Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in New York, United States

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.2 km
Ascend 325 m
Descend 344 m

Experience New York in United States in a whole new way with our 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: Rubin Museum of Art

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The Rubin Museum of Art, also known as the Rubin Museum, is dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art and cultures of the Himalayas, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and other regions within Eurasia, with a permanent collection focused particularly on Tibetan art. The museum opened in 2004 at 150 West 17th Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It announced the closure of its New York City building in October 2024, to become a virtual museum.

Wikipedia: Rubin Museum of Art (EN), Website

656 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Jackson Square Park

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Jackson Square Park is an urban park in the Greenwich Village Historic District in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The 0.227 acres (920 m2) park is bordered by 8th Avenue on the west, Horatio Street on the south, and Greenwich Avenue on the east. The park interrupts West 13th Street.

Wikipedia: Jackson Square Park (EN)

868 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Little Island

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Little Island at Pier 55 is an artificial island and a public park within Hudson River Park, just off the western coast of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is near the intersection of West Street and West 13th Street in the Meatpacking District and Chelsea neighborhoods of Manhattan. It is located atop Hudson River's Pier 55, connected to the rest of Hudson River Park by footbridges at 13th and 14th Streets. Little Island has two concession stands, a small stage, and a 687-seat amphitheater.

Wikipedia: Little Island at Pier 55 (EN), Website

765 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: David Zwirner

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David Zwirner NYU FC 2 (Wikis Take Manhattan 2009 participant) / CC BY-SA 3.0

David Zwirner Gallery is an American contemporary art gallery owned by David Zwirner. It has four gallery spaces in New York City and one each in Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Paris.

Wikipedia: David Zwirner Gallery (EN), Website

227 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Kurimanzutto Gallery

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Kurimanzutto is an art gallery located in Mexico City and New York City specializing in contemporary art that represents 33 international artists. It was founded in 1999 by Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri as a gallery without a fixed space. In 2006 it occupied a warehouse in the Colonia Condesa which served as a project space and workshop. In 2008 it opened its main gallery space in Mexico City in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood and in 2018 it opened a project space in New York City.

Wikipedia: Kurimanzutto (EN)

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Hales Gallery

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Hales Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located on Bethnal Green Road in Shoreditch owned by Paul Hedge and Paul Maslin. Hales Gallery opened in 1992 in Deptford, South London, before moving to the Tea Building, in Shoreditch, London's East End in 2004 and later opening a second space in Chelsea, New York City in 2018.

Wikipedia: Hales Gallery (EN), Website

134 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Jack Shainman Gallery

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Jack Shainman Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City. The gallery was founded by Jack Shainman and his then-partner Claude Simard (1956—2014) in 1984 in Washington, D.C. The gallery has a focus on artists from Africa, East Asia, and North America.

Wikipedia: Jack Shainman Gallery (EN), Website

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Galleria Ca' d'Oro

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Galleria Ca' d'Oro is an international contemporary art gallery curated and organized by Gloria Porcella. The gallery was founded in Rome by Antonio Porcella in 1970, and currently has three locations in Rome, Miami, and New York City.

Wikipedia: Galleria Ca' d'Oro (EN), Website

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Gagosian

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Gagosian Kazuhisa OTSUBO / CC BY 2.0

The Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Larry Gagosian. The gallery exhibits some of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. There are 18 gallery spaces – six in New York City, two in London, three in Paris, and one each in Basel, Gstaad, Beverly Hills, Rome, Athens, Geneva and Hong Kong.

Wikipedia: Gagosian Gallery (EN), Website

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Church of the Guardian Angel

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The Church of the Guardian Angel is a Roman Catholic church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 193 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Wikipedia: Church of the Guardian Angel (Manhattan) (EN)

563 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Kasmin Gallery

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The Kasmin Gallery, formerly known as the Paul Kasmin Gallery, is a New York City fine art gallery, founded in SoHo in 1989.

