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East Village — Bowery to Tompkins Square · 11 stops
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East Village — Bowery to Tompkins Square

Midtown, New York

11 stops · ~15 min

🚶 Walking tour📍 GPS guided⤓ Audio works offline

About 45 min walk · 11 stories · Free

Start: CBGB — — Directions
The walk starts at CBGB. 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 CBGB. Directions
  3. Press Start, then just walk. Each story plays when you reach it.

Eleven stories from CBGB to the General Slocum Memorial — the Merchant's House, the Public Theater, Cooper Union, McSorley's and St.

Free to use for a limited period.
Stops
1
CBGB
where punk found a home on the Bowery
2
Merchant's House Museum
a family home frozen for a century
3
The Public Theater
a free library reborn as a stage
4
The Astor Place Riot
Shakespeare, class rage, and gunfire, 1849
5
Lincoln at Cooper Union
the speech that made a president
6
McSorley's Old Ale House
light or dark, and no ladies until 1970
7
Ottendorfer Library
Little Germany's gift that still lends books
8
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
Peter Stuyvesant never left
9
Veselka
a rainbow on the corner since 1954
10
Tompkins Square, August 1988
the night the park fought back
11
The General Slocum Memorial
Little Germany's day of grief
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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.