1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
15 people
English
Start your day in New York City off with a morning run through Times Square. While going on a run in a new city can be intimidating, by joining a group of fellow runners and a guide you can squeeze in a jog while also sightseeing. Plus, a running tour enables you to maximize your time: see more than you could on a walking tour while still avoiding getting stuck in traffic.
While Grand Central Terminal stands today as one of New York City’s most famous landmarks, it was by no means the first railroad station in New York City. In fact, the current structure is neither the first to claim the name “Grand Central” or to occupy the present location at 42nd and Park.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it from 1930.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square entered the nation’s consciousness in 1904, when it was renamed after the New York Times building that became the cornerstone of the new district.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
“Tudor City” takes its name from England’s Tudor Dynasty (1485-1603) a Golden Age of Arts and Letters. Before Tudor City, tenements and slums dominated the area, which bordered a power plant and slaughterhouses, along First Avenue on the East River.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
City Running Tours
• Admission Ticket Free
The idea for the UN was espoused in declarations signed at the wartime Allied conferences in Moscow, Cairo, and Tehran in 1943.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
St. Patrick’s Cathedral was opened formally on May 25, 1879. The newspapers hailed the new Cathedral as “the noblest temple ever raised in any land to the memory of Saint Patrick, and as the glory of Catholic America.”
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
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