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Brooklyn — DUMBO and Fulton Ferry · 12 stops
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Brooklyn — DUMBO and Fulton Ferry

Midtown, New York

12 stops · ~16 min

🚶 Walking tour📍 GPS guided⤓ Audio works offline

About 40 min walk · 12 stories · Free

Start: John and Jay Streets — — Directions
The walk starts at John and Jay Streets. Please use headphones and keep audio private.
Location accessAsked on start

Before you start

  1. Put your headphones in.
  2. Start anywhere in the park. For the full route, begin at John and Jay Streets. Directions
  3. Press Start, then just walk. Each story plays when you reach it.

Twelve stories from Arbuckle's Sugar Refinery to Pier 2 — the Manhattan Bridge, Gleason's Gym, Empire Stores, Washington's escape and the Squibb Park Bridge.

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Stops
1
Arbuckle's Sugar Refinery
a coffee king's weapon in a price war
2
Manhattan Bridge
the bridge that leans with every train
3
Rails in the Granite
the freight line that ran through DUMBO
4
The Archway
a town square inside a bridge
5
Gleason's Gym
where champions and film stars learned to punch
6
The Clock Tower Building
the mail-order giant with a secret owner
7
Empire Stores
the last of Brooklyn's walled city
8
The Tobacco Warehouse
a roofless ruin that became a theater
9
Eagle Warehouse
a brick fortress on Whitman's newspaper site
10
Washington's Escape
the night an army slipped away
11
Squibb Bridge and the Watchtower
three rooftop signs, one hillside
12
Pier 2
the cargo shed that lost to a box
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Map & route

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How this tour works
Autoplay works while this page is open. Bring a charger — GPS and audio use battery over a long tour.