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Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour
Manhattan
About
This Midtown Manhattan walking tour includes every aspect of the built environment: the city's historical move uptown, public and private works of art and architecture. This tour is unique for the underground passages, tunnels and POPS (privately-owned-public-places) that link these curated blocks of the city's most interesting and engaging spaces.
Highlights
From 3 hours to 4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 3 hours to 4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Expert guide
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
810 8th Ave
We meet in front of the Food Emporium supermarket on the northeast corner of 49th Street and 8th Avenue.
Return
727 5th Ave
The tour ends on 57th Street below the residential "pencil towers" of Billionaire's Row, near the corner of Tiffany's and Fifth Avenue.
Important Information
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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
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Not recommended for pregnant travelers
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Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
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Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour
Manhattan
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About
This Midtown Manhattan walking tour includes every aspect of the built environment: the city's historical move uptown, public and private works of art and architecture. This tour is unique for the underground passages, tunnels and POPS (privately-owned-public-places) that link these curated blocks of the city's most interesting and engaging spaces.
Highlights
From 3 hours to 4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 3 hours to 4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Expert guide
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
810 8th Ave
We meet in front of the Food Emporium supermarket on the northeast corner of 49th Street and 8th Avenue.
Return
727 5th Ave
The tour ends on 57th Street below the residential "pencil towers" of Billionaire's Row, near the corner of Tiffany's and Fifth Avenue.
Itinerary
1
Hell's Kitchen
We start the tour by dipping our toe into the tenements of Hell's Kitchen, a good juxtaposition for the residential history we see on Fifth Avenue at the end of the tour.
We discuss zoning laws and POPS (privately-owned-public- spaces) at Worldwide Plaza.
15 minutes
2
Times Square
At the Citizen Hotel in tims Square we discuss the history of New York and its move uptown.
In the hotel lobby we see works by Julien Opie
15 minutes
3
Times Square
787 Axa Equitable (now, BNP Paribas). Here we deconstruct a Roy Lichtenstein mural, then head out back to more works of art and 6 1/2 Avenue, a quirk of zoning and creative urban planning.
4
Midtown
We pass into an underground tunnel netwoek that links a series of Midtown Manhattan corportate lobbies with stunning works of art, from Frank Stell and Fritz Glarner to Sarah Morris and Mark Bradford.
Skyscraper Alley is the nickname for these buildings by Wallace Harrison, part of the consortium of architects who built rockefeller Center.
30 minutes
5
Rockefeller Center
We pass through Rockefeller Center and along the way discuss the fascinating, inordinate history, incuding: Columbia University, holdouts, Alexander Hamilton, Diego Rivera, radio and televison, the Rockefellers themselves , the architectural genius of Raymod Hood, and an incredible array of art. One key to understanding the hisotry of Modern architecture is in Rockefeller Center's program of art, not ornament, in its architecture (thoguh we'll see where John. D. Rockefeller Jr. won out over his architects and got a bit of ornament in his buildings)
30 minutes
6
St. Patrick's Cathedral
You will always remember the view up the escalator to behold St. Patrick's Cathdrel across the Street.
We admire one of New York's most beautiful spaces, the last room in Rockefeller Center before heading out on Fifth Avenue.
Becuase they are long gone, pictures bring back the era when Venderbilt manisons stretched from this part of Fifth Avenue up to Central Park.
15 minutes
7
Fifth Avenue
We discuss the history of Fifth Avenue and its periods of development.
8
Olympic Tower
We pass through the POPS of Olympic Tower and depending. We may use this time to discuss history or architecture if seating is availabe,
20 minutes
9
Seagram Building
This building represents the height of Modern architecture; we put it in context with the development of the rest of the block.
10 minutes
10
Park Avenue
There's a tone of hiostry to talk about here: Grand Central Terminal, the grid, the transformation of Park Avenue, twice! And the current "history" underway.
20 minutes
11
Monkey Bar
A must see stop on the tour.
3 minutes
12
Midtown
The tour ends with two of New York's most prized POPS that are across the street from each other: 550 Madison and the IBM building's POPS.
