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Harlem — 125th Street · 11 stops
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Harlem — 125th Street

Midtown, New York

11 stops · ~14 min

🚶 Walking tour📍 GPS guided⤓ Audio works offline

About 55 min walk · 11 stories · Free

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

Eleven stories from Masjid Malcolm Shabazz to Langston Hughes House — Minton's Playhouse, the Apollo, Hotel Theresa, Marcus Garvey Park and the fire watchtower.

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Stops
1
Masjid Malcolm Shabazz
The corner where Malcolm X preached
2
Minton's Playhouse
Where bebop was born on Monday nights
3
Harriet Tubman, Swing Low
Moses strides north through Harlem
4
Apollo Theater
Where Harlem's toughest crowd made stars
5
Blumstein's Department Store
A boycott, and King's brush with death
6
Hotel Theresa
The Waldorf of Harlem, and Castro's 1960 stay
7
Studio Museum in Harlem
From a loft over a liquor store
8
Summer of Soul in Marcus Garvey Park
The 1969 festival the world almost forgot
9
Harlem Fire Watchtower
New York's last cast-iron fire lookout
10
The Corn Exchange Bank
A Harlem landmark rebuilt on its own base
11
Langston Hughes House
The poet's top-floor workroom
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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.