# Explore the Ruins of a Forgotten City in the Middle of Manhattan

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This 2-3 hour guided walking tour around Madison Square Park seeks out what's left to be found of the Gilded Age city. On this tour we read the architecture and decode the street walls in a neighborhood that was once the New York's city center at the height of the Gilded Age. Where the city came from (Soho), and where it moved to (Times Square, Museum Mile, and the shops of Fifth Avenue) is integral to understanding how New York, and Madison Square, developed. You’ll learn answers to questions you didn’t know you had about New York City, and leave with the deeply satisfying sense of understanding a city that author James Baldwin called 'spitefully incoherent'.

## Summary

Explore the Ruins of a Forgotten City in the Middle of Manhattan is a 2-hour sightseeing tour in New York. £45.36 — 40% below the New York median tour price of £76.12, across 542 priced tours. It holds a 5.0 out of 5 rating from 39 reviews. Listed under Outdoor Activities, Tours & Sightseeing, Food & Drink, Arts & Culture. The median tour price in New York is £76.12, measured across 542 priced tours.

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