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Seller: RichFamous
(Rich and Famous Tours)
Seller Description:
Jim Dykes & Mike Brennan, founding guides of New York's Rich & Famous Tours are MORE than just dedicated New Yorkers and NYC guides--they are true professionals with over 50 years between them of experience showing visitors the best New York City has to offer!
Rich & Famous Tours are truly filled with much insider's information! History, architecture and details you can't get from the guidebooks!
Rich & Famous guide and co-founder Jim Dykes once found Steven Spielberg was so interested in his tour, he tagged along--for several blocks! After Liz Smith and other showbiz columns mentioned this, Joan Rivers introduced Dykes as "the Celebrity tourguide--just fabulous!"
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Activity Information:
Activity Description
See Ground Zero up close with an expert, licensed New York City guide. Pay your respects and experience where this terrible event in modern history happened.
On this guided walking tour of lower Manhattan and Ground Zero, you'll view:
- The World Trade Center 16-acre site from all angles possible, including upstairs, downstairs, above and all 4 sides
- The only remaining section of the World Trade Center, where you'll be able to walk around
- St. Paul's Chapel: the chapel that stood while the towers fell, and where George Washington worshipped
- The perfect cross made of steel beams found in the WTC wreckage of Tower 1
- The first of the new World Trade Center towers---already up and occupied!
- NYPD Policemen's & Firemen's Memorials
- The Winter Garden, with palm trees and a peaceful atmosphere completely destroyed on 9/11 and now completely rebuilt.
- Architect's models and renderings of the new World Trade Center & memorial!
You'll also see other famous locations of lower Manhattan, such as: the Irish Hunger Memorial - dedicated to the potato famine of the Irish immigrants, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from a distance, Trinity Church and Alexander Hamilton's grave.
Heading over to Wall Street, we visit Federal Hall, where you can stand on the spot where George Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, the New York Stock Exchange, the Charging Bull, Cesar Peli's spectacular World Financial Center complex built on 97 acres of landfill, and much more!
What Is Not Included?
A metrocard good for traveling downtown together on the New York City subway system. Each ride is $2.00 per person. It is recommended (although not required) that each tour participant already have a metrocard prior to the tour's start time.
We will also have a break during the tour at the Winter Garden where you'll be able to purchase something to eat or drink. Please bring extra cash with you, if you're interested in buying a snack during this time.
Meeting Location:
Rockefeller Plaza-West 49th St. (New York City, NY)
(Exact meeting location details will be provided immediately upon purchase of tickets.)
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