Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #14 in New York, United States

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Number of sights 24 sights
Distance 6.7 km
Ascend 205 m
Descend 179 m

Experience New York in United States in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in New YorkIndividual Sights in New York

Sight 1: Circle Line

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Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises is a boat-based sightseeing and entertainment company in Manhattan, New York. Its principal business is operating guided tours of New York City from its base at Pier 83 in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.

Wikipedia: Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises (EN), Website

435 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: USS Growler

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USS Growler

USS Growler (SSG-577) was an early attempt by the U.S. Navy to field a cruise missile submarine that would provide a nuclear deterrent using its second series of cruise missiles. Built to deliver the Regulus I cruise missile, Growler was the second and final submarine of the Grayback class, fourth boat of the United States Navy to be named after the growler. Since Regulus I and Regulus II programs had problems, Growler and Grayback were the only two submarines built in this class as instead, the U.S. Navy veered its nuclear deterrence efforts into submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—the Polaris missile program.

Wikipedia: USS Growler (SSG-577) (EN)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: USS Intrepid

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USS Intrepid

USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, including the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Wikipedia: USS Intrepid (CV-11) (EN)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Intrepid Museum

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Intrepid MuseumAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Intrepid Museum is an American military and maritime history museum in New York City. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street, along the Hudson River, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. The museum is mostly composed of exhibits, aircraft, and spacecraft aboard the museum ship USS Intrepid, a World War II–era aircraft carrier, as well as a cruise missile submarine named USS Growler and exhibits on Pier 86. The Intrepid Museum Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization established in 1979, operates the museum.

Wikipedia: Intrepid Museum (EN), Website

741 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: DeWitt Clinton Park

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DeWitt Clinton ParkAmericasroof at en.wikipedia / CC BY 3.0

DeWitt Clinton Park is a 5.8-acre (23,000 m2) New York City public park in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, between West 52nd and 54th Streets, and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.

Wikipedia: DeWitt Clinton Park (EN)

424 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Saints Kyril & Metodi Cathedral

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Saints Kyril & Metodi Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral is the cathedral church and headquarters of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Diocese of the United States, Canada, and Australia. The church is located at 552 West 50th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, Hell's Kitchen / Clinton, Manhattan, New York City.

Wikipedia: Saints Kyril & Metodi Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral (EN), Website

388 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church, located in Hell's Kitchen/Clinton, Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1876, it is a parish of the Archdiocese of New York and is located at 457 West 51st Street. Sacred Heart of Jesus School is located at 456 West 52nd Street.

Wikipedia: Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (New York City) (EN), Website

525 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Founded in 1958, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) is the largest modern dance company in the United States. Based in New York City, the company was founded by Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), a noted choreographer and dancer. The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, which includes AAADT and Ailey II, the Ailey School, Ailey Extension, AileyCamp, and other operations, is housed in the 87,000 square-foot Joan Weill Center for Dance, one of the largest buildings dedicated exclusively to dance in the United States. AAADT is recognized as a vital American cultural ambassador, and has performed for diverse audiences in more than seventy countries around the world.

Wikipedia: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (EN), Website

471 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Church of Saint Paul the Apostle

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The Church of St. Paul the Apostle is a Catholic church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the mother church of the Paulist Fathers, the first religious community of Catholic priests founded in the United States.

Wikipedia: St. Paul the Apostle Church (Manhattan) (EN), Website

352 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: David H. Koch Theater

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David H. Koch TheaterAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet and dance at Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Originally named the New York State Theater, the venue has been home to the New York City Ballet since its opening in 1964, the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall, and served as home to the New York City Opera from 1964 to 2011. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza of Lincoln Center, opposite David Geffen Hall near 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue.

