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Midtown East — Grand Central to Turtle Bay · 12 stops
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Midtown East — Grand Central to Turtle Bay

Midtown, New York

12 stops · ~17 min

🚶 Walking tour📍 GPS guided⤓ Audio works offline

About 55 min walk · 12 stories · Free

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

Twelve stories from the Morgan Library to Turtle Bay Gardens — the public library, Grand Central's facade, the Chanin and Daily News buildings and the United Nations.

Free to use for a limited period.
Stops
1
Belle da Costa Greene
The librarian who ran Morgan's treasure house
2
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
A department store turned public library
3
One Vanderbilt
The tower that paid for the subway
4
Glory of Commerce
Three stone giants and a glass clock
5
The Pan Am Building
Helicopters on the roof of Midtown
6
The Graybar Building Rats
Bronze rats climbing the mooring lines
7
The Chanin Building
A bronze history of life, at street level
8
The Daily News Building
A spinning globe and Superman's newsroom
9
The Ford Foundation Garden
A glass house with a forest inside
10
The Knotted Gun
A revolver tied in a knot for John Lennon
11
Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
A road to the UN, turned into a garden
12
Turtle Bay Gardens
Twenty houses sharing one secret garden
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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.
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