Upper East Side — Museum Mile · 12 stops
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Upper East Side — Museum Mile
Midtown, New York
12 stops · ~18 min
About 50 min walk · 12 stories · Free
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Start: The Frick Collection — —
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The walk starts at The Frick Collection. Please use headphones and keep audio private.
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- Start anywhere in the park. For the full route, begin at The Frick Collection. Directions
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Twelve stories from the Frick Collection to the Jewish Museum — Fifth Avenue mansions, the Met, the Neue Galerie, the Guggenheim and Engineers' Gate.
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The Frick Collection
A steel baron's house built to be given away
2
Richard Morris Hunt Memorial
The architect whose park gates were refused
3
Harkness House
The philanthropist who borrowed his neighbour's number
4
James B. Duke House
A tobacco palace and its hidden designer
5
Payne Whitney House
A Michelangelo in the hallway?
6
Fletcher–Sinclair Mansion
One château, four American fortunes
7
The Met — Fifth Avenue facade
The grand front that was never finished
8
Neue Galerie
Where the Woman in Gold came to rest
9
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
A temple of spirit, sixteen years in the making
10
Fred Lebow at Engineers' Gate
The marathon's founder, still checking his watch
11
Carnegie Mansion — Cooper Hewitt
The 'modest' house that named a neighbourhood
12
The Jewish Museum — Warburg Mansion
A château given away with a letter
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