WOMEN OF NEW YORK:  Travel all throughout Manhattan and learn and visit the locations and stories that made them famous and infamous. (NEW) 

STRANGE NEW YORK: “with a little sex thrown in.”  Not pornographic, done in good taste as we share the history of some of the controversial events and happenings that shaped America liberal culture.

• Travel throughout the city and visit some unusual places
• A visit to the “Sex Museum” founded by Authors and Phd’s (some nudity) but much about women’s rights.
• Meet some unusual people

• Learn about this famous area
• Newspaper row and its fascinating history
• PT Barnum
• Boss Tweed
• African burial Ground
• Walk part of the Brooklyn Bridge
• St. Paul’s Church
• Woolworth building

• Travel in comfort on a high speed water taxi
• Visit some of the galleries of Chelsea
• See the World Trade Center site from a different perspective
• View an aircraft carrier up close
• Walk the streets of D.U.M.B.O.
• Learn about the impact of the steamboat and ferry service on New York City and Brooklyn
• Explore the tip of Manhattan where the history of the City began
• Eat, shop and enjoy the sites at one of New York’s busiest piers
• Take in wonderful water views

 TRIBECA and Tango Dancing lessons: Explore this great neighborhood of the affluent and the home neighborhood of Robert DeNiro and JFK Jr. 

GREENWICH VILLAGE:  Literary and cultural center of New York discusses everything from art, literature, music and counter-culture to history highlights in the cradle of intellectuals.

• See the narrowest house in NYC
• Visit a park where 20,000 people were buried
• Learn about “the Trial of the Century”
• Look for a speakeasy

QUEENS 1:  Explore Ethnic Flushing, Queens Museum and the former worlds fair site and Ethnic experience to a Indian temple 

QUEENS 2:  Visit Astoria, Roosevelt Island, Naguchi Museum and Long Iskland City 

ARMCHAIR TOUR SERIES: ( NEW!!!!) A series of pre tour presentations  in the comforts of a local Long Island hotel. This is geared for peole who want to really gain an insight into the many neighborhoods of NYC prior to a visit. You’ll learn during this 3 hour presentation, all the  places and things to do during a future visit.There are slides and video shown during this event.   (OVER 25 TO CHOOSE FROM!)  

SECRET CENTRAL PARK:  New York’s “Garden of Eden” discusses the creation of this oasis and the historical aspects of New York City’s challenge of urbanization. 

• Visit the world of Olmstead and Vaux, the premier landscape artists in the USA
• See NYC’s only gondola
• Learn about the pig farms and bone- boiling factories
• Visit a theatre, a rambling, a zoo and a castle without leaving the park
• French, English and Italian garden visit

CITY HALL/BROOKLYN BRIDGE/MUNICIPAL DISTRICT & THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND:  Trace the history of New York City’s most prominent early area from Newspaper Row to present day. 

• Visit the “Cathedral of Commerce” built from nickels and dimes
• Walk the Brooklyn Bridge and explore its history and family tragedy
• 1871 Presidential candidates (female and black abolitionist)
• “Greatest speaker since St. Paul” and Harriet Beecher Stowe
• See the site where NYC paid $187,000 for 34 chairs and 4 tables
• Hearst, Pulitzer, Greeley, Bennett, Ochs, Munsey
• New York’s first Pneumatic Subway
• South Street Seaport and Fulton Fish Market
• P.T. Barnum’s impact on NYC
• St. Paul’s Church and George Washington
• Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall, Corruption and America’s most celebrated cartoonist

BROOKLYN SERIES: 5 TOURS ( See Below)

# 1 Brooklyn Heights & Dumbo Art area (“Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”)
#2 Ethnic Brooklyn (Jewish)
#3 RED HOOK and Brewery TOUR
# 4 Brighton Beach ( Russian) and Coney Island
# 5 Prospect Park and Park Slope  

IRISH NEW YORK: Visit and learn the history of the Irish Immigration as assimilation in American Culture as you travel through out the city. 

• Old  and New St. Patrick’s
• The Gangs of new York
• The Irish Famine memorial
• Famous pubs and “speak easy’s”
• The Fire Department Museum and it’s history
• Learn about Boss Tweed and his $ 250,000 courthouse that cost $ 12 million

and much, much, more !! 

MILLIONAIRES’ AND MUSEUM MILE:  How the rich and famous impacted the most powerful city in the world.  “The elite of New York”. 

