expedia
Skip to Main Content.
List your propertySupportTrips
Member discount illustration

Members save 10% or more on over 100,000 hotels worldwide when you’re signed in

Sign in
Learn about Expedia Rewards
Feedback

Private Tour of the Gilded Age City around Madison Square

By Manhattan Unlocked Historical and Architectural Walking Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is ฿7,299 per traveller* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
See tickets
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview

What visitors will take away from this tour was just how small the Gilded Age city of New York was. Distrcits for shopping and theatres, for the upper and middle classes, were all a block or so away from each other. Not only that, but the apartment building, department store and office tower were all new innovations, and at their social heights in the same place around Madison Square just as telephones and electicty were coming on the scene.

Most fascinating will be the proximity all of these venues, from the carriage trade shops and the homes of familes like the Roosevelts, Astors, and Schermerhorns, were to the blocks of illiicit, often raucous nightlife activity in the old Tenderloin just a few blcoks away.

This is a tour de force of the Gilded Age City of NEw York around Madison Square.

Activity location

  • Flatiron Building
    • 175 5th Avenue
    • 10010, New York, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 175 5th Ave
    • 175 5th Avenue
    • 10010, New York, New York, United States

Check availability

Private Tour of the Gilded Age City around Madison Square in English
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • Opening hours: Tue 14:00-15:00
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
฿7,299.23 x 1 Traveller฿7,299.23
Total
Price is ฿7,299.23
Until Mon, 14 Jul
Return to your original page

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedExpert guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Flatiron Building
  • 15m
We begin the tour with a general overview of history and the city's move uptown. Pictures help recreate the evolution of the area from farmland to a fashionable city centre. We learn the history of the Astors, the creation of the first Waldorf=Astoria, and their social interactions with families like the Vanderbilts of the new Industrial class wealth.
Madison Square
  • 10m
Pictures enhance a short walk and talk around Madison Square, including the hisotries of Met Life and the first Madison Square Gardens at the height of the Gilded Age.
Broadway
  • 5m
We begin hte process of circumnavigating the ruins of the long forgotten city, when the telephone and electricity were brand new and not yet common to households. It was the age of the department store, hte apartment buildnig and the office towers, new ways of living, working and playing for a rising middle class. Each thoroughfare that crossed at Madison Square held a different class-based attraction of some form of commercia culture, including a redlight distrcit of blocks above 23rd Street and west of Broadway! Here, we begin the tour with the carriage trade shops of upper class wealth along Broadway, including th old Lord & Taylor and Arnold Constable & Co buildings, among others.
Fifth Avenue
  • 10m
Fifth Avenue below 23rd Street has its own particular hisotry of development like no other place in hte city. Here, the Garment Distrcit was "diverted" from Midtown. The built environment here is different from any other blocks around.
Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas)
  • 10m
Sixth Avenue was the middle class shopping district and retains its spactacular array of buildings as the city moved from cast iron to steel frame construction. Some of the buidlings include: Seigel-Cooper, B. Altmans, Hugh O'Neill's, and Adams Dry Goods Store.
Broadway
  • 20m
Above 23rd Street history takes an abrupt turn as a few steps take us into the old tenderloin, blocks of concert-saloons, brothels and gambling halls from a time when the main form of entertainment in the house was the piano.
Flatiron District
  • 20m
We cross back to Fifth Avenue and again into a realm of substantial architecture. Here, early experimental forays into multiple family housing: apartment-hotels, French flats, bachelor flats, early coops are the featured buildign types. Some of the buildings include: the Wilbraham, Holland House, Seville and the Martha Washington.
Madison Square Park
  • 15m
We end the tour in Madison Square Park with some last interesting histories, inluding the Worth Monument, Delmonico's and the old Brunswick Club.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESFlatiron Building
    • 175 5th Avenue
    • 10010, New York, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE175 5th Ave
    • 175 5th Avenue
    • 10010, New York, New York, United States

Best Deals on Things to Do

Experience the wonders of the world up close with great deals on things to do near and far. Expedia offers one-of-a-kind activities that allow you to explore New York your way. Whether you love nature, culture, food or a bit of adventure, we have the perfect activity for you.

Top experiences in New York

With so many things to do in New York, planning the perfect day out may seem like a daunting task. Expedia is here to take the hassle out of finding the best attractions, tours and activities in New York. Families, couples and business travellers can all find the perfect activity in New York to create life-long memories with the help of Expedia.