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New York City
Grand Central's ceiling has the night sky painted backwards.
Five boroughs, one impossible density of stories: the park that was engineered to look accidental, the terminal that was saved by a First Lady, the bridge that killed its own designer.
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Can I get an audio guide for New York City? Written guides live · audio in production. There are 42 written guides for New York City on G20X, with audio in production. Every standard guide is free in full, with no signup; membership adds offline and no ads.
All 42 guides in New York City
Every one is free to listen to in full.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Arthur Avenue
Battery Park
Battery Park Staten Island Ferry
Bronx Zoo
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Museum
Central Park
Chelsea Market
Chinatown Nyc
Chinatown
City Island
Empire State Building
Empire State
Fort Tryon Park
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal
Green-Wood Cemetery
Greenwich Village
The High Line
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Memorial Museum NYC
Museum of Modern Art
New York Transit Museum
Noguchi Museum
One World Trade Center 911 Museum
One World Trade Center
Prospect Park
Rockaway Beach
Rockefeller Center
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
SoHo
Staten Island Greenbelt
Statue Liberty NYC
Statue of Liberty
The High Line Broadway NYC: Elevated Park Walk
The Met
Times Square
Wall Street
Wave Hill
Yankee Stadium
Ready-made days in New York City
Each one is an order, a timing, and a free audio guide at every stop.
Lower Manhattan on Foot
The harbour, the money, and the hole in the ground — all within a mile.
See the route →Midtown, the Postcard Mile
Four buildings everybody recognises, in the order that makes them walkable.
See the route →The Green Line: High Line to the Met
Two parks and a museum, with the city underneath instead of around you.
See the route →What we cover first
- Central Park
- Grand Central Terminal
- Brooklyn Bridge
- The Met
Written guides live on this city
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Grand Central's ceiling has the night sky painted backwards.