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PUBLIC TOURS
(On select dates we will be offering public walking
tours. For reservations and further information, click the link above.)
About
Our Tours
All tours are led by Michelle or
James Nevius and feature a mix of stops that highlight the history,
architecture, and cultural development of the neighborhood. We are both
historians who believe that the best way to experience New York City is up close and on foot.
Booking
All tours are given exclusively on a private basis so
that you can pick the time and date that best accommodates your schedule. The
tour covers between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half miles in
approximately four hours (which includes time for public transportation). The
tour costs a flat fee of $160 for groups of 1, 2, or 3 people; it is $40.00
per person if your party is larger than four people. Discounts are available
for student groups.
To contact us about
booking this tour
please email
walknyc@gmail.com
or
call (toll-free) 1-877-572-9719
or
in NYC: 212-666-2903
Questions?
Follow
this link to our Frequently Asked Questions page.
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this link for Customer
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The
Skyscrapers of New York
 Chicago may justly claim to be the
birthplace of the skyscraper, but the tall building came of age in New York. There is no
place like Manhattan to see the multifaceted forms, functions, and fashions
of skyscraper architecture, from the days when a 10-story building was
considered daring to the Postmodernist plans for the architectural
redevelopment of the World Trade Center complex.
Ten of the buildings that have claimed the title of
“tallest in the world” have been in New
York and six of them are still extant. We will see
all six of these buildings along with sites of those that are gone (such as
the demolished Singer Building—see postcard below—and Ground Zero).
Participants on this tour will visit five neighborhoods (the Civic Center,
Financial District, Greenwich Village,
Flatiron District, and Midtown), transporting between stops on the subway.
The tour lasts between 3 and 4 hours (depending on how long the subway rides
take), but this is certainly not all walking. Also, in order to
understand skyscraper development in the context of the growth of city as a
whole, we will look at a number of buildings that are not skyscrapers, such
as the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall, the Alexander Hamilton US Custom
House, the Arch in Washington
Square Park,
and the main branch of the New York Public Library. This tour is
specially priced—please see below for full details.
A few of the many skyscrapers seen on this tour
include:*
- The
Park Row Building
- The
Woolworth Building
- The
Marine Midland Bank (now Brown Brothers Harriman)
- One
Liberty Plaza (originally the US Steel
Building)
- 40 Wall
Street (originally
the Manhattan Company)
- The
Bayard-Condict
Building
- One Fifth
Avenue
- The
Flatiron Building
- Lever
House
- The
Seagram Building
- Rockefeller
Center
- The
Chrysler Building
- 4
Times Square (Condé Nast headquarters)
- The
Empire State Building
- This
heavily illustrated tour uses historical photographs from the mid-19th
century onward to show how
 New York
City went—in the space of just of few decades—from a city of eight-story
buildings to having skyscraper upon skyscraper clamoring to be the
tallest in the world.
- PLEASE
NOTE: Because of
post-9/11 security concerns, most of the buildings visited on the
tour—including the Woolworth, Chrysler, and Seagram Buildings—do not
allow interior visitation. The tour can arrange to end at either the Empire State
Building or Rockefeller Center
for those who wish to see those buildings on their own.
* all walking tour itineraries are subject
to change;
Because
this tour covers more ground and takes more time than our standard neighborhood
tours, it costs a flat fee of $160 for
a group of 1, 2, or 3 people or $40
per person if there are more than 4 in your party.
Transportation
We
take the subway at multiple times during the course of tour, and may catch a
bus or two if it’s convenient. Participants can either bring their own MTA
Metrocards, or can purchase them the first time we enter the subway. (Single
rides cost $2.00, or one can purchase a one-day fun pass, good for unlimited
subway and bus rides, for $7.00.)
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