia: Duarte Square (EN), Website

770 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 15: Children's Museum of the Arts

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The Children's Museum of the Arts (“CMA”) is located at 103 Charlton Street, Manhattan, New York, United States in the South Village district. Founded by Kathleen Schneider in 1988, CMA opened its new, 10,000-square-foot space in October 2011.

Wikipedia: Children's Museum of the Arts (EN), Website

626 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Church of St. Luke in the Fields

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The Church of St. Luke in the Fields is an Episcopal church located at 487 Hudson Street between Christopher and Barrow Streets at the intersection of Grove Street in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The church was constructed in 1821–1822 and has been attributed to both John Heath, the building contractor, and James N. Wells.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Luke in the Fields (EN), Website

643 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 17: Pier 45

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Pier 45

The Christopher Street Pier is a group of piers in Hudson River Park on the Hudson River waterfront of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, numbered 42, 45, 46, and 51. "Christopher Street Pier" usually refers specifically to Pier 45 opposite W. 10th Street, which can be reached by crossing West Street.

Wikipedia: Christopher Street Pier (EN)

1794 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 18: Galleria Ca' d'Oro

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Galleria Ca' d'Oro is an international contemporary art gallery curated and organized by Gloria Porcella. The gallery was founded in Rome by Antonio Porcella in 1970, and currently has three locations in Rome, Miami, and New York City.

Wikipedia: Galleria Ca' d'Oro (EN), Website

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Church of the Guardian Angel

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The Church of the Guardian Angel is a Roman Catholic church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 193 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Wikipedia: Church of the Guardian Angel (Manhattan) (EN)

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Gagosian

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Gagosian Kazuhisa OTSUBO / CC BY 2.0

The Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Larry Gagosian. The gallery exhibits some of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. There are 18 gallery spaces – six in New York City, two in London, three in Paris, and one each in Basel, Gstaad, Beverly Hills, Rome, Athens, Geneva and Hong Kong.

Wikipedia: Gagosian Gallery (EN), Website

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