Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST (CC BY 3.0)
A self-guided audio walk through Greenwich Village, from the factory fire that changed New York's labour laws to the Stonewall Inn. It starts at the building where the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 146 people in March 1911, then Stanford White's marble arch, where John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp declared the Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square in 1917, the Row of the 1830s, the carriage-house studios where Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened the first Whitney Museum in 1931, the fountain of the 1961 folk singers' protest, and Judson Memorial Church with its La Farge windows. Then the folk clubs of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets, the Bitter End and Café Wha?, where Bob Dylan played in 1961; the Provincetown Playhouse, where Eugene O'Neill got his start; the nine-and-a-half-foot-wide house where Edna St. Vincent Millay lived; and Chumley's, the speakeasy behind an unmarked door. The walk ends at the Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park, Jefferson Market Library, Patchin Place, the Village Vanguard and the White Horse Tavern, a few doors from Jane Jacobs's house on Hudson Street.
15 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 149 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 34 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Washington Square Arch and the Row, The First Whitney Museum and MacDougal Alley, Washington Square Fountain, Judson Memorial Church.
Bleecker Street and the Bitter End, MacDougal Street and Café Wha?, Provincetown Playhouse, 75½ Bedford Street and the Cherry Lane Theatre, Chumley's.
The Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park, Jefferson Market Library, Patchin Place, Village Vanguard, The White Horse Tavern and Hudson Street.
The corner where 146 people died in the fire of 25 March 1911, which led New York to pass dozens of laws on factory safety.
Stanford White's marble arch of 1890 to 1892, on whose roof artists declared the Village a free republic in 1917.
The basement club in a former stable where Bob Dylan played in 1961 and the young Jimi Hendrix was heard in 1966.
Where the Provincetown Players gave Eugene O'Neill his start, opening The Emperor Jones here in 1920.
Where patrons fought back against a police raid on 28 June 1969; since 2016 the Stonewall National Monument.
The wedge-shaped basement club Max Gordon opened in 1935, where Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Bill Evans recorded live.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 15 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Greenwich Village — Writers, Folk Singers and Stonewall, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including Washington Square Arch and the Row, Washington Square Fountain, Bleecker Street and the Bitter End, MacDougal Street and Café Wha? and The Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park. That is about 18 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~2½ hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.