Midtown — Herald Square and Penn Station · 12 stops
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Midtown — Herald Square and Penn Station
Midtown, New York
12 stops · ~16 min
About 50 min walk · 12 stories · Free
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Start: Korea Way — —
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Twelve stories from Koreatown to the Garment District — Macy's, the Gimbels skybridge, the lost Pennsylvania Station, Moynihan Train Hall and Tesla's last home.
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1
Korea Way
One block, stacked several storeys high
2
Greeley Square — Horace Greeley
The editor and the words he never wrote
3
The Gimbels Skybridge
A copper bridge from Macy's great rival
4
The Million-Dollar Corner
The tiny building Macy's never got
5
Herald Square — Minerva and the Bell Ringers
A newspaper's statues, rescued and rehung
6
Macy's Herald Square
Where the parade ends and Santa arrives
7
Saint Francis of Assisi & Father Mychal Judge
A church, a firehouse, and Victim 0001
8
The Lost Pennsylvania Station
The demolition that changed New York
9
Farley Post Office & Moynihan Train Hall
The postal 'motto' that isn't one
10
Manhattan Center — Hammerstein's Opera House
Paid a fortune to stop singing
11
The New Yorker Hotel — Tesla's Last Home
Room 3327 and the pigeons
12
The Big Button & The Garment Worker
Pop art above, the real work below
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