Destinations
Success to me is creating an unforgettable experience for you. I want you involved in the planning of your custom tours, based on your interests. All of my tours are tailered to the patron.
Featured Touring Services
Guestsitting Services
Treat your out of town guests to a great day. I take care of them when you are not available. More Information.
Step-On Tours
Americans! Canadians! Tour Operators, Come to NYC and hire Jared the NYC Tour Guide to Step onto your coach bus for an exciting and informative 3 or 4 hour tour, or more! Tell me where you want to go, or have me make your itinerary of NYC must sees. More Information
Seasonal Tours
Vocabulary Tours
For back to schol and pre-SAT. NYC's only SAT-Prep Tour given by a former Stanley Kaplan Verbal PSAT Instructor and Tutor.
Santa Claus NYC Birthday Tour
Let's paint the town red, and celebrate the jolly old man's New York City history, and how we spread Santa's fame across America and the world.
NYC: Birthplace of the USA Tours
May-July is New York Patriot Season! Not New England Patriots — not "Born in the USA." — it's about the USA being born in NYC!
Apple Ratings
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3 Apples: The most commonly requested New York City tours, easiest to get to by foot and public transit, and sometimes can be experienced rapidly (15-150 minutes, depending on what you want) |
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2 Apples: Commonly requested tours and easy to get to by foot and public transit; may take a bit more time to experience (30-180+ minutes) |
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1 Apple: In depth touring and learning about popular or wonderful New York City sights that take a bit more time to get to or experience |
Popular Tours From Jared the NYC Tour Guide
Downtown from Colony to Financial Capitol
Skyscrapers
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO
The South Street Seaport
(I wrote the official tour)
World Trade Center
(I wrote the most popular commercial tour)
Chinatown and Little Italy
The Lower East Side
Jewish Lower East Side
Greenwich Village
The East Village
Lower East Side Community Gardens (Commissioned by the NYC Parks Dept)
Santa Claus History
Holiday Lights
42nd St
Times Square
Rockefeller Center and 5th Ave
3 Varieties of Central Park tours
Harlem
Museums famous and not-so-famous
High Line & the Meat Packing District
Other destinations to help you get started:
- The World Trade Center 360 Deep History Tour — through the bottom of Ground Zero, the history, present and future of the WTC - including the heros, the hubris, the insane that the towers attracted
- The Rent Tour of Alphabet City — squats, community gardens and Life Cafe and the movie and musical sets and scenes (discount vouchers to the theatre available)
- NYC & the Modern Traditional Christmas
- Radical NYC
- Architecture — Federal, Beaux Arts, Gothic, Modern and after
- Great Churches
- Window Shopping and Modern Retail History
- Best NYC Christmas Trees and Spectacles
- Battery Park
- Bryant Park
- Great Pizzas of NYC
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine
- Tour around the Charging Bull
- Asian American civil rights
- Old Chinatown and the Five Points
- Chowhound's NYC (affordable great eats)
- NYC, birthplace of modern rights
- NYC and Modern Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Tour
- NYC and Capitalism
- New York Harbor
- New York Public Library
- Greenwich Village and Gay NYC
- Williamsburg, Brooklyn Touring
- The Gilded Age and the Robber Barrons
- Alexander Hamilton's New York
- Great Bridges
- Slavery and Freedom and African Americans building NYC and beyond
- Columbia University's campuses past, present, and future
- New York University (NYU)
- Washington Square
- NYC on Film
- Bob Dylan's NYC / Bob Dylan on Bleecker
- Stanford White and his Civic Glory
- Immigrants - Transformation, Revolution, and Assimilation
- Lenny Bruce, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, the Yippies
- Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed — the most feared and powerful political machine
- From Triangle to Union Square - Al Smith's NYC
- Abraham Lincoln's NYC
- Federal Hall
- The National 911 Memorial Tour
- St. Paul's Chapel
- Tour Trinity Church (in the Financial District)
- Woolworth Building
- United Nations
- Fun Tours for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
- Peter Cooper's NYC
- Under-rated Museums
- Museum Mile Touring
- Tour the American Museum of Natural History
- Guggenheim Museum Tour
- Empire State Building
- SkyScraper National Park
- View New York City from Atop a Skyscraper
- Flatiron Building tour
- NYC's Corporations and international corporate alumni
- Columbus Circle and Lincoln Center
- Intensive Lincoln Center Tour
- Tour the Time Warner Center (at Columbus Circle)
- Great Coffees of NYC
- The Dakota Aprtment Building
- NYC and Wars of Choice 1848-1862-1898
- Three Little Italies
- FAO Schwartz tour
- St. Patrick's Cathedral
- From Grand Central to Times Square
- Intensive Grand Central Tour
- Theatre Districts then and now
- Manhattan Broadway Tour
- Pastrami Tours - 'I'll have what she's having!'
- When Harry Met Sally Tour
- Maycy's
- Cornelius Vanderbilt's NYC
- Chelsea Market Tour
- Bagels, Brunch, and Bialys
- Manhattan's Geology and Ecology
- What's Next for NYC?
- Gospel Music at a Baptist Church
- John Lennon's NYC and Strawberry Fields
- Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs' NYC
- View the Statue of Liberty tour
- View Manhattan from Brooklyn
- Dylan, Hendrix, Warhol, and Ginsberg and the 60s in the Village
- Jewish NYC
- Andy Warhol, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionists, and 80s Art in NYC
- Walt Whitman's NYC and Brooklyn
- Brownstones, Mansions, and Luxury Apartments
- Literary and Poetic NYC with quotations and readings
- Hipster NYC then and now
- Speakeasies and Old Bars with history
- Emerging Artists and DJs
- Unique neighborhoods and economic districts - only in NYC!
- The SoHo District Tour
- Subway Tour