{ "verifiedAt": "2026-10-21", "operator": "City Layer Tours", "website": "https://www.citylayertours.com", "contact": "hello@citylayertours.com", "primaryExperience": "NYC guided movie and TV walking tour with optional smart glasses", "bookingAuthority": "Bókun live calendar and selected rate", "products": [ { "id": "BOKUN_1252411", "bokunActivityId": 1252411, "name": "Smart Glasses Walking Tour NYC — Movie & TV History", "url": "https://www.citylayertours.com/tour/nyc-smart-glasses-movie-tour/", "frUrl": "https://www.citylayertours.com/fr/tour/nyc-smart-glasses-movie-tour/", "bookingPageUrl": "https://www.citylayertours.com/tour/nyc-smart-glasses-movie-tour/#booking", "description": "A 2.5-hour guided Midtown movie and TV walking tour, from 19 West 50th Street, New York to Grand Central Terminal. 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Cinema, television and the real city share the same frame." }, { "name": "St. Patrick’s Cathedral", "theme": "Fifth Avenue’s architectural contrast", "description": "Step away from the broadcast studios to see the cathedral against Midtown’s towers. Your guide uses this change of scale to read the city as a filmmaker would: framing, perspective and the buildings that give a scene its character." }, { "name": "Ed Sullivan Theater", "theme": "The Beatles · The Ed Sullivan Show", "description": "The walk opens out into television and music history at the theater associated with the Beatles’ 1964 American TV appearance. Compare the street in front of you with the broadcast images and hear how a television stage helped turn performers into global icons." }, { "name": "Broadway walk", "theme": "From the television studio to the theater district", "description": "Glasses off while walking between viewing stops. Follow Broadway south as your guide connects live theater, movie palaces and the entertainment industry that shaped the neighborhood." }, { "name": "TKTS Red Steps", "theme": "A wide shot of Times Square", "description": "Take in the canyon of signs and lights from the TKTS area. This is a moment to orient yourself, take photographs and see how the scale of Times Square turns a crowded crossroads into an instantly recognizable screen image." }, { "name": "One Times Square", "theme": "The ball drop & the city on screen", "description": "Look toward the building associated with the New Year’s Eve ball drop. Your guide connects the real landmark with the spectacle of Times Square: news, crowds, advertising and a city made to be watched." }, { "name": "Times Square", "theme": "Vanilla Sky · Captain America: The First Avenger", "description": "Two very different arrivals in the same city. Revisit the unsettling empty Times Square of Vanilla Sky and Captain America’s encounter with modern New York. Compare the screen’s version with the billboards and moving crowds around you." }, { "name": "New Amsterdam Theatre", "theme": "Broadway’s stage history", "description": "A Broadway interlude between movie stops. Outside the New Amsterdam, discover the relationship between theater, screen entertainment and the changing identity of 42nd Street. Theater admission and a stage performance are not part of this walk." }, { "name": "West 42nd Street", "theme": "Taxi Driver’s New York", "description": "Hear about the older, rougher image of the neighborhood that runs through films such as Taxi Driver. This is a story about a changing city and its screen identity, told as you walk toward Bryant Park." }, { "name": "Bryant Park", "theme": "A green pause behind the library", "description": "Leave the billboards behind for the park beside the library. The change of setting gives your guide another way to show how a city can move from spectacle to intimacy within a few blocks. Continue toward the library’s famous Fifth Avenue facade." }, { "name": "New York Public Library", "theme": "Ghostbusters · John Wick: Chapter 3", "description": "From the opening library encounter in Ghostbusters to John Wick’s library confrontation, this landmark changes genre on screen. Your guide connects the facade, steps and library imagery with the clips. The tour does not visit the Ghostbusters firehouse, and ticketed interiors are not included." }, { "name": "Chrysler Building & East 42nd Street", "theme": "Men in Black 3 · Armageddon", "description": "Look up as the walk heads east toward Grand Central. Discuss the Chrysler Building’s screen presence, including the movie worlds of Men in Black 3 and Armageddon. Your guide distinguishes the real landmark from the versions created for the camera and visual effects." }, { "name": "Grand Central Terminal", "theme": "North by Northwest · The Avengers · I Am Legend", "description": "Finish with