My wife and 12 year old son truly enjoyed our 2 hour walking tour around lower Manhattan with our Streetwise guide Patrick. Our flight was a little delayed arriving in NYC and Patrick was gracious and flexible about meeting us at our hotel in Midtown. We walked to Grand Central Station taking in a few notable buildings along the way and then rode the subway to Wall Street and then meandering through the lower east side neighborhoods. Patrick left us at Lomdardi's in Little Italy where we had some great pizza. Personally, I would have walked another hour or two listening to Patrick's stories about the history of New York, but my son doesn't yet have the stamina to walk that long. But even the 2-hour tour was packed with sights, sounds, and occasional smells (pleasant and not so pleasant) of NYC. Patrick was great! He engaged our son and my wife (both of whom aren't terribly interested in "museum stuff" or history) in conversation about all sorts of things - including NYC gossip, architecture, anarchists, and historical perspective. I highly recommending take a walking tour of NYC and using Streetwise. Everyone we interacted with, from booking our tour to Patrick (our guide), was professional and responsive!