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Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour
Manhattan
À propos
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.
Points forts
De 3 heures à 4 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
De 3 heures à 4 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Guide expert
Gratuities
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
810 8th Ave
We meet in front of the Food Emporium supermarket on the northeast corner of 49th Street and 8th Avenue.
Retour
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.
Informations importantes
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Les nourrissons et les jeunes enfants peuvent voyager dans une poussette ou un landau
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Animaux d'assistance autorisés
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Des options de transport en commun sont disponibles à proximité
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Déconseillé aux voyageurs souffrant de lésions de la colonne vertébrale
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Déconseillé aux femmes enceintes
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Déconseillé aux voyageurs ayant une mauvaise santé cardiovasculaire
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Les voyageurs doivent avoir au moins un niveau modéré de forme physique
Politique d'annulation
Pour un remboursement complet, annulez au moins 24 heures avant l'heure de départ prévue.
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Pour un remboursement complet, vous devez annuler au moins 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience.
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Les délais limites sont basés sur l'heure locale de l'expérience.
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Si vous annulez moins de 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience, le montant que vous avez payé ne sera pas remboursé.
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Cette expérience nécessite un nombre minimum de voyageurs. Si elle est annulée parce que le minimum n'est pas atteint, on vous proposera une autre date/expérience ou un remboursement intégral.
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Toute modification effectuée moins de 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience ne sera pas acceptée.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
Centre Rockefeller
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
Cathédrale Saint-Patrick
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
Cinquième Avenue
We discuss the history of Fifth Avenue and its periods of development.
0 minute
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
Avenue du Parc
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.
20 minutes
Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour
Manhattan
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À propos
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.
Points forts
De 3 heures à 4 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
De 3 heures à 4 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Guide expert
Gratuities
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
810 8th Ave
We meet in front of the Food Emporium supermarket on the northeast corner of 49th Street and 8th Avenue.
Retour
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.