Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in New York, United States

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 295 m
Descend 288 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: 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

386 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Intrepid Museum

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Intrepid MuseumAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Intrepid Museum is an American military and maritime history museum in New York City. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street, along the Hudson River, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. The museum is mostly composed of exhibits, aircraft, and spacecraft aboard the museum ship USS Intrepid, a World War II–era aircraft carrier, as well as the cruise missile submarine USS Growler and Pier 86. The Intrepid Museum Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization established in 1979, operates the museum.

Wikipedia: Intrepid Museum (EN), Website

705 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: Hells Kitchen Park

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Hell's Kitchen Park is a 0.58-acre (0.23 ha) park in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, New York City.

Wikipedia: Hell's Kitchen Park (EN)

840 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 4: DeWitt Clinton Park

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DeWitt Clinton ParkAmericasroof at en.wikipedia / CC BY 3.0

DeWitt Clinton Park is a 5.8-acre (23,000 m2) New York City public park in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, between West 52nd and 54th Streets, and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.

Wikipedia: DeWitt Clinton Park (EN)

1298 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 5: 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

46 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Metropolitan Opera House

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Metropolitan Opera HouseAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Metropolitan Opera House is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center, the theater was designed by Wallace K. Harrison. It opened in 1966, replacing the original 1883 Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street. With a seating capacity of approximately 3,850, the house is the largest repertory opera house in the world. Home to the Metropolitan Opera Company, the facility also hosts the American Ballet Theatre in the summer months.

Wikipedia: Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) (EN), Website

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

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Lincoln Center for the Performing ArtsAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School.

Wikipedia: Lincoln Center (EN)

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: David H. Koch Theater

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David H. Koch TheaterAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet, modern and other forms of dance, part of the Lincoln Center, at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Originally named the New York State Theater, the venue has been home to the New York City Ballet since its opening in 1964, the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall, and served as home to the New York City Opera from 1964 to 2011. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza of Lincoln Center, opposite David Geffen Hall.

Wikipedia: David H. Koch Theater (EN)

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri Photo by Marco Bonavoglia. The sculptor is Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926) / CC BY-SA 3.0

Dante Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, located in the Upper West Side neighborhood in front of Lincoln Center near Central Park.

Wikipedia: Dante Park (EN), Website

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: David Geffen Hall

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David Geffen HallAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The 2,200-seat auditorium opened in 1962, and is the home of the New York Philharmonic.

Wikipedia: David Geffen Hall (EN), Website

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Reclining Figure

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Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) (LH 519) is a statue by Henry Moore. The original two-part bronze statue of a human figure was commissioned for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, where it has been displayed outdoors since 1965 in a pool of water to the north of the new Metropolitan Opera House. Other copies in plaster or bronze exist, and are displayed in other cities.

Wikipedia: Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) (EN)

649 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Church of the Blessed Sacrament

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Church of the Blessed Sacrament

The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 152 West 71st Street, just east of Broadway. The parish was established in 1887.

Wikipedia: Church of the Blessed Sacrament (Manhattan) (EN), Website

313 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Giuseppe Verdi Monument

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The Giuseppe Verdi Monument is a sculpture honoring composer Giuseppe Verdi in Verdi Square Park in Manhattan, New York City. The statue was created by Italian sculptor Pasquale Civiletti.

Wikipedia: Giuseppe Verdi Monument (EN), Website

606 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: 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)

378 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Holy Trinity Church

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Holy Trinity Church

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 213 West 82nd Street near Amsterdam Avenue in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1898.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Church (Manhattan) (EN), Website

552 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: The Jewish Center

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The Jewish Center

The Jewish Center is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 131 West 86th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, in the United States.

Wikipedia: Jewish Center (Manhattan) (EN), Website

563 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 17: Congregation Rodeph Sholom

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Congregation Rodeph Sholom

Congregation Rodeph Sholom is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 7 West 83rd Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, in the United States. Founded in 1842 by immigrants from the German lands, it is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States.

Wikipedia: Congregation Rodeph Sholom (Manhattan) (EN), Website

396 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Hayden Planetarium

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Hayden Planetarium

The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Center's complete name is The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The main entrance is located on the northern side of the museum on 81st Street near Central Park West in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Completed in 2000, it includes the new Hayden Planetarium, the original of which was opened in 1935 and closed in 1997. Neil deGrasse Tyson is its first and, to date, only director.

Wikipedia: Rose Center for Earth and Space (EN), Website

867 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 19: 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

1174 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 20: Bow Bridge

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The Bow Bridge is a cast iron bridge located in Central Park, New York City, crossing over the Lake and used as a pedestrian walkway.

Wikipedia: Bow Bridge (Central Park) (EN), Website, Url, Url 1

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