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NYC Movie History Walking Tour with Smart Glasses

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2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
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Offered in: English
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Overview

You know these scenes. You've just never stood inside them.

Iron Man flies into his tower behind Grand Central, and Cary Grant slips through the same concourse in North by Northwest. The Chrysler Building appears in Men in Black 3. The city freezes around the Public Library in The Day After Tomorrow, and The Devil Wears Prada plays out in the park behind it. In Home Alone 2, Kevin finds his mother in the Rockefeller plaza. The Beatles walk onto The Ed Sullivan Show. Taxi Driver shows you the Broadway that no longer exists — and King Kong is still hanging over the skyline.

I'm Eloi Gerard. I guided in Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles for years, and before that I worked as a filmmaker. I built the smart-glass platform this tour runs on, because a photo of a filming location never convinced anybody — you have to see the film where it happened. That idea is the whole tour.

What's Included

  • Smart glasses, supplied for the walk on the Smart Glasses option
  • 30 film and TV excerpts from the tour library, played at the places where they were shot
  • Booking fees and all taxes included · free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure
  • Gratuities
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19 Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10112, USA

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89 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017, USA

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Rockefeller Center

Kevin McCallister's New York starts here. Home Alone 2 (1992): he crosses the Queensboro Bridge, photographs the Radio City façade and finds his mother under the Rockefeller tree — your glasses lay those frames over the real plaza. Stand at the 30 Rock forecourt, broadcast headquarters since 1933, then pass Radio City Music Hall, the 6,000-seat home of the Rockettes since 1932.
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15 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Ed Sullivan Theater

Three nights on one marquee. 9 February 1964: 73 million Americans watched the Beatles here — crime stopped, water use dropped, the country sat still for 2:16. Your glasses cut back to Elvis in 1956, filmed from the waist up, then forward to 2009, when Paul McCartney played the same awning for the Late Show. The 1927 theatre has been Letterman's since 1993 and is Colbert's today: one building, three eras of television.
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15 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Times Square

Six films, one intersection. Vanilla Sky (2001) emptied the square for real: a crew closed it for three hours, no CGI — your glasses replay the silence. Taxi Driver (1976) runs the other way, Travis's cab down Broadway past neon that no longer exists. Midnight Cowboy (1969) supplies the most quoted line in New York cinema, born when a real taxi nearly hit Dustin Hoffman. Then The French Connection, Deep Impact, and Captain America waking up 70 years late, exactly where you stand.
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15 minutes Admission Ticket Free

New York Public Library

The steps that end the world, twice. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) floods Fifth Avenue and drowns the Rose Main Reading Room; Ghostbusters (1984) opened its franchise with a ghost in the stacks. Between them and Carrie Bradshaw's wedding steps in Sex and the City (2008). Look up at Patience and Fortitude, the 1911 lions, then at the 90-metre reading room behind them.
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15 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Bryant Park

New York's living room. From the park's 42nd Street edge, look west: the McGraw-Hill Building (1931), Raymond Hood's blue-green slab, is the tower that frames The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Behind you, the library terrace; around you, the lawn that hosts Fashion Week twice a year and turns into a free ice rink in winter.
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Chrysler Building

The most destroyed tower in New York. Chrysler's 1930 crown, the tallest structure in the world for eleven months, has been sliced by an asteroid in Armageddon (1998), used as a nest by a winged serpent in Q (1982), and rebuilt as 1969 Midtown in Men in Black 3 (2012), where Agent J jumps between towers that no longer exist. Your glasses take the spire down; then you look up at the real stainless-steel gargoyles, still standing.
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Grand Central Terminal

Three films fight over one concourse. The Avengers (2012) put Stark Tower on the MetLife site and staged the Battle of New York at 42nd and Park. I Am Legend (2007) emptied the hall and let the weeds in. North by Northwest (1959) made it a place to disappear — and your glasses add the crop-duster scene Hitchcock shot a continent away. Carlito's Way (1993) ends on this balcony and this escalator; Superman (1978) used the 1913 hall as Metropolis.
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Additional Info

  • Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers

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Q: What is the cancellation policy for the NYC Movie History Walking Tour with Smart Glasses?

A: You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund. 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 (EST). Read more Apr 2025

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund.

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What's Included

Activity name

  • Smart glasses, supplied for the walk on the Smart Glasses option
  • 30 film and TV excerpts from the tour library, played at the places where they were shot
  • Booking fees and all taxes included · free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure
  • English Speaking Local Guide
  • Gratuities

Additional Info

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  • Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers

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