Hitchcock, superheroes and a transformed Manhattan. Compare North by Northwest’s Grand Central with the city imagined by The Avengers and I Am Legend. This finale is also about movie-making: what is a real location, what is a set, and what has been rebuilt or transformed on screen?" } ], "movieAndArchiveHighlights": [ "Home Alone 2 at Rockefeller Center", "The Beatles and television archives at Ed Sullivan Theater", "Vanilla Sky and Captain America at Times Square", "Ghostbusters and John Wick: Chapter 3 at New York Public Library", "North by Northwest, The Avengers and I Am Legend in the Grand Central chapter" ], "bookingUrl": "https://widgets.bokun.io/online-sales/9d07a235-74dd-4080-a58b-ec6dd1e92e9f/experience/1252411?hideLanguageSelector=false&hostUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.citylayertours.com/tour/nyc-smart-glasses-movie-tour/", "bookingChannel": { "id": 438120, "uuid": "9d07a235-74dd-4080-a58b-ec6dd1e92e9f", "provider": "Bókun" }, "availability": "Live inventory only. This catalog is not a live quote or booking confirmation.", "cancellation": "Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure; check selected rate terms before payment.", "accessNote": "Walking route and viewing stops may adapt to local conditions. No guaranteed celebrity encounters, backstage access or ticketed interiors.", "source": "https://www.citylayertours.com/tour/nyc-smart-glasses-movie-tour/" }, { "id": "BOKUN_898575", "bokunActivityId": 898575, "name": "Downtown Los Angeles History & Architecture Walking Tour: DTLA's Hidden Gems", "url": "https://www.citylayertours.com/tour/downtown-la-history-architecture-tour/", "frUrl": "https://www.citylayertours.com/fr/tour/downtown-la-history-architecture-tour/", "bookingPageUrl": "https://www.citylayertours.com/tour/downtown-la-history-architecture-tour/#booking", "description": "From Blade Runner’s Bradbury Building to the movie palaces of Broadway: a guided walk through the architecture, film history and everyday life of Downtown LA.", "durationMinutes": 150, "priceFrom": 30, "currency": "USD", "pricingStatus": "Reference starting price; live date, rate and final total must be checked in Bókun.", "guidedLanguages": [ "en", "fr" ], "languages": [ "en", "fr" ], "websiteLanguages": [ "en", "fr" ], "languageNote": "Select the actual departure language in Bókun; not every date offers both languages.", "smartGlasses": "Not promised on this walking tour", "meetingPoint": { "title": "Grand Central Market (under the iconic neon Bulleit Frontier Whiskey sign on the Hill Street side)", "address": "South Hill Street 308, Los Angeles" }, "route": [ { "name": "Grand Central Market", "description": "Start with a place that is still very much part of everyday Downtown: a food hall filled with independent counters and the sounds of people meeting, shopping and eating. Your guide uses the market to introduce the neighborhood’s diversity and its relationship with the streets around it. Food purchases are separate from simply visiting the landmark." }, { "name": "Angel's Flight Railway", "description": "At the foot of Bunker Hill, the short railway connects the working city with a familiar movie image. Hear about its place in Los Angeles and its appearance in La La Land, then compare the real incline with the film’s romantic version. A ride is not guaranteed as part of the walk." }, { "name": "The Bunker Hill Steps", "description": "Read the changing landscape of Bunker Hill through its steps and viewpoints." }, { "name": "Pershing Square", "description": "A public square at the meeting point of old and new Downtown." }, { "name": "Historic Theater District", "description": "Read Broadway as a street designed to attract an audience. Marquees, entrances and decorative facades tell you how moviegoing became an event long before the film began. Your guide distinguishes the architecture of exhibition from the locations where a film was actually shot; theater interiors are subject to access." }, { "name": "The Million Dollar Theater", "description": "Sid Grauman’s early movie-palace ambition, on Broadway." }, { "name": "The Bradbury Building", "description": "Look beyond the modest street facade to the Bradbury’s celebrated atrium, when access allows. Iron railings, stairs and rising light help explain its appeal to filmmakers, especially in Blade Runner. Interior access depends on opening hours; choose a morning or weekday departure for the best chance. No private-floor access is promised." }, { "name": "The Old Bank District", "description": "Banking façades reveal another chapter in the city’s reinvention." }, { "name": "The Continental Building", "description": "Look up at the details of an early Downtown