A story in the Washington Post by Anne McDonough (“Hear Here!“) discusses services by SoundWalk, AudioSteps and TalkingStreet that offer museum and neighborhood audio tours in MP3 format for between US$12 and $35 each.
Soundwalk tours include familiar neighborhoods, which become even more so after walking them with an insider. A walking tour of Little Italy, for example, is narrated by “Sopranos” cast member Vinny Vella. Writer Paul Auster narrates a walk through Ground Zero. Auster augments the walk by talking with historians, a poet and Mohawk ironworkers who helped build the World Trade Center. A woman talks about the phone message she received from her husband there; standing not far from where he died, you hear him saying goodbye.
Outside the tourist haunts, you can, for example, follow the voice of hip-hop veteran Jazzy Jay through the Bronx. Or tour Williamsburg’s Hasidic community in the company of Joseph Piekarski, a Lubavitcher.
A story in the Washington Post by Anne McDonough (“Hear Here!“) discusses services by SoundWalk, AudioSteps and TalkingStreet that offer museum and neighborhood audio tours in MP3 format for between US$12 and $35 each.
Soundwalk tours include familiar neighborhoods, which become even more so after walking them with an insider. A walking tour of Little Italy, for example, is narrated by “Sopranos” cast member Vinny Vella. Writer Paul Auster narrates a walk through Ground Zero. Auster augments the walk by talking with historians, a poet and Mohawk ironworkers who helped build the World Trade Center. A woman talks about the phone message she received from her husband there; standing not far from where he died, you hear him saying goodbye.
Outside the tourist haunts, you can, for example, follow the voice of hip-hop veteran Jazzy Jay through the Bronx. Or tour Williamsburg’s Hasidic community in the company of Joseph Piekarski, a Lubavitcher.
