Explore the Ruins of a Forgotten City in the Middle of Manhattan Walking Tour

Itinerary
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Stop At: Flatiron Building, 175 5th Ave At 23rd St., New York City, NY 10010-7703

This walking tour looks at the Gilded Age that flourished in this neighborhood as a fashionable world class city center from the 1870s to the 1910s. We spend a few minutes at the start of the tour giving it a context within the greater history.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Madison Square Park, Between 23rd and 26 streets and Madison and Fifth Avenues, New York City, NY 10010

We look and learn at how history evolved to create the city streetscapes around the park today.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY

We walk the blocks of Fifth Avenue between 23rd and 18th Streets, decoding the buildings as we go. What they were built for, how they have changed. This went from an upper class residential history to an upper class carriage trade/manufactoring center. A beautiful array of Beaux Arts, earlier era, business district buildings.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: 599 Broadway, New York City, NY 10012-3235

Broadways fascinating "mixed use" history along the few blocks between Madison Square and Union Square, where old modest homes and mansions mixed incredible French Second Empire style and Beaux Arts buildings from an earlier era.

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, 28 E 20th St between Broadway and Park Avenue South, New York City, NY 10003-1311

We see how the former President's life fits in with the history

Stop At: Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), New York City, NY

The blocks of Sixth Avenue from 18th to 23rd Streets are an incredibly well preserved set of old beautiful department stores and shopping emporia.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), New York City, NY

We then cross 23rd street going north and enter into the old Tenderloin, the adult entertainment part of town in an era before television, radio, and even telephones, that thrived for about 30 years on this side of Broadway.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Hotel Wolcott, 4 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001, USA

A jewel of the Gilded Age is the lobby and restaurant/ballroom of the Hotel Wolcott. The over-the-top, incredible interiors are representative of a number of such relics in the area.

Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: 230 FIFTH ROOFTOP BAR NYC, 230 5th Ave Corner 27th street on 5th ave, New York City, NY 10001-7704

Simply pass by

Pass By: 599 Broadway, New York City, NY 10012-3235

We then cross over Broadway, back to the (historically) more respectable part of town.

Pass By: Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY

The final leg of the tour are the 10 blocks between the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building. These blocks are the Rosetta Stone of New York history, containing buildings from every era passing through in the city's move uptown.

Pass By: Manhattan Unlocked Historical and Architectural Walking Tours, Times square New York, New York, New York City, NY 10036

Manhattan Unlocked Tours lets the built environment, that is, the architectural makeup of the streetscapes, tell the history of New York City.

Pass By: Empire State Building, 20 West 34th Street, New York City, NY 10118-0114

The site of the original Waldorf-Astoria, and before that, residences of Astor brothers, the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world for 40 years.