World Trade Center Walking Tour

Experience the heroism and reconstruction of Ground Zero on this engaging walking tour. Learn about the survivors of Stairwell ‘B’ and the 911 surfer, and discover the design and construction of the new World Trade Center.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • The Oculus - The experience starts at the Starbucks across the street from the Oculus, the most expensive subway hub in the world.
    The tour also introduces FDNY Captain John Jonas and his team “the Dragon Fighters.”
  • World Trade Center - There we’ll continued to an overlook of the World Trade Center Memorial Plaza. From this vantage, one…
What's Included
  • Preferred Access to One World Observatory (Upgrades available)
  • 2-Hour Narrated Walking Tour with Extra Large Visuals
  • Inclusive of all fees and taxes
  • Preferred Access to 911 Memorial Museum (Upgrades available)
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities are welcomed and appreciated
Additional Information

Unbeatable value for a two-hour exploration. All our guides utilise big 11’ x 17’ visuals to enrich your journey. This expedition delves into the bravery of New York City’s fire department and the escapees of Stairwell ‘B.’ Follow in their footsteps and uncover how 16 individuals survived the north tower’s collapse. Unearth the remarkable story of the…

Location
20 Dey St
Dey Street
This tour meets at the 9/11 Memorial's Starbucks Café located on 20 Dey Street between Broadway and Church Street. Please arrive 15 minutes before your tour to check-in with your host at the Starbucks.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Dianna_n
Dec 12, 2024
Great recommend for 9/11 tour - Excellent. Very informative. Wonderful guide and information shared. Just what we hoped it would be.
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Jessie_u
Dec 11, 2024
Excellent Ground Zero/911 tour! - Our guide, Christopher, was absolutely wonderful! He made the tour so interesting and educational. We took our kids and they were fully engaged the whole time. Would absolutely recommend this tour to everyone! You will not be disappointed.
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Cindy
Dec 7, 2024
Walking the footprint of 9/11 - Our tour guide was Tim D (Turbo) and he was knowledgeable, and had a wealth of personal experience connected with 9/11. The tour is interesting and sobering…puts “faces”on the victims in a new way.
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Acrowell
Oct 29, 2024
A worthwhile tour/musuem. - Although we put in a request for an American Sign Language Interpreter, our guide, Andrew Farnswoth was awesome. At first, he said he'll guide us just to the musuem but then know we, 4 are deaf, and wasn't fully aware of our request for an interpreter beforehand, he decided to give us a tour, using photos he had in his briefcases and is a skilled photographer. He would point out certain angles and we felt inspired about some of the areas he pointed us before heading to the musuem. It was very touching. The museum, to our surprise, offered iPhone with sign language which was accessible.
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Saschabc9742kn
Oct 27, 2024
Impressive recommendation - What a fantastic and impressive tour, we have heard so many impressive back stories, we were given extensive time to ask all our questions. An absolute must for everyone, I would not have missed this one.
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Sarah_p
Oct 24, 2024
This was an amazing,... - This was an amazing, moving tour. In addition to admission to the 9/11 Museum and new World One top floor observatory, you walk through various important sites/viewpoints of this significant event in our history. I remember the 9/11 attacks but the walking tour provided so much more impactful history about the events of that day and how deeply it affected those experiencing them directly. If you're visiting NYC, this is a must-do tour.
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Kamila_r
Oct 21, 2024
Excellent - Excellent tour! Christopher was very charismatic and engaging. Superb mastery of the topic while making the conversation interactive. It was very eye opening to hear how things unfolded in the early stage of the 9/11 attacks. It really speaks volumes of this city’s resilience.
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William_c
Oct 6, 2024
A must do in NYC - Guide was very knowledgeable and made the tour very interesting. The museum is well worth a visit and quite emotional, definitely use the headphones. Would definitely recommend.
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Dan_c
Sep 28, 2024
911 Memorial Tour - The tour guide went the extra mile to help us use elevators when available and took perfect pictures of us. Very informative and the pictures were amazing. I would recommend this tour to anyone.
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Traveler63135258351
Sep 22, 2024
Food For the Soul - All Americans across the country, in some way had a deep, personal experience of shock on 9/11/2001 as we all heard about, watched live on TV, witnessed from some place in NYC, or even watched in horror from across the Hudson River in NJ. Some of us lost family---wives, unborn children, husbands, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, cousins, grandfathers, grandmothers---who were killed in the attack of hijacked jet liners that were used as bombs to strike those two iconic buildings, the World Trade Center. Others lost friends, lovers, fiances, fiancees, or previous spouses. It serves us all well to take any oppotunity presented to us to visit and honor the sacred ground where so many of our loved and beloved are burried. The Memorial Museum holds a magnificently crafted space to see an almost endless number of presentations, all breathtaking in their simplicity, and so poignant in the shock they elicit. Seeing actual parts of the foundations, staircases, firefighters and first responders gear, as well as some personal items from the people who just came to work on that day, is so wrenching in their being familiar, common, everyday items. To visit and tour the Museum is to become a part of a stunning, shocking, faintly peaceful, always touched with grief in the air, and silence in our hearts, experience. It is an experience unlike any I have ever had in my life and it is one I cherish dearly always touched with a deep sadness in my heart. Walking the campus around the heart-stopping void where once stood such magnificent buildings, punctuated by the brilliant Reflecting Pools with the names of those who died inscribed on a magnificent bronze border to the pools, is touched with both sadness and hope as children, and other groups play, entertain with music or song. The "Survivor Tree" is a spectacular source of wonder as it stands staunchly and proudly radiating life and hope, and change. Everyone is enriched and made oddly whole when you make sure you learn the simple and yet complex story behind and within the "Survivor Tree."
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