TellBetter

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

08/03/2026

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06/15/2026

The Knicks have never before had a ticker tape parade. Which is wild, because all sorts of people got them. This is Wrong Way Corrigan, a pilot who filed a solo flight plan from NY to California, and somehow landed in Ireland by mistake. Upon his return, they revoked his license, then gave him a parade. One of the many stories you'll hear on our walking tour up the Canyon of Heroes. On the VoiceMap app. Link in the comments.

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.

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