Wikipedia: Kasmin Gallery (EN), Website

179 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Chelsea Park

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Chelsea ParkEden, Janine and Jim from New York City / CC BY 2.0

Chelsea Park is a park in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, that dates back to 1910. The park has sports fields, basketball and handball courts, a children's playground and space for sitting. The surface is mostly tarmac or artificial turf, with pits for the plane trees and some plots with annual flower plantings. There is a statue to a World War I soldier, the "Doughboy Statue", erected in 1921. The process of approval, funding and clearing the tenements that occupied the site was protracted. The park has since been upgraded several times by the Works Progress Administration and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Wikipedia: Chelsea Park (EN), Website

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Church of the Holy Apostles

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The Church of the Holy Apostles is an Episcopal parish located at 296 Ninth Avenue at 28th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Its historic church building was built from 1845 to 1848, and was designed by New York architect Minard Lafever. The geometric stained-glass windows were designed by William Jay Bolton. The church faces Chelsea Park across 9th Avenue. The building is a New York City landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Church of the Holy Apostles (Manhattan) (EN), Website

376 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Magnet Theater

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Magnet Theater

The Magnet Theater is an improvisational comedy theatre and improv school in New York City.

Wikipedia: Magnet Theater (EN), Website

255 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Madison Square Garden

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Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from 31st to 33rd Street above Pennsylvania Station. It is the fourth venue to bear the name "Madison Square Garden"; the first two, opened in 1879 and 1890 respectively, were located on Madison Square, on East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, with the third Madison Square Garden (1925) farther uptown at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street.

Wikipedia: Madison Square Garden (EN), Website

159 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Moynihan Train Hall

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Moynihan Train Hall

Moynihan Train Hall is an expansion of Pennsylvania Station, the main intercity and commuter rail station in New York City, into the city's former main post office building, the James A. Farley Building. Located between Eighth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, 31st Street, and 33rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, the annex provides new access to most of Penn Station's platforms for Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road passengers, serving 17 of the station's 21 tracks. The hall is named after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. senator who had originally championed the plan. The building's Beaux-Arts exterior resembles that of the original Penn Station; both buildings were designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White.

Wikipedia: Moynihan Train Hall (EN)

774 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 17: Herald Square

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Herald SquareJazz Guy from New Jersey, United States / CC BY 2.0

Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct New York Herald, a newspaper formerly headquartered there, it also gives its name to the surrounding area. The bow tie-shaped intersection consists of two named sections: Herald Square to the north (uptown) and Greeley Square to the south (downtown).

Wikipedia: Herald Square (EN), Website

393 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Koreatown

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Koreatown, or K-Town, is an ethnic Korean enclave in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, centered on 32nd Street between Madison Avenue and the intersection with Sixth Avenue and Broadway, which is known as Greeley Square. The neighborhood in Midtown South features over 150 businesses of various types and sizes, ranging from small restaurants and beauty salons to large branches of Korean banking conglomerates. Koreatown, Manhattan, has become described as the "Korean Times Square" and has emerged as the international economic outpost for the Korean chaebol.

Wikipedia: Koreatown, Manhattan (EN)

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Hotel Wolcott

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The Hotel Wolcott is a hotel at 4 West 31st Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Constructed between 1902 and 1904 by developer William C. Dewey, it was designed by John H. Duncan in the French Beaux-Arts and neoclassical styles. The hotel's namesake was Henry Roger Wolcott, a businessman, politician, and philanthropist. The hotel is a New York City designated landmark.

Wikipedia: Hotel Wolcott (EN), Website, Heritage Website

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Marble Collegiate Church

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Marble Collegiate Church

The Marble Collegiate Church, founded in 1628, is one of the oldest continuous Protestant congregations in North America. The congregation, which is part of two denominations in the Reformed tradition—the United Church of Christ and the Reformed Church in America—is located at 272 Fifth Avenue at the corner of West 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in 1851–54 and was designed by Samuel A. Warner in Romanesque Revival style with Gothic trim. The façade is covered in Tuckahoe marble, for which the church, originally called the Fifth Avenue Church, was renamed in 1906.

