TellBetter

Self-guided audio walking tours of NYC. At TellBetter Tours, we tell better stories. On VoiceMap app.

03/31/2026

Lace up your Doc Martens. Our new audio walking tour of the East Village along St. Mark's Place has arrived. Where the Yippies pranked their way into history and vintage clothing first became cool. With more stories per block here than anywhere else in NYC, this tour covers a lot of ground in a very short distance. On the VoiceMap app.

11/04/2025

Announcing our newest audio walking tour: The Lower East Side. Once the densest slum in human history, packed with pickles and pushcarts, tenements and sweatshops, garment workers and gangsters, kosher delis, Marxist newspapers and Yiddish jokes. We take you back to a time when progressive charities, settlement houses, libraries, bath houses and synagogues lifted Jewish immigrants up, while sweatshop bosses beat them down. When hardship bred endless hope and humor. Oy vey, such a tour. Take it already. On the VoiceMap app.

10/20/2025

Our Gilded Age Walking tour is now one of Top 10 tours on VoiceMap -- out of over 2000! So they created this video to promote it. Find it on the free VoiceMap app.

08/11/2025

A recent user comment on our Washington Square tour. Many of our biggest fans are NYC residents, discovering new neighborhoods, or rediscovering their own. Look for TellBetter audio walking tours on the VoiceMap app.

06/02/2025

Today it's a punchline, but in the late1800's the scam was real -- and happened so frequently that Ellis Island immigration officials handed out flyers warning immigrants not to fall for it. Just one of the fascinating stories you’ll hear on our awesome new audio walking tour: “Brooklyn Bridge and DUMBO: Over the river and through the ‘hood.” Come stroll through time. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll get the bends from working down in the caissons. Find the tour on the app.
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02/11/2025

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02/04/2025

NEW AUDIO WALKING TOUR: Brooklyn Heights. America's First Suburb. NYC's first historic district. Home to abolitionists and suffragists. Pulitzer-winning poets and playwrights. Where minister Henry Ward Beecher held a live slave auction in Plymouth Church, then set the young woman free. Hear fascinating stories and gripping scandals come to life with actors, sound effects and music. On the VoiceMap app. Link in comments.

01/03/2025

If you liked the new Dylan movie, you'll love our audio walking tour of Greenwich Village called "Pride and Folk." You'll walk the street where the album cover was shot on a winter day, see the apartment building where Dylan lived with Suze Rotolo, as well as those of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Dave Van Ronk. Plus MacDougal Street, home to the Gaslight, Cafe Wha?, Cafe Reggio and the Kettle of Fish, where they sang and drank. And to reward you for bundling up and getting out there, the tour is just $8.99 in January. On the VoiceMap app.

12/14/2024

Even on a chilly December day, someone took our SoHo tour and left the nicest comment: "I come and stay in SoHo every other year for work. I am familiar with the shops, but was looking to get to know the area better. I'm also am amateur photographer with an interest in street and architecture photography, and a history geek. I downloaded this audio tour, popped in some earbuds, and had the absolute best time. The tour moves at a comfortable pace. The guide is very engaging, and the sound effects enhance the experience. You will not be bored. I was shocked to discover things I had walked by, or walked over, tons of times with fascinating stories I would have never discovered or realized otherwise. Highly recommend this tour to anyone who comes to visit SoHo!" On the VoiceMap app.

11/02/2024

Thanks, VoiceMap for promoting our tour of Central Park, filled with great stories and hidden secrets.

10/14/2024

After another summer of record-doubling sales, we've just launched a new NYC audio walking tour: "Slumming It in Five Points, Chinatown and the Bowery." During the Gilded Age, wealthy swells would leave their Fifth Avenue mansions and "go slumming" in downtown saloons, dance halls, brothels and o***m dens, complete with guide and police es**rt. We walk in their footsteps, finding the spots where tattooing, tap dancing, blackface minstrel acts and the term "Jim Crow" originated. Where PT Barnum and Irving Berlin got their start. Home of the Tong Wars (bloody), the Doctor's Riot (macabre), the Straw Hat Riots (ridiculous), and the Dead Rabbits Riot (depicted in Scorcese's Gangs of New York). It might not be NYC's most scenic neighborhood, but it's definitely our most colorful tour. On the VoiceMap app

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