July 22, 2007
New York City tours and tour guides (official links)
(Updated August 2009)
Here are some of the outfits offering walking, bus and bike tours of New York. Free stuff's at the end. (The subject grouping isn't an exact science, as some who focus on architecture, may also do food walks and whatnot.) See the New York calendar page for some of the upcoming tours, or go directly to the following sights for complete offerings:
Art/architecture/history
Municipal Art Society
MoMA’s before- and after-hours tours
ARTalks
Open House New York
New York Transit Museum
Justin Ferate
Francis Morrone
Forgotten New York
Joyce Gold
Afoot Walking Tours
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
South Street Seaport Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Plymouth Church
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Tribute Center - WTC perimeter
Urban Oyster
Food and drink
Institute of Culinary Education
Nosh Walks
City Food Tours
Chocolate Zoom
Literary pub crawl
Brooklyn Brewery
Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour
Scott’s Pizza Tours
Enthusiastic Gourmet
Food on Foot Tours
Music, movies and TV
On Location Tours
NBC Studio Tour
"Wicked" - behind the Emerald Curtain
Hip-Hop Hush Tours
Harlem Hip-Hop Tours
Big Apple Jazz Tours
Harlem Spirituals
Apollo Theater
Carnegie Hall
Met Opera
Lincoln Center
Radio City Music Hall
General/multiple topics
Big Onion Walking Tours
92nd Street Y
NY Like a Native
Gray Line
City Sights NY
NY Party Shuttle Tours
Levys’ Unique NY
Walkin’ NY
A1 NYC Sightseeing
All City NY
Gotham Walking Tours
Uncle Sam's NY
Inside Out Tours
Specialized
Ghosts of NY
PhotoTrek Tours
Photo Walk-abouts
Captain Bob's Coney Island
East Village Walking Tours
Jewish Tours of New York
Hassidic walking tours
Museum of the Chinese in Americas
Audubon Society
"Wildman" Steve Brill
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tours
Shop N Strip lingerie tour
Surveillance Camera Outdoor Walking Tours
A Tour Grows in Brooklyn
Sports
Yankee Stadium tours
Madison Square Garden All Access Tour
Bike the Big Apple
Bike and Roll
NYC Run
Manhattan Kayak Company
By boat
Circle Line downtown
Circle Line uptown
New York Water Taxi
NY Waterway
W.O Decker 1930s tugboat
1885 schooner Pioneer
Classic Harbor Line
Hidden Harbor Tours
NYC Ducks (prevously "Splash Tours")
By helicopter
Liberty Helicopter Tours
Helicopter Flight Services
New York Helicopter Charter
ZIP Helicopters
Scavenger hunt/game tours
Accomplice: New York
City Hunt
Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts
By cellphone/MP3/download/GPS
Skyscraper Museum
TailoredTours.com
Talking Street
SoundWalk
City Listen
Walkin' Broadway
Flex Tours
Rough Guides
Sound for Sights
CityShow (GPS)
Free
Big Apple Greeter
Bronx Trolley
Heart of Brooklyn Trolley
Central Park Conservancy
City Hall
Tweed Courthouse
Gracie Mansion
Downtown Alliance – Wall Street
Times Square
Union Square
Lower East Side
NYC Dept. of Parks & Rec
Grand Central Terminal
St. Marks Place & 8th Street
National Park Service
Earlier: Touring backstage, behind-the-scenes New York
Luckily for bus guides, a sucker's born every minute
July 22, 2007 9:31 AM in Basic NYC Guide, Links, Tours
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