high-rise." }, { "name": "The El Dorado Lofts", "description": "Ornamental façades bring the former hotel district into focus." }, { "name": "The Last Bookstore", "description": "A bookshop and creative landmark; entry is subject to business hours." }, { "name": "The Los Angeles Theater", "description": "The Los Angeles Theatre connects Broadway’s architecture with Chaplin’s City Lights premiere. From the street, study how its ornament announces a grand night at the movies. The story concerns the experience of exhibiting a film; it is not presented as a City Lights filming location or a guaranteed auditorium visit." }, { "name": "The Jewelry District", "description": "An active commercial district, shaped by craft and enterprise." }, { "name": "The Arcade Building", "description": "A historic passage within the changing commercial city." }, { "name": "Clifton’s Republic", "description": "Hear the story of a cafeteria and its elaborate themed worlds; opening is not guaranteed." }, { "name": "The Fashion District", "description": "Textiles, design and the working city beyond the movie image." }, { "name": "The Tower Theater", "description": "A former cinema with a new use makes the idea of a city layer tangible. Observe the Tower’s historic theater architecture alongside its conversion into an Apple store. 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The operator’s route includes a Pretty Woman location, giving your guide a starting point to talk about the film’s Hollywood identity and the difference between a place on screen and the street you are walking today." }, { "name": "Egyptian Theatre", "description": "Egyptian Revival architecture turns a trip to the movies into its own spectacle. Look at the building’s theatrical identity and hear how a cinema could advertise an imagined world before its audience even entered. The stop concerns the theater’s place in the boulevard; a screening ticket is not included by default." }, { "name": "El Capitan Theatre", "description": "The story moves from live theater to cinema at El Capitan, associated with the Los Angeles premiere of Citizen Kane. Compare the historic facade with the theater’s place in contemporary premiere culture. This is a chapter about showing movies and welcoming audiences, rather than a claim that Citizen Kane was filmed here." }, { "name": "Masonic Temple", "description": "A historic building now associated with Jimmy Kimmel Live!" }, { "name": "Dolby Theatre", "description": "At the Dolby, connect the boulevard’s present-day awards identity with the earlier Roosevelt chapter of the route. Your guide explains how a ceremony, a theater and a public street together create the image of Oscar night. This walking-tour stop does not include a ceremony or backstage ticket." }, { "name": "Chinese Theatre", "description": "The forecourt’s handprints and the theatre’s enduring screen legend." }, { "name": "Hollywood Roosevelt", "description": "The Roosevelt brings the awards story back to its first ceremony in 1929. Compare that hotel setting with the scale of the Dolby nearby. 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The idea is simple: look at the real space, watch the film images connected with it in smart glasses, then compare the two. Provide your phone model when booking and follow the guide’s instructions at each viewing stop." }, { "name": "The Rendez-vous Court", "description": "The former lobby introduces the hotel’s scale and decorative language. Look at the way the space frames an arrival: height, entrances and ornament make it feel ready for a scene before a camera is added. Your guide connects the architecture with the hotel’s cinematic identity." }, { "name": "The Galleria", "description": "In the long Galleria, the experience becomes about perspective. Follow the painted ceiling and the rhythm of the space, then consider how a filmmaker can use a gallery to suggest movement, luxury or anticipation. Film images are connected with the relevant accessible spaces at selected stops." }, { "name": "The Music Room", "description": "Look up at the decorated ceiling and discover the hotel’s social history." }, { "name": "The Historic Corridor", "description": "Follow the hotel’s Academy connections through its historic corridor. Keep the chronology clear: the Biltmore hosted an Academy dinner in 1927 and later awards banquets; the first Academy Awards ceremony itself took place at the Roosevelt in 1929. Architecture and archive stories reveal different layers of Hollywood’s public image." }, { "name": "Olive Street Entrance", "description": "The operator’s itinerary links the Olive Street entrance to Chinatown. 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