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The Great Gatsby Walking Tour
New York

Follow Nick Carraway through the speakeasies, grand hotels, and ash heaps of Jazz Age New York, the city that made Gatsby possible.

8 stops · All over New York City

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Every Stop Has a Story

Penn Station

The original Penn Station, modeled on the Roman Baths of Caracalla, was where Nick drifted at the end of his nights in town, and its demolition in 1963 led to New York's landmarks law.

Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central's starry ceiling has been painted backwards since 1913, high above the electric tracks that let a whole new Midtown rise on top of them.

The Yale Club

Nick, a Yale graduate of 1915, took his lonely dinners in this clubhouse, which opened that same year as the largest in the world.

The Mansfield

This 1902 hotel for bachelors became the last home of Max Gerlach, whose "old sport" note Fitzgerald kept in his scrapbook.

21 Club

Gatsby introduces Nick to Meyer Wolfshiem in a basement speakeasy, and Jack and Charlie's "21" became the most famous of them all, with a bar that could tip its bottles into the sewer.

The Plaza Hotel

Jordan tells the story of Daisy's first romance in the Plaza's tea garden, and on the hottest day of the summer the novel's great confrontation explodes in a suite upstairs.

Queensboro Bridge

Fitzgerald's most famous view of Manhattan comes from this 1909 bridge, with the sunlight flickering through its steel girders.

Valley of Ashes

The ash dump behind Fitzgerald's valley of ashes once rose 90 feet high here, before Robert Moses turned it into the grounds of the 1939 World's Fair.

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