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Choose from Walk About New York’s guided walking tours of New York City.
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Greenwich Village Walking Tour

Greenwich Village is New York City’s most storied neighborhood. It has been home to the famous and infamous; and it still is! See the locations and hear the stories that have for decades attracted locals and visitors alike to the city’s most fascinating area.

Through the quirky, charming streets of the Village we will make our way, seeing several charming parks and gardens, as well as one of the last wood-framed houses in The Village. You will see the houses where Mark Twain, Emma Lazarus, e.e. cummings, and Edna St. Vincent Millet lived, as well as the pharmacy where Mr. Twain had his prescriptions filled. Consult the Tour Calendar for dates.

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The cost is $40 for adults; $30 for seniors, 65+; and $20 for youths, 13 to 18 years of age. The Tour is two-and-a-half (2-1/2) to three (3) hours. Tours must be booked at least 36 hours in advance.
All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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Central Park Walking Tour

Central Park is the lungs of New York, and its crown jewel. It is the greatest urban park in the world! Discover its fascinating history, numerous monuments, and its secrets on this vigorous walking tour.

Among the sights included are Strawberry Fields, the tribute to John Lennon and The Dakota apartment house, where Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono still lives; Belvedere Castle and the Shakespeare Garden; the Balto Monument; the Alice in Wonderland Memorial; The Dairy; Literary Walk and Bethesda Plaza, with its Angel of the Waters Fountain and The Lake. Consult the Tour Calendar for dates.

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The cost is $40 for adults; $30 for seniors, 65+; and $20 for youths, 13 to 18 years of age. The Tour is two-and-a-half (2.5) to three (3) hours long. Tours must be booked at least 36 hours in advance.
All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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Highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of the grandest art museums in the world, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has more than two million works of art covering 5,000 years of human history in its permanent collection.

Walk About New York will guide you on a journey through its art and artifacts. From Ancient Egypt, to Medieval Europe to Gilded Age America, to the most influential artist of the 20th century you will learn about some of the most interesting pieces of art in collection at The Met.

Take the Tour; Know More!

For additional information, click the title above or the icon at right to be taken to this Tour’s page.

The cost is $80 for adults; $60 for seniors, 65+; and $40 for youths, to 18 years of age. The Tour is two-and-a-half (2.5) hours.
Tours must be booked at least 36 hours in advance.
All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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Five Squares and a Circle Tour

This very unique tour takes you from Greenwich Village to Columbus Circle. The five squares include Washington, Union, Madison, Herald and Times, Crossroads of the World, where thousands ring in the New Year. We end at Columbus Circle, with its columned monument to the Italian explorer. The southwest entrance to Central Park can be found here. Consult the Tour Calendar for dates.

For additional information, click the title above or the icon at right to be taken to this Tour’s page.

The cost is $40 for adults; $30 for seniors, 65+; and $20 for youths, 13 to 18 years of age. The Tour is two-and-a-half (2-1/2) to three (3) hours. Tours must be booked at least 36 hours in advance.
All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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Gay-Themed Tours

Walk About New York offers the following three, gay-themed tours.

The Gay Village Walking Tour will take you to the homes, places of business, bars, and art installations where gay men and lesbians have lived, loved, partied and worked over the past 130 years in Greenwich Village, New York’s most storied neighborhood. Many of those stories were written by the men and women of the gay community. From a closeted multimillionaire to a First Lady’s circle of friends to well-known and lesser-known artists, poets, photographers and musicians to New York City elected officials and political activists, the Gay Village Walking Tour includes a cast of characters that is sure to amuse, surprise and inform you, whether you are gay or straight or none of the above!

The Gay Village Bar Crawl mixes gay history and Greenwich Village history with spirits of all sort. Since at least the end of the 19th century bar culture has loomed large in the gay community. During this three-hour bar crawl, learn why bars have played such an outsized role in gay life. Join us as we tip back our glasses at four historic gay bars and lesbian bars, on a lively and entertaining tour of New York City’s most storied neighborhood, Greenwich Village. Have a few drinks and some fun with friends while learning about the history of the important place that bars have played in the LGBTQ community.

