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Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour

By Manhattan Unlocked Historical and Architectural Walking Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is $225 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers
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Overview

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.

Activity location
  • Hell's Kitchen
    • New York City, New York, United States
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • Avalon Midtown West
    • 810 8th Avenue
    • 10019, New York, New York, United States

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Private Midtown Manhattan Art and Architecture Walking Tour in English
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • Opening hours: Mon 2:00pm-3:00pm
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
$225.00 x 1 Traveler$225.00
Total
Price is $225.00
Until Sun, Mar 1

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Expert guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Gratuities

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Hell's Kitchen
  • 15m
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.
Times Square
  • 15m
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
Times Square (Pass by)
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.
Midtown
  • 30m
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.
Rockefeller Center
  • 30m
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)
St. Patrick's Cathedral
  • 15m
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.
Fifth Avenue (Pass by)
We discuss the history of Fifth Avenue and its periods of development.
Olympic Tower
  • 20m
We pass through the POPS of Olympic Tower and depending. We may use this time to discuss history or architecture if seating is availabe,
Seagram Building
  • 10m
This building represents the height of Modern architecture; we put it in context with the development of the rest of the block.
Park Avenue
  • 20m
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.
Monkey Bar
  • 3m
A must see stop on the tour.
Midtown
  • 20m
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.

Location

Activity location
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    Hell's Kitchen
    • New York City, New York, United States
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Avalon Midtown West
    • 810 8th Avenue
    • 10019, New York, New York, United States

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