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Audio Walking Tour of the East Village and Hell’s Kitchen (Manhattan) – New York Times

walki-talki.com brings you the premiere mp3 audio walking tours of the top European destinations. We have designs on the top American destinations, too. Until the top American cities are given the walki-talki.com treatment, you can get two terrific tours of two of New York City’s influential neighborhoods from the New York Times. Follow the link above to find the tours.

The tour of the East Village (the part of Greewich Village that resides on the east side of Manhattan Island) takes you on a tour of the places that influenced modern art, including Claes Oldenburg’s studio and CBGB’s. Neither exists anymore, alas, but you can still make pilgrimage to many sites that had a huge impact on modern art and culture.

The Clinton neighborhood is the erstwhile neighborhood of poor, working-class Irish immigrants, whose misery and ambitions fueled racial strife and thuggery in the form of organized crime, thus earning neighborhood the title “Hell’s Kitchen”. Like the rest of Manhattan, it is now largely gentrified and occupied by decidedly civilized and affluent people of all races. Nevertheless, you can visit the places that inspired countless stories, as well as a few destinations that are still noteworthy.

Of course, neither tour nor the combination of both is enough to see New York City, and that is probably why the are free, but they should be enough to whet your appetite for the rest of the city and the walki-talki.com mp3 walking tour of New York City.

Stay tuned…