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Self-guided audio walking tours of NYC. At TellBetter Tours, we tell better stories. On VoiceMap app.

02/11/2025

Thanks, VoiceMap!

02/04/2025

NEW AUDIO WALKING TOUR: Brooklyn Heights. America's First Suburb. NYC's first historic district. Home to abolitionists and suffragists. Pulitzer-winning poets and playwrights. Where minister Henry Ward Beecher held a live slave auction in Plymouth Church, then set the young woman free. Hear fascinating stories and gripping scandals come to life with actors, sound effects and music. On the VoiceMap app. Link in comments.

01/03/2025

If you liked the new Dylan movie, you'll love our audio walking tour of Greenwich Village called "Pride and Folk." You'll walk the street where the album cover was shot on a winter day, see the apartment building where Dylan lived with Suze Rotolo, as well as those of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Dave Van Ronk. Plus MacDougal Street, home to the Gaslight, Cafe Wha?, Cafe Reggio and the Kettle of Fish, where they sang and drank. And to reward you for bundling up and getting out there, the tour is just $8.99 in January. On the VoiceMap app.

12/14/2024

Even on a chilly December day, someone took our SoHo tour and left the nicest comment: "I come and stay in SoHo every other year for work. I am familiar with the shops, but was looking to get to know the area better. I'm also am amateur photographer with an interest in street and architecture photography, and a history geek. I downloaded this audio tour, popped in some earbuds, and had the absolute best time. The tour moves at a comfortable pace. The guide is very engaging, and the sound effects enhance the experience. You will not be bored. I was shocked to discover things I had walked by, or walked over, tons of times with fascinating stories I would have never discovered or realized otherwise. Highly recommend this tour to anyone who comes to visit SoHo!" On the VoiceMap app.

11/02/2024

Thanks, VoiceMap for promoting our tour of Central Park, filled with great stories and hidden secrets.

10/14/2024

After another summer of record-doubling sales, we've just launched a new NYC audio walking tour: "Slumming It in Five Points, Chinatown and the Bowery." During the Gilded Age, wealthy swells would leave their Fifth Avenue mansions and "go slumming" in downtown saloons, dance halls, brothels and o***m dens, complete with guide and police es**rt. We walk in their footsteps, finding the spots where tattooing, tap dancing, blackface minstrel acts and the term "Jim Crow" originated. Where PT Barnum and Irving Berlin got their start. Home of the Tong Wars (bloody), the Doctor's Riot (macabre), the Straw Hat Riots (ridiculous), and the Dead Rabbits Riot (depicted in Scorcese's Gangs of New York). It might not be NYC's most scenic neighborhood, but it's definitely our most colorful tour. On the VoiceMap app

06/18/2024

Apparently, our new audio walking tour of Grand Central is a moving experience. Plus it's air conditioned! On the VoiceMap app.

04/30/2024

Our new Grand Central Terminal audio tour is live! Millions visit, gawk, and leave. But the stories behind Grand Central are as awe-inspiring as the space itself. Birthplace of "air-rights," "red carpet treatment" and the word "commuter." Key location for countless movies. Saved from destruction by a US Supreme Court decision that in turn protected thousands of landmarks across America. Scene of hippie riots, celebrity ransom payments and terrorist bombs. Born from a horrifying tragedy, the station's many innovations profoundly reshaped not just mid-town Manhattan, but cities across the world. Find our amazing new tour on the VoiceMap app.

04/12/2024

Our new Gilded Age tour is getting good reviews. Look for TellBetter tours of NYC on the VoiceMap app. (You will never look at a pepper mill again without laughing.)

03/29/2024

Outrageous fortune led to outrageous behavior, and we spent months finding the juciest stories, all brought vividly to life with rich sound design. Enjoy an immersive 90-minute stroll up Millionaires Row along Central Park, admiring the most interesting mansions and meeting the colorful characters who built them. Here's a 3-minute sample, from the Duncan-Mackay Mansion at 3 East 75th. Find TellBetter tours on the VoiceMap Map app.

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