New York City Self-Guided Audio Tour

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: 599 Broadway, New York City, NY 10012-3235

Broadway is one of the busiest streets in New York. Origin

ally a track that allowed passage

across the island’s swamplands, it has transformed into one of the most well
-

known

thoroughfares in the world.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Times Square, Broadway, New York City, NY 10036

In 1904, the offices of the New York Times newspaper were moved to 42nd Street on what

was th

en called Longacre Square. The influence of the newspaper and the volume of

employees it brought here led to the construction of a subway station, as well as the

renaming of the area to Times Square.


Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: James A. Farley Post Office, 421 8th Ave, New York City, NY 10001

The James Farley Post Offi

ce is the main post office building in New York City. Above the

Corinthian colonnade at the building’s front the words "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor

gloom of night stays these couriers from swift completion of their appointed rounds" are

inscribed.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Empire State Building, 20 West 34th Street, New York City, NY 10118-0114

The Empire State Building is one of the country's most popular skyscraper buildin

gs.

Named after the State of New York itself, it is another of the city’s buildings which

epitomizes the roaring 1920s.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: 1 Herald Square at 34th Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City, NY 10001-2902

Herald Square is named for the

New York Herald,

a no longer functioning newspaper,

which was founded by James Gordon

Bennett in 1835. The newspaper, famous for its

sensational coverage of scandals and for its widespread circulation, stopped its publishing

in 1924

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington and 42nd St., New York City, NY 10174

The Chrysler Building is one of the most majestic and beautiful skyscrapers in America, if

not the world. As a structure, fewer buildings encapsulate the optimism or commercia

lism

of the American 1920s more than this building.


Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: 59th to 110th Street Manhattan Borough, from Central Park West to 5th Avenue, New York City, NY 10022

Centr

al Park is the first landscaped public recreation area in the United States. Fully

completed in 1859, the immense green expanse in the middle of the city has offered a

retreat to tourists and locals alike for well over 150 years.

Duration: 15 minutes