Reservations: Required.
Cost: This tour is free to take, and you get to decide what, if anything, the tour was worth when it's done. A name-your-own-price tour is a tour for anyone's budget.
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best-kept secret with some of the city's most interesting architecture, food, music, and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
Join Free Tours by Foot uptown on this two hour Harlem tour and discover the streets where Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and other cutting-edge Harlem Renaissance players put American music on the world map, where Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and where Fidel Castro slept after being kicked out of a midtown hotel for having chickens in his room.
Come hungry, if you want to treat yourself to some
Sites we cover on our Harlem Tour:
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Sites related to Malcolm X
Harlem YMCA
Hotel Theresa
Red Rooster
Schomberg Center
Strivers Row
and much more!
NOTE: We do not enter these locations during the tour. The tour will NOT bring you inside a church service to
Where: Tour starts from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (
When: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Sundays and @9:45am Saturdays & Sundays (mid-March through December), @4pm Wednesdays (mid-May-Nov). @2pm Sundays & Fridays (Jan-Feb). Dress appropriate for the weather.
Duration: Approximately 2 hours. Tour distance is approximately 1.5 miles (2.5 km)
Cost: This tour is free to take, and you get to decide what, if anything, the tour was worth when it's done. A name-your-own-price tour is a tour for anyone's budget.