Contact Us

There is no contact form and no ticket desk, because nothing is sold or booked here. All 45 walks are run by independent local guides on GuruWalk, plus one Financial District walk on freetour.com, and every reservation is made on the platform page for that walk. What this site has is one email address, and mail sent to it gets read. Corrections, additions and firm disagreements all belong there; the shortest useful message usually works best.

Messages are not all equal. A note about a wrong meeting point or a museum entry rule that has shifted does more good than a casual question, because it protects the next visitor's afternoon. That is the kind of mail this page was built for.

• Tours drift from their descriptions. A guide shifts a start point, trims a stop, or passes the route to a colleague, and the page can fall behind the reality on the street. Spot a mismatch on any of the 45 walks here? Name the tour and describe what changed. One thing never needs flagging: cost. Every walk on this site is pay what you want, so there is no fee to drift.
• A walk that has vanished or quietly reshaped itself. Some tours stop taking bookings, cut a stop such as the 9/11 Memorial from the route, or narrow the languages they run in. Name the walk and describe the change. If the report holds up against the walk's own GuruWalk page, the entry is fixed or removed without delay.
• Free-entry rules in New York move constantly. Museums tie free hours to residency or a weekday evening, and gardens shift with the seasons. If a page states a rule the attraction no longer follows, say which rule actually applies. Every entry rule here comes from the institution's own published terms, not from marketing copy.
• Know of a walk these pages skip? If a bookable GuruWalk free tour of New York exists and has no page here yet, send the link and it will get the same treatment as the rest of the roster. Placement cannot be bought at any price, and no operator can pay for a higher position. The single freetour.com walk, Julian's Financial District tour, earned its spot the same way: on its merits, not its money.
• Questions are welcome too, whether they belong in the FAQ or among the guides.

Email info@freethingstodoinnyc.org

Once You Send

Fixes come first. A wrong meeting point or a museum free night pinned to the wrong weekday can burn a visitor's only spare afternoon in the city, so anything that mends a fact on a walk page moves to the front of the pile. Wider questions sit behind those, and a few get folded into a fuller write-up rather than a short reply. No newsletter exists here, and no address leaves this site.

What Comes Next

No reservation is ever taken, held or changed through this site. All 45 walks belong to their own guides, and booking happens on GuruWalk, which handles the sign-up and whatever tip you decide on afterwards. The freetour.com Financial District walk follows the same pattern on its own platform. This site's role ends at pointing you toward walks that have been read and checked. So a rescheduled date, a cancellation, a query about your place or a payment problem must go to the guide through their own page, where your booking actually exists.

Holding a confirmed spot? Go to the GuruWalk confirmation email, not this site. That message carries your reference, the meeting point and a way to reach the guide directly. A late start, a group you cannot find, or a change of date can only be sorted by the person running the walk, since the reservation is theirs and this site plays no part in delivering it. Writing here about an active booking only adds a delay.

Two details in the GuruWalk confirmation deserve a careful read before anyone is contacted. The first is the meeting point: guides in this city assemble at exact places, a named corner, a statue, a terminal door, and walkers lose the group by skimming that line. The second is the cancellation policy, which differs from walk to walk, because even a pay-what-you-want place is a seat another visitor might want. For both, the guide's own page is the authority.

Before writing in, try the site itself. The tour categories arrange all 45 walks by neighbourhood, whether that means Lower Manhattan, Harlem or the outer boroughs, and the guides explain which museums let you in for free and on what terms. Most enquiries get solved faster that way than by waiting on a reply.