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Manhattan Neighborhood Private Customized Walking Tour

Manhattan Neighborhood Private Customized Walking Tour

Overview

Take advantage of an experienced New York guide to customize your private tour of Manhattan neighborhoods.

First time travelers may use this tour as a way to orientate themselves and as a starting point to later visit sites and neighborhoods on their own with the advice of the guide. Or for those who wish to dig deeper, get an in depth look into classic neighborhoods or become experts on New York architecture.

Either way these tours aim to give personalized, unique New York experiences. Meaning we can focus on many aspects of New York, history, food, culture, architecture, art and design. Just let us know and we can adapt to give you the tour you want!

City: New York City

Sat 19 Oct

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Starting at $64.00

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Sat 19 Oct

Starting at $64.00

Make a reservation

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What's Included

All Fees and Taxes

Tour includes Professional Guide.

Additional Info

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Wheelchair accessible

What To Expect

Streetwise New York Tours

We've been a top 10 ranked company on Tripadvisor for the past 7 years. Reach out to us to customize your tour of Manhattan or other areas.

Greenwich Village

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit Greenwich Village, a beautiful and culturally important neighborhood

SoHo

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit Soho, a fashionable neighborhood with Cast Iron architecture.

Chinatown

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit Chinatown, a neighborhood with 160 years of history and the center of the largest Chinese community outside of Asia.

Lower East Side

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit the Lower East Side, historically an immigrant neighborhood that has become fashionable with galleries, boutiques, restaurants and night life.

The High Line

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit the High Line, abandoned tracks turned modern park on Manhattan's westside.

Little Italy

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit Little Italy, a three block stretch that survives of what was an Italian community of 100,000.

Central Park

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit Central Park.

Chelsea Market

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit the Chelsea Market, the former Nabisco Factory turned market and culinary destination

Midtown

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to walk through Midtown with Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central, Bryant Park, New York Public Library and more.

Financial District

This tour is customized but it is very common that groups choose to visit the Financial District with Wall Street and the World Trade Center among other sites.

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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (383)

Laurie355

May 2011

If you want to spend a terrific day learning about NYC and eating unusual food check out this walking tour - Streetwise New York. Even though I am a native New Yorker I learned a tremendous amount about Chinatown, The Lower East Side and parts of Queen that I never knew. Best of all, I had a great time ....although it was 5 hours long I actually was sad when it ended. The guide was extremely knowledgeable and had a great grasp of history, architecture and the immigrant experience. A great day - highly recommend it - just wear a good pair of sneakers and come hungry!

zgonen

Apr 2011

I have lived in the United States for 6 years, mostly in upstate New York. I visited New York and saw different sights and neighborhoods. This tour of the city which I somehow knew put the city in a new perspective for me. This perspective is about the city as migrant city. Our guide, Andy, took us through the city following the doings and daily public lives of migrants, both in the past and present. The tour showed us political, social and economic life still visible in the streets, buildings and people of New York. The perspective of the past in the present we have walked opened a new dimension to us. From East Village to Queens we followed the migrants in their movements, in the places they shopped, in the buildings they worked and lived. We saw the uncanny changes: For instance, Jewish progressive newspaper, Forward, with its alliance with the working classes is now turned into luxury condos, where America Ferrera lives, showing how gentrification pushes the working class migrant communities out. Then we went to Queens to look at the history from the perspective of the present. We saw the new migrant neighborhoods, from diverse corners of the world. It is like witnessing the history in the making as the guide leads us through the streets of this new migrant space. Migrants are the working classes of New York. This has always been that way. This tour bares the real stories of the real people of New York. It is like reading a book, and the guide reads the city for you, shows you its real people, walks you through a social history from below. This is about not the spectacular monuments, and the riches of New York that you would generally get in a tour. It is about the corners of conflict, of exchange, of struggle, and of gathering that everyday people made and continue to make. I highly recommend it for the curious strangers to this city.

travacala

Apr 2011

I definitely recommend Streetwise New York for tours, especially if you want to learn about the history and neighborhoods of all the diverse groups in New York. I got a customize night tour, around Corona in Queens, that showed how this area has change according to the different new comers from around the world. We stop at a italian spumoni ice cream shop, and afterwads enjoy a game of the Italian Bocce played at the park.