• Gaze at the homes of the rich and famous
• View a “real” Michaelangelo
• Learn about an attempted assassination of America’s steel magnate
• “Poor Little Rich Girls”
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney “Ashcan School of Art”
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• See the most famous toy store in the world
• Designing the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• See a foreign country in NYC
• Walk “The Bloody Angle”
• Learn the truth about gang wars, opium dens, bachelor society and the Chinese Mafia
• Savor the delights of Dim Sum
• Visit a Buddhist Temple
• The Irish immigration and the gangs of New York
• Chinese funeral customs & an herbal medicine shop

• Why Wall Street?
• The cross-dressing Governor
• Peg-Leg Peter Stuyvesant; good or bad
• Why did Americans eat hot dogs and liberty cabbage?
• New York Slave Market
• Origin of the Jews in New York
• Bowling Green & Revolutionary War
• Staten Island Ferry
• The US Custom House and the Titanic

• See tenement life as it was
• Enjoy the “Best Pickles in the World”
• Learn about immigration
• “Where Harry Met Sally” re-enactment
• Experience an ethnic eater’s delight
• Shop ‘till you drop
• “Cantors’ Carnegie Hall” & an visit a 1849 former synogue where presidents speak and Sarah Jessica Parker was married
• View Hassidic life/ “Mikvah” and unusual traditions; Yiddish terms in society

• Visit the area of beatniks, hippies and…
• Venture into hidden garden oases
• See where Andy Warhol got his start
• Walk a street with 31 Indian restaurants
• Learn what the I-beam and Jell-o have in common
• Body piercing and tattoos
• Kleine Deutshland “Little Germany”
• Actors’ Riot
• The Astors
• Birth of Off-Broadway theatre Joseph Papp theatre

• View cast iron architecture at its best
• “Hell’s 100 Acres”
• Learn which president’s wife was a shoplifter
• Visit the sites of Mafia hits
• Walk the streets of brothels and ghosts
• Peruse the art galleries and lofts
• See the “First St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• New York’s “Left Bank”
• One-of-a-kind boutiques
• Outdoor cafes
• The “Black Hand”

• Walk the streets of the most beautiful brownstones in NYC
• Sample real “Soul” food
• See a neighborhood in transition
• Find out why a former President chose this area
• Harlem Renaissance
• Apollo Theatre
• 400 churches
• Malcolm X

• See where the New Year’s Eve ball drops
• Visit the site of a funeral for a star
• Walk the streets of hopes and dreams
• Listen to the “Lullaby of Broadway”
• Prostitution and “Midnight Cowboy”
• Learn where the term “Break a Leg” comes from
• Musical History
• Father Duffy and the “Fighting 69^th”
• “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
• Mae White and her “Assault on Morality”

• See the homes of famous stars
• Visit the home of the dinosaurs
• Tour the area where the “World’s Greatest Music” is played
• …And you thought NYC was flat
• Visit a cathedral with an alter the size of 3 football fields
• Tour NYC’s Ivy League School
• Get a snack at Seinfeld’s favorite eatery
• Enter a tomb where no one is buried

• See Seward’s head on Lincoln’s body
• Winston Churchill and NYC?
• Hear about “The Trial of the Century”
• Visit a park where you need a key to get in
• Stroll by stores where a handkerchief cost more than a salesgirl’s yearly salary

• How the UN site was originally slaughter houses
• Elephant Envy “ The embarrassing Satue”
• See the only legal protest site in New York City
• View the site of Superman’s Daily Planet Building
• Discover the secrets of Grand Central Terminal’s “The Mole People”
• Peer into the famous “Apartment” of Grand Central
• See why the ceiling of Grand Central is wrong
• Learn about the water reservoir that saved New York City
• Look up at the New York version of the Sistine Chapel
• See the site where George Gershwin first played “Rhapsody in Blue”

• “Astorbilt”; 19 mansions for the Astors and the Vanderbilts
• Retailing at its highest level
• Class struggles
• Keeping up with the Joneses
• New York’s first and most prominent hotels
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• The private, elite clubs of New York
• New York’s greatest architects
• Visit the “Top of the Rock”

• Learn the origins of “Sugar Hill”
• Wander through Alexander Hamilton’s only permanent residence in NYC
• Tour some of New York City’s least visited and “best” museums
• Walk the gorgeous streets of North Harlem
• Find out about City College’s Nobel Prize winners
• Visit the Schomburg Center to gain greater understanding of the contributions of African-Americans to NYC, the US and the world
• Learn about the “White House of Harlem”
• Even see the site of the Polo Grounds

• Walk the streets of the East Village, a great melting pot of New York City cultures
• See two neighborhoods going through re-gentrification
• Experience Indian, Russian, Rumanian and Belgian cuisines
• Visit the movie sites of “Where Harry Met Sally” and “Crossing Delancey”
• Find an old speakeasy that’s now an upscale restaurant and nightclub
• Nosh on Jewish goodies such as pickles, knishes, bialys and other delights
• Save room for a stop at a great old fashioned candy store

• Learn about the origins of the diverse types of Chinese cuisines
• See a wonderful variety of the freshest fish, meats and vegetables at prices you won’t believe
• Enjoy “dim sum” and experience an eclectic variety of delights
• Sample wonderful teas and other Asian beverages
• Savor some of the best dishes from both Northern and Southern Italy
• Don’t forget those delicious Italian pastries and other mouthwatering desserts…or, try a little cappuccino

• The actors Church
• Murray Hill secrets
• The unusual “ Parade” incidents
• JP MORGAN incurable ailment
• Learn about the strange James Gordon Bennett family( Herald Tribune) and “ Dr. Livingstone I presume” episode.