The Gay Graves Tour is an LGBT-focused tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark
in Brooklyn. This Tour is one-of-a-kind. It will introduce you to the famous and the not-so-famous gay
men (Leonard Bernstein and Fred Ebb) and lesbians (Emma Stebbins and Violet Oakley), their friends,
their supporters and their detractors who are among the permanent residents at Green-Wood. Time
passes quickly because at every moment we are surrounded by beauty, both the man-made monuments
and nature’s artistry. The Gay Graves Tour is conducted entirely on foot. The terrain of Green-Wood is hilly;
this is more of hike than a walk.

Consult the Tour Calendar for the dates of all three tours.

For additional information, click the title above or the photo at right to be taken to this Tour’s page.

The cost is $40 for adults; $30 for seniors, 65+; and $20 for youths, 13 to 18 years of age (who not included
on the Gay Village Bar Crawl). The Tours are two-and-a-half (2.5) to three (3) hours, and must be booked at
least 36 hours in advance. All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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Downtown Manhattan Walking Tour

Downtown Manhattan is where New York, or more precisely where Nieuw Amsterdam began. This area of Manhattan, more than any other in New York, offers a stark contrast between the past and the present. On our Downtown Manhattan Walking Tour you’ll visit sites that date to Colonial New York; see skyscrapers built to house America’s financial powerhouses, and stand where American history was made. Discover where Alexander Hamilton is buried;  where George Washington first took the oath of office in 1789; where Fort Amsterdam once stood; and why The Battery is so called.

Consult the Tour Calendar for the dates of all three tours.

For additional information, click the title above or the photo at right to be taken to this Tour’s page.

The cost is $40 for adults; $30 for seniors, 65+; and $20 for youths, 13 to 18 years of age (who not included on the Gay Village Bar Crawl). The Tours are two-and-a-half (2.5) to three (3) hours, and must be booked at least 36 hours in advance. All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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Rockefeller Center Art Walking Tour

Discover the many fabulous works of art that have entertained and educated New Yorkers and worldwide visitors at Rockefeller Center, the landmarked, Midtown showplace. Learn how the numerous and remarkable artworks support the vision that John D. Rockefeller, Jr. had for the complex that bears his family’s name. Get to know the history behind each work of art too.

Come with us as we survey the sculptures, mosaics, reliefs, and murals on canvas—both inside and outside—that are scattered around the 12-acre site. We will guide you through a breathtaking array of art; and you will never think of Rockefeller Center as just a place where you see a Christmas tree.

Consult the Tour Calendar for dates.

For additional information, click the title above or the photo at right to be taken to this Tour’s page.

The cost is $40 for adults; $30 for seniors, 65+; and $20 for youths, 13 to 18 years of age. The Tour is two-and-a-half (2-1/2) to three (3) hours. Tours must be booked at least 36 hours in advance.
All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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Subway Art Tours

Consult the Tour Calendar because the Subway Art Tours are seasonal tours, conducted in the winter and spring, or by special arrangement for groups of 10 persons or more. Contact us!

Each Subway Art Tour is different; each one takes you on an unusual subterranean journey through ten different subway stations, each with its own unique art. On each tour you will discover a part of New York City that few visitors and few New York City residents take the time to appreciate: the art at the core of the Big Apple. These works of art surround the harried locals everyday, yet they go unnoticed! We shall take our time to explore. Step aboard for an eye-opening ride!

For additional information, click the title above or the photo at right to be taken to the list of Subway Art Tours. In January 2018 Subway Art Tour Four will join the other three Subway Art Tours.

The cost is $40 for adults; $30 for seniors, 65+; and $20 for youths, 13 to 18 years of age. The Subway Art Tour is offered as the replacement tour for the outdoor tours when it is raining, snowing, windy or bitterly cold. You will notified by e-mail if there is a substitution made. The Tour
is two-and-a-half (2-1/2) to three (3) hours. Tours must be booked at least 36 hours in advance.
All Tour participants assume normal liability for their behavior during the Tour.

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