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Flatiron — Union Square to Madison Square · 12 stops
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Flatiron — Union Square to Madison Square

Midtown, New York

12 stops · ~16 min

🚶 Walking tour📍 GPS guided⤓ Audio works offline

About 50 min walk · 12 stories · Free

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

Twelve stories from the Union Square Greenmarket to the Flatiron Building — Pete's Tavern, the 69th Regiment Armory, the Met Life Tower and Liberty's torch.

Free to use for a limited period.
Stops
1
The Union Square Greenmarket
A handful of farmers, then a city habit
2
Washington in Union Square
The oldest statue in the city's parks
3
The Tower of Light
Opera, Tammany, and a glowing clock tower
4
Pete's Tavern
O. Henry's local, and a flower shop that poured drinks
5
The 69th Regiment Armory
Where modern art shocked America
6
Madison Square Garden's First Home
The Garden that gave the arena its name
7
The Appellate Division Courthouse
A marble courthouse crowded with lawgivers
8
The Met Life Tower
Venice's bell tower, stretched to fifty stories
9
Liberty's Torch in Madison Square
Pay a fee, climb the torch
10
Admiral Farragut
Damn the torpedoes, carved in stone
11
The First Shake Shack
A hot dog cart that went global
12
The Flatiron Building
The building they expected to blow over
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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.