The Walking Tour of Central Park
- Duration: 3 (three) hours
- Cost Per Person: $45
New York's backyard - The Landscape Masterpiece of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
Let’s see why this place is so special to all New Yorkers and is known worldwide for idyllic beauty.
See New York City's very special place in three hours. We will meet by the Plaza Hotel and see the southern third of this wonderful place.
Sights include: The Central Park Zoo, Parks Dept HQ in the Arsenal Building, Children’s Zoo, Balto the Dog statue, Elm Tree Grove, Literary Walk, Bethesda Fountain, The Lake and Strawberry Field. You will see the park like you have never seen it before. Join me.
Food & Dining
Hot dog carts and pretzel stands throughout the park.
Walking Tour of lower Broadway. Includes Wall Street and WTC Memorial Plaza.
- Duration: 3 (three) hours
- Cost Per Person: $45
Where it all began, first as New Amsterdam for 40 years and then New York. It was also America's first Capital in 1789. I will show you where George Washington was inaugurated.
Starting in Battery Park or Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. See the Harbor. View the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Hudson River, NJ, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Verrazano - Narrows Bridge, Upper Bay, the Narrows and Governor’s Island. All in New York Harbor. Walk along historic lower Broadway, the Canyon of Heroes, where NYC was founded. See the Bull, Wall Street, Federal Hall and Trinity Church. Then ending at the World Trade Center site.
Food & Dining
Many delis, hot dog carts and pretzel stands, all along downtown. At the end, there is a large Food Court, called Hudson Eats.
Walking Tour over The Brooklyn Bridge
- Duration: 3 (three) hours
- Cost Per Person: $45
Learn the marvelous story of the building of this bridge. Why did it take almost 14 years to complete?
Designing it, building it, celebrating it and those that died for it. It changed the City of New York and the City of Brooklyn forever.
We will also learn of the Roebling family and its members who worked tirelessly on this project.
Viewing and exploring the City from the pedestrian path of the historic, engineering marvel of a bridge. Opened in 1883, it connects the once independent city of Brooklyn to Manhattan.
We will walk, explore and see the sites along the Brooklyn Bridge and I'll let you know their history. Then, it’s on to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO.
Food & Dining
Once in Brooklyn, we are in very chic, DUMBO with 19th century manufacturing structures. Now filled with cafes, top-notch Brooklyn made chocolates, delicious cookies and wonderful bakeries. We can enjoy them by the waterfront. Nearby, in historic Brooklyn Heights, are some of the world’s most famous Pizza establishments. They are all just a short walk.
Jewish Walking Tour of NYC's Lower East Side
- Duration: 3 (three) hours
- Cost Per Person: $45
Let's see the Old Neighborhood, because it doesn't look like this anymore!
At the turn of the 20th century NY's Lower East Side was the most crowded place on Earth.
Jews arrived in what was then called New Amsterdam in the 1650's. Along our route we will see a huge part of the history of the 20th century and how the Jewish people have helped to shape that history.
This private walk shows the historic sites of NY's Lower East Side.
Highlights include:
- Food at the start, food at the end, history in between.
- A former shul that is now a residence
- Tenements
- Yiddish newspapers
- My grandfather's former residence when he arrived in this country.
A shul visit may be included on a Sunday.
Food & Dining
- Katz's Deli, from "that" movie. Their slogan is: "Katz's Thats All".
- Russ and Daughter Appetizers, now in its 4th generation of family ownership.
- Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery, since 1910.
- Candy store almost 100 years old.
- Pickles from the Barrel.
- New York's last remaining Bialy Bakery, they have bagels too.
Harlem Walk
- Duration: 3 (three) hours
- Cost Per Person: $45
Harlem, NYC's largest neighborhood. There is so much there!
Beautiful architecture and so much history.
Black, White, Jewish, Irish, Italian; they're all there.
Come and walk with me thru Strivers Row, Hamilton Heights, Sugar Hill, Astor Row, see the famous Apollo Theater on 125th Street and more.
You will be surprised as we walk in one of NYC's very first planned residential communities. Today it is the center of America's African-American community.
Many changes are happening there now, let’s go see them.
Food & Dining
Once in Harlem, we are just a short walk from several culinary delights. Some old, some very new, but all interesting.
High Line Park
- Duration: 3 (three) hours
- Cost Per Person: $45
Once a freight Rail Line, now 1.5m/2.4km park.
A unique and beautiful place in New York.
See the native plants and wildflowers in the heart of the former manufacturing and wharf district.
I will also tell the story of the West Side Cowboy and "Death Avenue".
Now a public park that was saved from demolition. Today we see new housing and wonderful architecture.
We will get to all of that and the history that remains.
Come and walk with me thru the old and the new.
Food & Dining
Hudson Yards at the start and historical Chelsea Market at the end have many culinary delights. Some old, some very new, but all interesting.