If you look up New York City, you'll find about 180 entries, including walking tours, subway maps and an app that finds the nearest cross streets to an address -- useful for telling cab drivers.
The president of New York City Transit toured subway tunnels yesterday near the worst devastation from the World Trade Center collapse, and reported that the N and R lines, thought to be extensively damaged, had not been pierced by falling steel beams, as earlier thought.
The writer took the 90-minute Tour 3 (€10), Subways and Bunkers in the Cold War, and the two-hour Tour M (€13), Under the Berlin Wall.
A walking and subway tour of neighborhoods along the Brighton line, including Flatbush and Brighton Beach.
"CHRISTMAS DAY HISTORICAL SUBWAY TOUR: OLD BROOKLYN ELEVATED" visits sites along the subway lines of the old Brooklyn El.
One spring night in 1965, Mayor Robert F. Wagner took riders by surprise when he made an unannounced tour of the subway system between midnight and 2 in the morning.
The museum also offers walking tours of the Brooklyn Waterfront Railway, an "Architecture in Transit" tour of historic subway stations, and all-day excursions on the L.I.R.R. and Metro-North lines.
Tomorrow at 10 a.m., "Intermodal Excursion: Staten Island," begins with a ride on the Staten Island Ferry and includes a stop at a maintenance facility; fee: $25; members, $20. Sunday at noon, "Up and Down the IRT," a tour of the subway lines from the Bronx to Bowling Green; fee: $20; members, $15.
Last month, members of extreme right-wing group Génération Identitaire (GI) launched an "anti-scum security tour" in the subway system of the northern French town of Lille.
"Forget the skyscrapers and plan ahead... Book a ride on the City Hall Station subway tour and pop the question in this abandoned subway station surrounded by walls of classic tiles and vaulted ceilings," Pease says.
