Urban Walks

Urban Walks Award-winning app helps you explore New York like never before and lets you discover a mix of well-known landmarks and hidden gems at your own pace.

Get it on the Urban Walks app: https://appsto.re/us/bTlA4.i

Good morning NY! Apologies for the long hiatus, we hope you have been enjoying your summer — and made use of our eight u...
08/27/2017

Good morning NY! Apologies for the long hiatus, we hope you have been enjoying your summer — and made use of our eight unique tours from Grand Central to East Village to Chinatown, (available, as always, on the Urban Walks app)!
🚩Click the link in our bio to download Urban Walks and enjoy over 20 hours of hand-picked New York wonders

Fact no. 45: the Northern Spur Preserve is a small appendix to the The High Line that stops at a wall (there used to be ...
04/11/2017

Fact no. 45: the Northern Spur Preserve is a small appendix to the The High Line that stops at a wall (there used to be an entrance here to a warehouse which stored frozen foods). This section of the High Line is recreated to appear just as it would have before the park’s reconstruction 🌾. Here, you can see the original greenery that sprouted all over the High Line prior to its complete overhaul.
🚩Walk the High Line tour and get a look at the rich history of the park and the Meatpacking district on the Urban Walks app: simply click 🔗 in bio to download.

The 😮✨ view from the Google Headquarters: Google’s main New York office, housed in an immense 15-story building that str...
04/03/2017

The 😮✨ view from the Google Headquarters: Google’s main New York office, housed in an immense 15-story building that stretches between 8th and 9th Avenue and 15th and 16th Street. In fact, it is one of the largest constructions in the entire city, ranking fourth (!) in size, and the building's overall area is, believe it or not, larger than that of the Empire State Building.
🚩We're always glad to showcase your shots and New York / Urban Walks experiences — don't be shy, tag us!
See more of the Google Headquarters and 18 other locations on our High Line + Meatpacking district by clicking the 🔗 in our bio to download the app. (Don't fret, all tours are available for offline download, no cell reception or wi-fi needed)

It's still one of the 30 tallest buildings in New York and one of 100 tallest in the entire country ☝️🙇
03/12/2017

It's still one of the 30 tallest buildings in New York and one of 100 tallest in the entire country ☝️🙇

Besides the fashionable bobbed women shown in Joan Sloan's 1928 «Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street», the painting fe...
02/25/2017

Besides the fashionable bobbed women shown in Joan Sloan's 1928 «Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street», the painting features the historic elevated railway that ran from W 59th St to Rector St, demolished in 1939. Bonus points for spotting the tower of Jefferson Market, which, thankfully, still stands. Erected in 1877, the building served as a courthouse, a library, the set of a Stella McCartney fashion show, and a women's prison. Among the prison's well-known inmates were political activist Angela Davis, alledged spy Ethel Rosenberg, and the woman behind Warhol's failed assassination, Valerie Solanas. Read out more about the Jefferson Market on our mobile walking tour of Greenwich Village by clicking the link in our bio. It's unique, fact-checked, and available for offline download.
🚩 Click https://appsto.re/us/bTlA4.i to download on the App Store

Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, completed in 1943, is a veritable ode to New York: electric, syncopated, alive. ...
02/24/2017

Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, completed in 1943, is a veritable ode to New York: electric, syncopated, alive.
Discover the city for yourself with Urban Walks — click https://appsto.re/us/bTlA4.i and take your pick of walking tours! We've got 10 of them readily available: unique fact-checked histories, offline access, custom maps, and all.

Hugh Ferriss' charcoal study, somewhat dispassionately named «Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law #4...
02/23/2017

Hugh Ferriss' charcoal study, somewhat dispassionately named «Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law #4», seems to come straight from Fritz Lang's moodboard for «Metropolis» or a New Yorker's nightmare (just remember: some are still upset over the MetLife building). Ferriss, however, saw a poetry in these steel-glass behemoths, describing them in his 1929 book The Metropolis of Tomorrow as: «A mineral kingdom. Gleaming stalagmites. Forms as cold as ice. Mathematics. Night in the Science zone».
There's never just one side to New York. Discover it with us on the free Urban Walks app by clicking https://appsto.re/us/bTlA4.i

Today, the annual Lunar Year Parade will take place in Chinatown, marking the end of celebrations of the Lunar New Year....
02/05/2017

Today, the annual Lunar Year Parade will take place in Chinatown, marking the end of celebrations of the Lunar New Year. 🎎🏮🎉 Here’s now decorations for the holiday looked 117 years ago (you can bet there will be many much more of that today). The official procession began around one o’clock on Canal St. Though the holiday is often called the Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year days are public holidays in Indonesia, Vietnam, North Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines, among others.
🚩 It’s also a pretty good reason to get Urban Walk’s Chinatown + Little Italy tour, already available on the app — https://appsto.re/us/bTlA4.i

Image credit: Bain News Service, Publisher. Chinese New Year Decorations. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

In 1827, the Five Points neighborhood (pictured on the map)topped New York statistics charts in four categories: highest...
02/01/2017

In 1827, the Five Points neighborhood (pictured on the map)
topped New York statistics charts in four categories:
highest child mortality rate, population density,
unemployment and prostitution.

🚩 Check out more of New York's history on the Urban Walks app, available on the App Store: https://appsto.re/us/bTlA4.i

After an absence, Urban Walks is back — with a new tour of Little Italy and Chinatown! 🍜+🍝Everything you wanted to know ...
02/01/2017

After an absence, Urban Walks is back — with a new tour of Little Italy and Chinatown! 🍜+🍝
Everything you wanted to know about the deadliest intersection in America, Frank Sinatra’s bread preferences, and secret underground tunnels (plus, of course, the best places to wine, dine, relax, and learn).
🚩Available on the Urban Walks app: https://appsto.re/us/bTlA4.i

To celebrate One Year Anniversary of Urban Walks application launch we give away 3 our tours!Use this promo-codes to get...
03/24/2016

To celebrate One Year Anniversary of Urban Walks application launch we give away 3 our tours!

Use this promo-codes to get any of three tours we had at launch for free (codes are valid until April 1):
1) 1year_grandcentral - for Grand Central to Rockefeller
2) 1year_midtown - for Midtown North
3) 1year_downtown - for Manhattan Downtown

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https://itunes.apple.com/app/urban-walks-walking-tours/id946387777

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