Wikipedia: David H. Koch Theater (EN)

261 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Damrosch Park

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Damrosch Park is a 2.4-acre (0.97 ha) park at Amsterdam Avenue and West 62nd Street in Lincoln Square, Manhattan, New York City. The park, which includes the Guggenheim Bandshell, is on the south side of the Metropolitan Opera House and west of the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Wikipedia: Damrosch Park (EN), Website

46 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Metropolitan Opera House

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Metropolitan Opera HouseAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Metropolitan Opera House is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center, the theater was designed by Wallace K. Harrison. It opened in 1966, replacing the original 1883 Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street. With a seating capacity of approximately 3,850, the house is the largest repertory opera house in the world. Home to the Metropolitan Opera Company, the facility also hosts the American Ballet Theatre in the summer months.

Wikipedia: Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) (EN), Website

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

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Lincoln Center for the Performing ArtsAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School.

Wikipedia: Lincoln Center (EN)

168 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri Photo by Marco Bonavoglia. The sculptor is Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926) / CC BY-SA 3.0

Dante Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, located in the Upper West Side neighborhood in front of Lincoln Center near Central Park.

Wikipedia: Dante Park (EN), Website

200 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Manhattan New York Temple

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The Manhattan New York Temple is the 119th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the church's second "high rise" temple to be constructed, after the Hong Kong China Temple, and the third converted from an existing building, after the Vernal Utah and Copenhagen Denmark temples.

Wikipedia: Manhattan New York Temple (EN), Website

9 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: American Folk Art Museum

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American Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street. It is the premier institution devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.

Wikipedia: American Folk Art Museum (EN), Website

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: David Geffen Hall

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David Geffen HallAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

David Geffen Hall is a concert hall at Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The 2,200-seat auditorium opened in 1962, and is the home of the New York Philharmonic.

Wikipedia: David Geffen Hall (EN), Website

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Lincoln Center Theater

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Lincoln Center TheaterAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Vivian Beaumont Theater is a Broadway theater in the Lincoln Center complex at 150 West 65th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Operated by the nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater (LCT), the Beaumont is the only Broadway theater outside the Theater District near Times Square. Named after heiress and actress Vivian Beaumont Allen, the theater was one of the last structures designed by modernist architect Eero Saarinen. The theater shares a building with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and contains two off-Broadway venues, the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and the Claire Tow Theater.

Wikipedia: Vivian Beaumont Theater (EN), Website

64 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Reclining Figure

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Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) (LH 519) is a statue by Henry Moore. The original two-part bronze statue of a human figure was commissioned for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, where it has been displayed outdoors since 1965 in a pool of water to the north of the new Metropolitan Opera House. Other copies in plaster or bronze exist, and are displayed in other cities.

Wikipedia: Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) (EN)

585 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 20: Sherman Square

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Sherman Square

Sherman Square is a pocket park bounded by Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue, and West 70th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City. It was named in 1891 for William Tecumseh Sherman who lived in the area and died that year.

Wikipedia: Sherman Square (EN), Website

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Church of the Blessed Sacrament

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Church of the Blessed Sacrament

The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 152 West 71st Street, just east of Broadway. The parish was established in 1887.

Wikipedia: Church of the Blessed Sacrament (Manhattan) (EN), Website

421 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 22: Congregation Sherith Israel

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The Congregation Shearith Israel, often called The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 2 West 70th Street, at Central Park West, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.

Wikipedia: Congregation Shearith Israel (EN), Website

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 23: First Church of Christ, Scientist

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The former Second Church of Christ, Scientist is a historic Christian Science church building located at Central Park West and West 68th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, within the Central Park West Historic District. The Beaux-Arts building was designed by architect Frederick R. Comstock and constructed in 1899–1901. The building was restored beginning in 2005 by Sydness Architects which planned to clean the facade, reinforce the stained-glass windows, and waterproof the copper dome and illuminate the skylight.

Wikipedia: Second Church of Christ, Scientist (Manhattan) (EN), Website

469 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 24: Daniel Webster

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An outdoor bronze sculpture of Daniel Webster by Thomas Ball is installed in Central Park, Manhattan, New York. The "larger-than-life-size" statue was commissioned in the 1870s, to be installed along Central Park's Mall. It was instead installed along the West Drive at 72nd Street due to size restrictions. Daniel Webster was presented by Gordon W. Burnham in 1876.

Wikipedia: Statue of Daniel Webster (New York City) (EN), Website

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