Ground Zero Walking Tour: Exploring 9/11 Memorials
3.5
13 Ratings
New York
Join our expert tour guide for a unique 1-hour walking tour of the Ground Zero site, exploring monuments and memorials dedicated to the victims and survivors of 9/11. Visit St. Paul’s Chapel, the 9/11 memorial, and learn about the reconstruction of the World Trade Center.
Duration:
1 hour, 20 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Ground Zero Museum Workshop - Experience an emotional 1-hour walking tour of the NYC 9/11 Ground Zero site. Pay tribute to the fallen heroes and gather near the different monuments. Your tour guide will help you to really understand what happened on that memorial day of the 9/11.
- Brookfield Place - Brookfield Place is NYC’s best destination for shopping, dining, cultural events and art exhibits in downtown Manhattan. The guide will just show you the place from outside but you won’t go shopping. You can always come back at a latter time to shop by yourself.
- The Oculus - The Oculus in NYC is an artistic landmark located within walking distance of the World Trade Center. The guide will show it to you but you won’t enter inside. You can always come back and visit it by yourself another time.
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St. Paul’s Chapel - After the attacks of September 11, 2001, St. Paulâs Chapel, which sits directly across the street from the World Trade Center site, suffered no physical damage.
As recovery work started at the World Trade Center site, hundreds of rescue workers came to Lower Manhattan to search for survivors and begin sorting through the ruins. Slowly at first, rescue workers, police, and firefighters stopped by the chapel to rest and wash up.
What's Included
- 1-hour Ground Zero Walking Tour
- Guided by Passionate Expert
What's Not Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Tips
Additional Information
Join an experienced tour guide for an exclusive exploration of the Ground Zero site, where you’ll embark on a 60-minute walk around the World Trade Center’s monuments and memorials in honor of the victims and survivors of the devastating events of 9/11. Pay a visit to St. Paul’s Chapel and gain insights into its significant function post-attacks. Assemble at the 9/11 memorial, located right before the memorial pools, and have your guide explain in detail the meaning behind every monument, from the pools’ structure to the architecture of the newly built World Trade Center and its symbolic integration of materials, light, and reflections. Pay your respects at the Firefighter’s Memorial and the Eleven Tears Memorial, sites that are frequently overlooked by those touring without a guide. Witness the site’s rebuild during your visit to Brookfield Place and the Oculus, the transport hub of the new World Trade Center.
Location
209 Broadway
Broadway
209 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, USA
Meet your Tour Guide in front of the St Paul's Chapel, he will have a badge and a flag with the name of the local agency
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.5
(13 Ratings)
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Pjhpearce
Jun 21, 2023
A must! - Fantastic tour. Very informative and brilliant guide. A must if you are in NYC. Adam our guide was a fountain of knowledge and his personal contact with 9/11 was special.
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Smarttopper
Dec 1, 2022
Excellent - Great tour guide who combined facts with his own experiences of that fateful day... Warm friendly guy who took his time, answered questions despite the weather.
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Kristina_c
Aug 1, 2022
So knowledgeable!!! - Our guide was so knowledgeable and happy. It was a great experience! Highly recommend if you want to get the history and background of New York.
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Alberto
Jul 25, 2022
You should go in this Tour! - I did two tours with NYC tour and I highly recommend them. The guides are very knowledgable and fun. They are punctual and explain everything we visit. I had a lot of fun and I have no words to say thank you to the whole team because I had a fantastic experience.
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Linda_e
May 8, 2022
Not as I expected - Description was misleading. Might have been my fault. I wanted to go into the 9/11 museum. Not walk outside of it
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Stephanie_l
Oct 31, 2022
Depends on the guide - I have done two walking tours in New York and have to say they depend on the guide as to how good they are. Anyone can learn the facts but how they are conveyed can bring a tour to life or kill it. Sergei was very knowledgable but his accent was very heavy and hard for me as a native English speaker to understand. The tour was also 1 hour 5, minutes not 1.5 hours as advertised.
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Adam_r
Oct 26, 2022
Disappointing - Tour guide had no documentation to prove he was a tour guide
Continually checked his watch to ensure he didnt go over the hour guide.
Tour guide appeared to be new to the occupation
When asked about the museum being closed on a Tuesday he didnt know and had to google it!!
Shame because Ground Zero itself is a must visit but save the money and make sure you visit on a day the museum is open
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Colin_r
Jun 1, 2023
Disappointing - The tour guide never showed up, so we rang up and they said it wasn’t on the system? So just had to walk around out selves
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Peg_s
Jan 19, 2023
Poor tour - The tour guide shared nothing about 9-11. He had no info to share abt the happening gs of that day, who responded, what was inaccessible! I had been on a tour last July with a different group and learned so much! Our guide this time knew nothing of what I shared with him! Very disappointing!
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Debbie_b
May 14, 2022
Tour guide Didn’t turn up - The tour guide didn’t turn up. We arrived 30min before tour at designated area. Waited 30min after tour time. Even rang viator customer service
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