• Go on board historic ships
• View wonderful maritime exhibits
• See what life was like at the port in New York City’s early days
• Learn how “the” Mrs. Astor gained her wealth
• Find out how New York’s (and probably the nation’s) largest fish market operates
• Spend time at wonderful shops and cafes along cobblestone streets and in a converted pier
• Enjoy a beautiful river view of lower Manhattan

• See one of the most beautiful glass structures in New York
• Marvel at 50 feet high palm trees growing indoors
• Enjoy wonderful eateries and shops
• View the site of the new World Trade Center
• Visit one of the most moving memorials in New York
• Learn how a wonderful neighborhood was created from landfill
• Travel to a city that was the home of the first official baseball game, America’s first brewery and the place where the zipper was invented
• Find out why this area is home to some of New York’s brightest students

• Walk through a cemetery which seems more like a park
• See the final resting place of Vanderbilt’s, Woolworths, Armours and other rich and famous families, as well as many Jazz legends and Civil War soldiers
• Learn about the lives and deaths of some of the most notable people in New York City
• Visit the “House that Ruth Built” as you’ve never seen it and learn its history
• Stroll through Monument Park
• Spend time in the Yankee Clubhouse and locker room
• Sit in the dugout where so many baseball greats have sat

• Visit various food shops and listen to family secrets.
• Experience this wonderful heritage and its ethnic Cultural center
• Hear the story of 6 Italian Bros. who sculptured the Lincoln Memorial
• Travel through the last true Italian neighborhoods of NY.
• Listen to fascinating stories about the amazing Gould library and its sites for  many movies sites like “ a Beautiful Mind “. Visit NY’s Pantheon!!!
• Bring your appetite and sample some of the hest Italian food on the planet and see how many of your favorite dishes are made
• Watch the art of cigar making
• Hear “Dion and the Belmonts music”.

NEW ROCHELLE HISTORIC TOUR: Visit historic Westchester County’s New Rochelle… only “ 45 minutes from Broadway”.  Learn about the famous and infamous people and events of its illustrious past. 

• Mighty Mouse  & Terrytoons Cartoon Studio
• Thomas Paine’s home and his life
• RKO and Loews and the “Golden Age of Theatre”
• The dueling death of Francis Scott Key’s son
•  Visit Trinity St. Paul’s Church
• Lou Gehrig “The Pride of the Yankees”
• Home of Norman Rockwell’s studio and his life
• The famous suffragettes who lived here.
• Why George Washington would “not” have been recommended for military service.
• The plight of the Irish in America
• Burning at the stake and colonial tortures
• Andrew Carnegie’s secretary
• “Ragtime” and the “Girl on the red velvet swing”
• How New Rochelleans got out of the Civil War draft!
• Howdy Doody’s best friend
• Graveyard visit and the jargon associated to it!

• “Westchester Forgotten Railroad”
• And much more.

• GV with a tilt on women only
• Infamous, artistic, talented ,controversial and very liberal

And more…………..  

NANTUCKET IN THE BRONX (CITY ISLAND)

• Nautical New York
• The only “Potters ( Public Burial ground) field” in New York

• Visit the fabulous buildings and gardens of the Chinese Scholars (Only 2 in America) Building built in China and reassembled here surrounded by gorgeous gardens of ancient china and right in out own back yard.

Travel the ferry and learn the secrets of Governors Island and visit the      fabulous Sailors Snug harbor facility. 

PARK AVE: The Street of the Rich 

• The Waldorf Astoria secrets
• Secret underground stop
• New York most unusual statue
• The Berlin Wall
• St. Bartholomew’s Church
• Covered bridges and cut and cover
• The Rich and Famous

 WESTCHESTER’S ROCKEFELLERS “KYKUIT”: Mansion of John D. Rockefeller home and historic Westchester with an Evening with the Westchester Broadway Theater dinner theater. 

SAILING ADENTURE and Tour : around New York Harbor 

NEW HOPE, PENNSYLVANIA:

• The Genius belt

• From Harlem to the Battery (off and on bus)

• Travel through many of the neighborhoods of NYC with Latino and Hispanic heritage

• See New York new creation and elevated park call “ The Newest park and hottest neighborhood formerly meat packing district
• Chelsea market visit and very expensive boutiques “ Stella McCartney”

• Visit some of the interested places associated with Jewish history and culture.
• Jewish Plymouth Rock
• First Rosh Hashanah services in a windmill

• Featuring Movie locations from TV and Movies
• Museum of Radio and TV or Moving image Museum an option

• Visit by bus multiple museums that the average person does not know.
• No walking except inside the museums
• Complete narration as you travel throughout the city

• Attend a live reenactment of Old time radio broadcast

• Neighborhood tour options prior to show

Examples:       Pick 1 or 2 neighborhoods of your choice to visit       

Bus with “limited walking” tours available 

WORLD FASTEST TALKING WOMEN TOUR

• Fran Capo and Art Zuckerman team up and tour sites of Manhattan

• Fran is a standup comic and in the Guinness Book as the “ Worlds fastest talking women”
• Tour destinations are costumed to you varied interests