New York Lower Manhattan, click on the time and jump to any segment
00:22 SoHo
03:20 Greenwich Village
10:36 Chelsea
16:14 High Line
21:04 Chinatown
28:45 Lower East Side
38:46 East Village
39:19 Midtown South, 14th to 34th Streets
58:43 Financial District
1:00:36 World Trade
Two of New York's best neighborhoods for walking are Soho and Greenwich Village, and we're going to take you on a stroll through the area, starting out with several minutes wandering through Soho, which is the neighborhood south of Houston Street, and it had been a rundown industrial neighborhood with factories, warehouses and truck-loading ramps, but in the last 40 years, it became New York's supreme cutting-edge, artistic neighborhood.
We'll go through Washington Square Park, down McDougall, over to Bleecker Street and into the West Village especially walking along Bleecker Street. You can walk almost anywhere, any which way you want in the Village and have a great time, but we're going to show you a suggested route that hits a lot of the highlights.
We’re going to take a walk in Chelsea, one of the nicest neighborhoods of Manhattan. It's primarily residential place for local people rather than for tourists, which makes it all that much more attractive for the inquisitive visitor to go explore -- you'll find a mix of quiet side streets and busy retail avenues. Chelsea's located between 14th St. and 34th St., between the Hudson River and about 6th Avenue, just about 1 mile south of Times Square, which puts it pretty close to Midtown and yet it is a world apart.
The High Line has become one of the most popular attractions in New York City -- it's amazing. Originally it was planned as a neighborhood park because Chelsea doesn't have much in the way of parks, and now it attracts visitors from all over the world. And New Yorkers love it as well. We will take you on a walk from start at the Whitney to finish at Hudson Yards.
We’re taking you to Manhattan's Chinatown, which is the most famous and while it’s not the biggest, it’s home to the highest concentrated, industry population density of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Tourism, manufacturing, and retail are the major industries along with 300 Chinese restaurants, some Asian antique shops, and countless souvenir stores sprawling over many blocks.
We're going to take you on a walking tour through New York's Lower East side and the East Village, a part of the city that most visitors don't get to, and yet you'll find it's one of the most interesting places, heading for Astor Place down Lafayette Street, below Houston down to Hester, touching on Chinatown, then up to the East Village.
Heading south into what's called NoHo. We will be meandering along Lafayette and the Bowery and some of the side streets in between as we make our way down to Houston.
There's not much left of Little Italy anymore, only two blocks along Mulberry Street, most famous for Ferrara that great bakery with their cannolis. This neighborhood used to be filled with thousands of Italian immigrants a hundred years ago.
We'll take a walk along Hester Street for a few blocks then north on Ludlow and along Orchard Street. These blocks have an authentic urban charm with a lot of character. You don't see many chain stores here, they're individual, idiosyncratic, they've got grocery delivery on electric mopeds, for example. There's a real feeling of neighborhood here. An artistic edge with a Bohemian atmosphere. Back in the mid-twentieth century it was a popular and cheap place for beatnik poets and radical artists, along with ordinary poor people.
We've traveled north of Houston Street, arriving in the East Village, walking north a few blocks along First Avenue and then meandering down 7th Street and St. Mark's Place, ending up at Tompkins Square Park. We're also near the edge of Alphabet City which has a lot of middle-class housing developments.
There is another big fascinating chunk of Manhattan that a lot of visitors don't see between 34th Street and 14th Street, in many ways the authentic, commercial heart of the city. Just a mile from bottom to top, but we’ll take a winding route three times longer.
We’ll start at Union Square and walk you north to 34th Street, giving you a taste of the real life of New York City - coffee shops to relax, some famous landmarks, busy shopping streets, Koreatown, Asian imports.
We’re going to take a walk through the Financial District, at the southern tip of Manhattan visiting the new World Trade Center and going up the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and into the Memorial Museum.
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