Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #17 in New York, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 12.2 km
Ascend 440 m
Descend 421 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: Berry Campbell Gallery

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Berry Campbell Gallery is an art gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Its founders and directors are Christine Berry and Martha Campbell. The gallery focuses on historical and contemporary artists associated with American modernism.

Wikipedia: Berry Campbell Gallery (EN), Website

361 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Chelsea Park

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Chelsea ParkEden, Janine and Jim from New York City / CC BY 2.0

Chelsea Park is a park in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, that dates back to 1910. The park has sports fields, basketball and handball courts, a children's playground and space for sitting. The surface is mostly tarmac or artificial turf, with pits for the plane trees and some plots with annual flower plantings. There is a statue to a World War I soldier, the "Doughboy Statue", erected in 1921. The process of approval, funding and clearing the tenements that occupied the site was protracted. The park has since been upgraded several times by the Works Progress Administration and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Wikipedia: Chelsea Park (EN), Website

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Church of the Holy Apostles

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The Church of the Holy Apostles is an Episcopal parish located at 296 Ninth Avenue at 28th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Its historic church building was built from 1845 to 1848, and was designed by New York architect Minard Lafever. The geometric stained-glass windows were designed by William Jay Bolton. The church faces Chelsea Park across 9th Avenue. The building is a New York City landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Church of the Holy Apostles (Manhattan) (EN), Website

529 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: St. Michael's Church

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The Church of St. Michael is a parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 424 West 34th Street, in Manhattan, New York City.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Michael (34th Street, Manhattan) (EN)

1226 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 5: Candler Building

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The Candler Building is a skyscraper at the southern end of Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Located at 220 West 42nd Street, with a secondary address of 221 West 41st Street, the 24-story building was designed by the firm of Willauer, Shape and Bready in the Spanish Renaissance style. It was constructed between 1912 and 1913 for Coca-Cola Company owner Asa Griggs Candler. The Candler Building was one of the last skyscrapers built in New York City before the 1916 Zoning Resolution, which required setbacks. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Wikipedia: Candler Building (New York City) (EN), Heritage Website

440 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Broadhurst Theatre

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Broadhurst TheatreAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Broadhurst Theatre is a Broadway theater at 235 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1917, the theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and was built for the Shubert brothers. The Broadhurst Theatre is named for British-American theatrical producer George Broadhurst, who leased the theater before its opening. It has 1,218 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks.

Wikipedia: Broadhurst Theatre (EN)

142 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Booth Theatre

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Booth TheatreAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Booth Theatre is a Broadway theater at 222 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1913, the theater was designed by Henry Beaumont Herts in the Italian Renaissance style and was built for the Shubert brothers. The venue was originally operated by Winthrop Ames, who named it for 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth. It has 800 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. The facade and parts of the interior are New York City landmarks.

Wikipedia: Booth Theatre (EN)

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

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Bernard B. Jacobs TheatreAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is a Broadway theater at 242 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1927, the theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in a Spanish style and was built for real-estate developer Irwin S. Chanin. It has 1,100 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks.

Wikipedia: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (EN)

1004 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 9: Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael

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Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael

The Catholic Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael in Manhattan, New York City has since 1974 been administered as the seat of a Croatian national parish. It offers services in Croatian as well as services in English.

Wikipedia: Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael (EN), Website

703 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: Circle Line

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Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises is a boat-based sightseeing and entertainment company in Manhattan, New York. Its principal business is operating guided tours of New York City from its base at Pier 83 in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.

Wikipedia: Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises (EN), Website

1310 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 11: Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church, located in Hell's Kitchen/Clinton, Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1876, it is a parish of the Archdiocese of New York and is located at 457 West 51st Street. Sacred Heart of Jesus School is located at 456 West 52nd Street.

Wikipedia: Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (New York City) (EN), Website

751 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 12: Broadway Theatre

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Broadway TheatreAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Broadway Theatre is a Broadway theater at 1681 Broadway in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1924, the theater was designed by Eugene De Rosa for Benjamin S. Moss, who originally operated the venue as a movie theater. It has approximately 1,763 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. The Broadway Theatre is one of the few Broadway theaters that is physically on Broadway.

Wikipedia: Broadway Theatre (53rd Street) (EN)

638 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 13: Calvary Baptist Church

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Calvary Baptist Church is an Independent Baptist church, located at 123 West 57th Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, near Carnegie Hall in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. As of 2022, the church is at a temporary location while its building at 123 West 57th Street is being demolished and replaced.

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

611 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: Christopher Columbus Monument

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Christopher Columbus Monument

The Columbus Monument is a 76-foot (23 m) column in the center of Columbus Circle in New York City honoring the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who first made an expedition to the New World in 1492. The monument was created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo in 1892.

Wikipedia: Columbus Monument (New York City) (EN)

12 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: Columbus Circle

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Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South, and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park. The circle is the point from which official highway distances from New York City are measured, as well as the center of the 25 miles (40 km) restricted-travel area for C-2 visa holders.

Wikipedia: Columbus Circle (EN)

657 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Damrosch Park

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Damrosch Park is a 2.4-acre (0.97 ha) park at Amsterdam Avenue and West 62nd Street in Lincoln Square, Manhattan, New York City. The park, which includes the Guggenheim Bandshell, is on the south side of the Metropolitan Opera House and west of the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Wikipedia: Damrosch Park (EN), Website

968 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 17: Giuseppe Mazzini

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An outdoor bronze bust of Giuseppe Mazzini by Giovanni Turini is installed in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, in Manhattan, New York. The sculpture was commissioned by a group of Italian-Americans and was dedicated in 1878 with a speech by American poet William Cullen Bryant. It sits on a granite pedestal, which includes two inscriptions that translate to "thought and action" and "God and the people". In 1994, the bust was restored by the Central Park Conservancy.

Wikipedia: Bust of Giuseppe Mazzini (EN), Website

561 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 18: Central Park Carousel

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Central Park CarouselAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Central Park Carousel, officially the Michael Friedsam Memorial Carousel, is a vintage wood-carved carousel located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, at the southern end of the park, near East 65th Street. It is the fourth carousel on the site where it is located.

Wikipedia: Central Park Carousel (EN), Website, Website Alternate

499 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: Victor Herbert

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Victor Herbert

Victor Herbert is an outdoor bronze portrait bust of Victor Herbert by Edmond Thomas Quinn, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York.

Wikipedia: Bust of Victor Herbert (EN), Website

1485 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 20: 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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