Wikipedia: Marble Collegiate Church (EN), Website

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Museum of Sex

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Museum of Sex

The Museum of Sex, also known as MoSex, is a sex museum located at 233 Fifth Avenue at the corner of East 27th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It opened on October 5, 2002.

Wikipedia: Museum of Sex (EN), Website

233 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: General Worth Monument

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The General William Jenkins Worth Monument is a granite obelisk by James G. Batterson, installed in Manhattan's Worth Square, in the U.S. state of New York.

Wikipedia: General William Jenkins Worth Monument (EN), Website

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 23: Madison Square Park

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Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for Founding Father James Madison, fourth President of the United States. The focus of the square is Madison Square Park, a 6.2-acre (2.5-hectare) public park, which is bounded on the east by Madison Avenue ; on the south by 23rd Street; on the north by 26th Street; and on the west by Fifth Avenue and Broadway as they cross.

Wikipedia: Madison Square and Madison Square Park (EN), Website

950 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 24: Church of the Incarnation

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The Church of the Incarnation is a historic Episcopal church at 205–209 Madison Avenue at the northeast corner of 35th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The church was founded in 1850 as a chapel of Grace Church located at 28th Street and Madison. In 1852, it became an independent parish, and in 1864–1865 the parish built its own sanctuary at its current location.

Wikipedia: Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal (Manhattan) (EN)

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 25: The Morgan Library & Museum

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The Morgan Library & Museum is a museum and research library at 225 Madison Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, U.S. Completed in 1906 as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan, the institution has more than 350,000 objects. As of 2024, the museum is directed by Colin B. Bailey and governed by a board of trustees.

Wikipedia: Morgan Library & Museum (EN), Website

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Joseph Raphael De Lamar House

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Joseph Raphael De Lamar HouseCliffy from Pelham, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Joseph Raphael De Lamar House is a mansion at 233 Madison Avenue at the corner of 37th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The house, currently the Consulate General of Poland, New York City, was built in 1902–1905 and was designed by C. P. H. Gilbert in the Beaux-Arts style. The De Lamar Mansion marked a stark departure from Gilbert's traditional style of French Gothic architecture and was instead robustly Beaux-Arts, heavy with rusticated stonework, balconies, and a colossal mansard roof. The mansion is the largest in Murray Hill, and one of the most spectacular in the city; the interiors are as lavish as the exterior.

Wikipedia: Joseph Raphael De Lamar House (EN)

243 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: Church of Our Saviour

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Church of Our Saviour is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 59 Park Avenue and 38th Street in Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1955. In 2015, the parish was renamed Our Saviour and St. Stephen/Our Lady of the Scapular after it merged with the parish of St. Stephen/Our Lady of the Scapular. The parish includes a mission church, the Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary at 325 East 33rd Street, which had previously merged with St. Stephen/Our Lady of the Scapular.

Wikipedia: Our Saviour Roman Catholic Church (Manhattan) (EN), Website

349 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 28: Pershing Square

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Pershing Square is a public plaza in Manhattan, New York City, located where Park Avenue and 42nd Street intersect in front of Grand Central Terminal. The main roadway of Park Avenue crosses over 42nd Street on the Park Avenue Viaduct, also known as the Pershing Square Viaduct. Two service roads, one northbound and one southbound, connect 42nd Street with the main roadway of Park Avenue, at 40th Street.

Wikipedia: Pershing Square, Manhattan (EN)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 29: Grand Central Terminal

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Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York metropolitan area. It also contains a connection to the Long Island Rail Road through the Grand Central Madison station, a 16-acre (65,000 m2) rail terminal underneath the Metro-North station, built from 2007 to 2023. The terminal also connects to the New York City Subway at Grand Central–42nd Street station. The terminal is the third-busiest train station in North America, after New York Penn Station and Toronto Union Station.

Wikipedia: Grand Central Terminal (EN), Website

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 30: Chrysler Building

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The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. At 1,046 ft (319 m), it is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework, and it was the world's tallest building for 11 months after its completion in 1930. As of 2019, the Chrysler is the 12th-tallest building in the city, tied with The New York Times Building.

Wikipedia: Chrysler Building (EN)

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