Ultimate Insiders Brooklyn Bridge Walking Tour

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2 hours 30 minutes
Free cancellation
1 - 15
Mobile ticket

Overview

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the Brooklyn Bridge by learning from the great-great-grandson of the original creators. Join Metro Tours' Kriss Roebling for one of the most unique walking tours in the world! You will be able to see and touch original pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge and learn family stories of how the Brooklyn Bridge came to be one of the most famous bridges in the world. Kriss will also bring family heirlooms on tour, showing notebooks and photos of his unique connection to the world-famous bridge. There is no other tour in New York City that will allow you to get this up-close-and-personal with Kriss and his family history.

We guarantee small groups, so you have a chance to interact with Kriss and ask questions. As a result, our tours do sell out. Join Metro Tours and Kriss on this amazing walking tour!

Inclusions

  • Guide

What to expect

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, NY 10038

As we explore the bridge's nooks and crannies, Kriss will share little known family lore and historic items. You will have the opportunity to discover and photograph these rarely seen items from the stunning vantage point of the bridge which gave them historic significance.

Duration: 2 hours

Meeting point

52 Brooklyn Bridge Blvd, New York, NY 10038, USA

Additional information

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Transportation is wheelchair accessible
  • Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

Exclusions

  • Coffee and/or Tea
  • Gratuities

Ticket delivery

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.
MaryCarolyn_G
March 2020

Kriss is an excellent guide and historian. Such a treat to walk the Bridge with a Roebling and his artifacts and stories!

mcgatzke
March 2020

The “Ultimate Insider’s” tour is the perfect description. Kriss is an excellent guide and a natural historian. Such a treat to walk the Bridge with a Roebling family member, see his artifacts, and listen to his stories!

theresa_v
March 2020

Chris was an unprecedented wealth of information. His anecdotes provide a level of history you will not get in a book.

Mark E
March 2020

Outstanding concept for a tour. The great...great grandson of the Roebling father and son (and his wife) brings the history to life with personal family stories. Amazing original journals, instruments and pieces of the original bridge are like cream cheese icing on a fine carrot cake. You get ...

Tom_G
February 2020

We really enjoyed the time we spent with Kriss on this walking tour of the bridge. He does a great job of telling all about the creation of the bridge and the folks involved. Kriss is related to the original bridge builders and had so much knowledge we could have never learned from anyone else. H...

392loub
February 2020

I can’t curb my enthusiasm. This was truly special. Kriss is a living piece of human history who walked & talked us across The Brooklyn Bridge. He offered such unexpected insights that only his family could know of. The story of The Bridge is already very interesting; It’s the first expansi...

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