New York City: Artists of Manhattan Self-Guided City Exploration Game

Explore Manhattan's artists on a self-guided city exploration game, following a clue-based route past Washington Square Park and legendary venues.

Getting started

Use your smartphone with an internet connection to access the self-guided city exploration game at any time that suits you. Start the activity whenever you prefer, then follow the app instructions to begin solving clues. You decide when to set off, with no fixed meeting point or guide to wait for.

What to expect

Washington Square Park

This central Greenwich Village park is one of Manhattan's most known gathering spots and a key landmark on your route. It anchors your exploration of the neighborhood that shaped poets, musicians, and writers.

Features

• Trace a clue-based route about poets and musicians that leads you into and around Washington Square Park, uncovering how figures like Bob Dylan and Edgar Allan Poe are connected to the area.
• Take part in a self-guided city exploration game that turns each corner of the park and its surroundings into a puzzle you solve on your phone, with no physical tour guide involved.
• Use the flexible start, pause, and resume options to linger as long as you like in the park before continuing to the next set of clues.

The Bitter End

The Bitter End is a long-running music club in Greenwich Village that has hosted many well-known performers. It is a key stop as you follow the story of New York's live music scene.

Features

• Follow clues that guide you to The Bitter End, where you stand outside the venue that once featured artists such as Bob Dylan and Barbara Streisand on its stage.
• Experience how the self-guided city exploration game uses each location as part of the narrative, revealing where musicians lived and performed as you go.
• Keep your pace entirely your own; the private self-guided experience with no human contact lets you pause near the club or move on as soon as you are ready.

Electric Lady Studios

Electric Lady Studios, set up by Jimi Hendrix, is one of Manhattan's most noted recording studios and forms a highlight of your route. You approach it as part of the wider story of how music evolved in this neighborhood.

Features

• Approach Electric Lady Studios as your clues send you along nearby streets, inviting you to imagine the musical sessions that took place inside and the wider musical aura of the building.
• Continue along the clue-based route about poets and musicians, linking Electric Lady Studios with earlier stops like Washington Square Park and The Bitter End.
• Take advantage of 24/7 availability so you can reach this part of the route at night or during the day, always within a private self-guided experience with no human contact.

Wrapping up

You can finish the route whenever you solve the final clue, then use the flexible start, pause, and resume options to revisit any locations later on the same self-guided city exploration game.