2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
12 people
English
A very modern trading hub, it is steeped in American History dating back to the 17th century – both triumphal and shameful. Its iconic skyscrapers are built alongside historic buildings like the Federal Hall. From the American Revolution to the Slave Trade, the founding of the New York Stock Exchange to the Great Depression, becoming the global financial superpower to the tragic events of 9/11, Wall Street is full of the stories that have made, broken, and remade modern America, and the wider world. Enjoy an immersive and fascinating private walking tour of New York City’s famous financial district known around the world simply as ‘Wall Street’. A busy and vibrant area filled with historic buildings and skyscrapers, it borders the bright lights of theatrical Broadway and is steeped in America’s history, both tragic and triumphant.
Spend time where the Bill of Rights was written at the Federal Hall National Memorial
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Visit Battery Park, which played host to the British Army’s ‘Evacuation Day’ of 1783 as the “world turned upside down.”
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Walking within the heart of the old Dutch City, you will also venture down Broad Street – built on the site of a filled-in Dutch canal – to Fraunces Tavern where George Washington dismissed his officers in 1783.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
See George Washington’s pew in St Paul’s Chapel
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Walk through nearby Zuccotti Park – where the first coffee house was established in 1696 and where the first mass protests against British taxation, the Tea Act, and the East India Trading Company took place.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free