Alexander Hamilton, New York: Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour
Overview
Skip the ticket line, the live guide, and the fixed schedule. This self-guided walking tour, with VoiceMap, puts Alexander Hamilton's real New York in your headphones — the streets, taverns, and institutions where the Founding Fathers built a nation, decades before anyone set it to music. Walk the real ground: Bowling Green, Federal Hall, Fraunces Tavern, the Federal Reserve, and Trinity Church, where Hamilton worked, banked, dueled his way into legend, and is buried. A historian-narrated audio guide tells the true story of his rise from immigrant clerk to Treasury Secretary, his rivalry with Aaron Burr, and the birth of American finance — no reservation, no live guide, no fixed start time. Open the free VoiceMap app, start whenever you like, and let GPS-triggered narration guide you at your own pace, with offline playback and lifetime access included. At $19.99, it's a fraction of the cost of a guided Hamilton tour.
What's Included
- Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start
- Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
- VoiceMap app for Android and iOS
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
- An historical experience
- Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
- Smartphone and headphone
- Transportation
- Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Meeting Location
Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004, USA
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
89 Broadway
New York, NY 10006, USA
This self-guided audio tour ends in front of Trinity Church.
What To Expect
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Bowling Green (pass by)
The Battery (pass by)
Castle Clinton National Monument (pass by)
Fraunces Tavern Museum (pass by)
Federal Hall (pass by)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (pass by)
BNY (pass by)
Charging Bull (Wall Street Bull) (pass by)
St. Paul's Chapel (pass by)
Trinity Church Wall Street (pass by)
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- "The total tour time includes walking the route and passing by the attractions"
Frequently Asked Questions (6)
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Activity code: C-110804P173
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Frequently Asked Questions (6)
The answers provided below were previously given in response to questions from Cool New York City customers.
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- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (EDT).
- Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start.
- Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it.
- VoiceMap app for Android and iOS.
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata.
- An historical experience.
- Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour.
- Smartphone and headphone.
- Transportation.
- Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route.
The minimum age to participate is 6. This tour requires at least one adult to accompany children..
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Apr 2025Accessibility information for the Alexander Hamilton, New York: Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour is as follows:
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Alexander Hamilton, New York: Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour will be included in your confirmation email from Cool New York City. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!
Mar 2024What's Included
- Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start
- Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
- VoiceMap app for Android and iOS
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
- An historical experience
- Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
- Smartphone and headphone
- Transportation
- Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- "The total tour time includes walking the route and passing by the attractions"
