Guided tours

Midtown Manhattan&#39;s skyline looks like a free-for-all, but almost every famous shape in it answers a rule: setbacks written in 1916, a glass slab that used a loophole, a granite plaza the city liked so much it wrote it into law, and towers built on height bought from the neighbours.

Start a block from the Empire State Building, where the steps and the airship mast come into view. Visit the marble Morgan Library and the Public Library&#39;s lions, then follow the buried railroad from Grand Central up Park Avenue.

See the Chrysler Building&#39;s secret spire, Lever House and the Seagram Building facing each other, St Patrick&#39;s Cathedral, Rockefeller Center and Radio City, and finish among the pencil-thin towers of 57th Street, a few minutes from Central Park.

Twelve stops, about 3.8 km and 2 hours, in English and at your own pace. Observation decks and museum entry are not included.

Midtown Manhattan Self-Guided Audio Walk: Empire State, Grand Central, Chrysler and Rockefeller Center

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