New York City

Experience the Arts & Architecture

tour summary

Be the teacher that opens your students’ eyes to world of art and design, and bring to life the cultural and historical markers that have made an impact on artists, both in the past and today. There’s no better setting for this art lesson than New York City, where a variety of cultures blend together in a true global melting pot.

sample tour itinerary

Little Italy & Chinatown

Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark skyscraper and American cultural icon in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street.

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Upper Manhattan Tour
Central Park

Central Park is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.

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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre (6.6 ha) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side.

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Harlem Drive-thru
Cathedral of St. John the Divine

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially The Met) is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among nineteen curatorial departments.

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The Cloisters and/or

The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, used to exhibit the museum's extensive collection of art, architecture and artifacts from Medieval Europe.  

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Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as "The Guggenheim") is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Broadway Show

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City.

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Times Square (Group Photo)

Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

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Midtown Manhattan Tour

Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square.

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Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres (89,000 m2) between 48th and 51st streets in New York City, United States.

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St. Patrick's Cathedral

The Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral, or Old St. Patrick's, is located at 260-264 Mulberry Street between Prince and Houston Streets in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, with the primary entrance currently located on Mott Street.

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Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in Rockefeller Center in New York City.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum that has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world.

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FIFTH Avenue Walk
NBA Store

The NBA Store is a series of officially licensed retailers which sell merchandise for the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Saks Fifth Ave.

Saks Fifth Avenue is a luxury American specialty store owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated.

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Trump Tower

Trump Tower is a 58-story mixed-use skyscraper located at 725 Fifth Avenue, at the corner of East 56th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Nike Town
Abercrombie & Fitch

Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) (NYSE: ANF) is an American retailer that focuses on casual wear for consumers aged 18 to 22.

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Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany's flagship store, since 1940, is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City.

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FAO Schwartz

The FAO Schwarz flagship store, located in the General Motors Building at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan, is currently the brand’s only brick-and-mortar store location and a famous destination in the city.

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Lower Manhattan Tour

Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York.

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Subway ride to Battery Park

Battery Park is a 25-acre (10 hectare) public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor.

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Ferry ride to: The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.

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Ellis Island

Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor and was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.

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St. Paul’s Chapel

St. Paul's Chapel, is an Episcopal chapel located at 209 Broadway, between Fulton and Vesey Streets, in lower Manhattan in New York City.

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9/11 Memorial

The 9/11 Memorial is the principal memorial commemorating the September 11 attacks of 2001.  The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, on the former location of the Twin Towers, which were destroyed during the attacks. 

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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution, is the United States' national museum of design history and contemporary design and the only museum in the U.S. whose collection is solely focused on contemporary and historic design.

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Broadway Show

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City.

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Historic Walking Tour
Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, often referred to in New York as simply "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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SoHo area

SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores.

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