Description
The New York Manhattan Upper East Side Tourist Scavenger Hunt is a 3.9 km / 2.4 mi self-guided walking tour with challenges along the way. It should take 3 hours to complete, and ends near the start location.
What you’ll see
- Central Park
- Bow Bridge
- Bethesda Terrace & Fountain
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Conservatory Water
- Hans Christian Andersen Memorial
- Belvedere Castle
- Payne Whitney House
- Harry Sinclair House
- James B Duke House
- Turtle Pond
- Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
- Carnegie Mansion
- Cleopatra’s Needle
- East Pinetum
- Neue Galerie New York
- South Gate House
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir
- And many monuments!
After purchase, to begin your Upper East Side scavenger hunt, direct yourself to the outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10028. This is the start location.
Once there, stand outside and log in to this website and begin your hunt.
Alternatively, you can access “My Account” and follow the instructions there.
Never hesitate to contact us if you experience any difficulties.
Initially, this tour was made available as a Beta version, for free, in July 2022.
It was fully tested in May 2023 and finally updated and launched in July 2023.
This scavenger hunt has a difficulty level of NORMAL.
Your group’s size should be between 2 and 6 persons. In fact, children are welcome and will enjoy most of the challenges.
History
The natives that inhabited what is now the big city of New York were the Lenape, who spoke Algonquin. They occupied the Upper East Side with fishing camps in the East River.
These beautiful arable lands were used to grow various crops by early settlers from the late 17th century to the early 19th century. It was then that railways multiplied in Manhattan.
At the end of the 19th century, the city subdivided most of the farms into urbanization lots. The development of residential neighborhoods began. Around that time, between the 1850s and 1870s, Central Park began to take shape. Two elevated “El” subway lines were built during this time, taking commuters from north to south and vice versa.
Already, the rich and famous were building large homes along the new Central Park. Several large and wealthy American families have settled on the Upper East Side at various times: Vanderbilt (railroad and coal), Carnegie (industries), Frick (coal), Kennedy (political), Roosevelt (political), Rockefeller (oil), Whitney (horse racing), and Duke (tobacco and electricity).
Gracie Mansion, the last mansion on the East River, became the official home of the mayor of New York City in 1943.
Today, there are many museums and art galleries, as well as over 20 consulates in the south, as the UN headquarters is located further south in Midtown.
The Upper East Side is a particularly wealthy residential and cultural neighborhood on the island of Manhattan. It is located east of Central Park and has a population of nearly 230,000.
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