NYC: DUMBO & Brooklyn Bridge Walking Tour into Manhattan

Start at Pier 1 with views across the harbor, walk through DUMBO to the famous Washington Street shot, then cross the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan skyline ahead.
Most Brooklyn Bridge tours start in Manhattan and walk away from the skyline. This one starts in Brooklyn, so the towers of Lower Manhattan are in front of you all the way across.

You meet your guide at the entrance to Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, at the bottom of Old Fulton Street. From the granite steps at the water's edge you see the whole harbor: Lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge and, on a clear day, the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

A few steps away is Fulton Ferry Landing, where ferries crossed the East River for centuries before the bridge. Your guide tells how George Washington's army slipped across the river from this shore in 1776, and how the bridge's designer, John Roebling, was injured here in 1869, weeks before he died.

Next you pass Jane's Carousel, a 1922 carousel in a glass pavilion on the river, and walk to Pebble Beach under the Manhattan Bridge. Here you hear how coffee warehouses and cardboard box factories turned into DUMBO. On Washington Street you take the photo everyone comes for: the Empire State Building framed under the Manhattan Bridge. Your guide shows you where to stand and can take the picture on your phone.

Then you walk uphill to the stairs and step onto the bridge's wooden walkway. On the way across, your guide tells the rest of the Roebling story: the son who ran the construction from his sickbed and his wife Emily, who learned the engineering herself and became his link to the site for eleven years. You stop at the towers for photos and reach Manhattan at City Hall Park.

The tour ends next to the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and Chambers St subway stations, about 10 minutes on foot from the 9/11 Memorial and from Chinatown. If you want to see the Statue of Liberty from the water, your guide will show you how to get to the free Staten Island Ferry, three subway stops away.

To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.

This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.