NYCindyTours.com
This page covers walking public tours. Please contact Cindy for setting up a customized private tour that may better fit your needs. Tours can also be conducted by using other forms of transportation(bus, subway or private transportation). Please note that the public tour schedule is subject to change due to several private/customized tour requests.
PUBLIC TOURS
************************************************BIMONTHLY WALKS:
1) Midtown Madness -Fridays
Check -In Time 3:00PM (as tour starts promptly at 3:15PM)
Duration: Approximately 2-2.5 hours (My tours tend to run longer as they are interactive/not scripted as I welcome questions along the way)
Fee: $25 per Adult and Children under 12 are FREE
This is the tour where I start out by saying “this is not the area where most New “Yorkahs” live but the area where many New “Yorkahs” choose to play, eat and even work. Therefore, this tour covers: Grand Central Terminal, some landmark buildings where NYCindy has worked in (during her corporate days) and others still work in, Rockefeller Center, commuter center,), some major publishers’ NY headquarters and OK, we’ll even visit Time Square. At the end of the tour, I will direct you to a midtown art museum which happens to have “Target Free Fridays” (from 4:30PM up to 8:30ish)...
Location and Registration: Limited to 25 Adults so please email NYCindyTours@gmail.com ASAP with the desired number of guests and any other questions. Confirmation and location details will follow within 4- 20 hours of your email. You can also call 212-249-3663 to leave a message including your contact information. Thank You!!!
*RAINY days make this Tour even more fun as we enter and exit more"hushed hollows" beneath Midtown...We are constantly entering and exiting "Midtown Madness"***
2) Columbus and Beyond - Saturdays
Check -In Time 10:00AM (as tour starts promptly at 10:15AM)
Duration: Approximately 2-2.5 hours (My tours tend to run longer as they are interactive/not scripted as I welcome questions along the way)
Fee: $25 per Adult and Children under 12 are FREE
This tour covers Columbus Circle, Central Park(including Strawberry Fields), Lincoln Center and many historic buildings where I show you when , where and how to “read the buildings” . Since this is a usually weekend tour, I ensure that we end up in an area where I can direct you to several child friendly institutions...
Location and Registration: Limited to 25 Adults so please email NYCindyTours@gmail.com ASAP with the desired number of guests and any other questions. Confirmation and location details will follow within 4- 20 hours of your email. You can also call 212-249-3663 to leave a message including your contact information. Thank You!!!
**This tours involves a lot of in and out of buildings and scaffolding but in case of RAIN, please bring your rain gear as we do enter Central Park...
3) Hidden Harlem Walk- Saturdays
Check-In Time: 1:15PM (as tour starts promptly at 1:30PM)
Duration: 2-2.5 hours(Depending on the group size)
Fee: $25
Meeting Place: The IRT/1 Subway station at Broadway and 110th Street. We will meet at the Downtown side near the token booth. This walk covers popular tourists sites like Columbia University, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Grant's Tomb, and Riverside Church. What makes this tour HIDDEN Harlem? Depending on the tour's lenght we view several not so obvious things such as: hidden statues within statues, tributes and memorials to famous New Yorkers, historic buildings tucked away in very short avenues. Even the parks we cross have hidden jewels. We also walk by the building where a 2 term US President lived at when I was a CU student. On this tour, NYCindy tells you how different and how similar the neighborhood is from her college days spent in Harlem.
Location and Registration: Limited to 25 Adults so please email NYCindyTours@gmail.com ASAP with the desired number of guests and any other questions. Confirmation and location details will follow within 4- 20 hours of your email. You can also call 212-249-3663 to leave a message including your contact information. Thank You!
4)The High Line and It’s Surrounding “Hoods” -Wednesdays
Check -In Time 3:00PM (as tour starts promptly at 3:15PM)
Duration: Approximately 2-2.5 hours (My tours tend to run longer as the are interactive/not scripted as I welcome questions along the way).
Fee: $25 per Adult and Children under 12 are FREE. If you don’t like art or taking in memorable visuals,” FORGETTAH ABOUT IT” ( some other of my tours may better match your likes but really , who doesn’t like art?)... Besides The High Line art, this tour covers architecture and history of the neighboring “hoods” (New York Cindy’s contraction for “neighborhoods”). So now that you’re starting to read like a New Yorchah”, picture yourself walking through parts of the West Village with someone(i.e. NYCindy) showing you the building where Edward Hopper and his wife lived for 40 years. Incidentally, since I was present at the plaque dedication (held just a few weeks ago by by the Historic District Council), I can tell you all about that rainy day...In case you’re wondering, the other “hood” we visit is West Chelsea. In fact, the reason I conduct this tour on Thursday afternoons, is on Thursdays at 6PM the West Chelsea artists have their “art openings’. Towards the end of the tour, I will share my art opening invitation that is scheduled for this Thursday starting at 6PM. This allows you time to explore FIT’s museum as well as other Chelsea galleries. I will also leave you with some information on historic sites in the area you can also explore while your in the “hood”...
Location and Registration: Limited to 25 Adults so please email NYCindyTours@gmail.com ASAP with the desired number of guests and any other questions. Confirmation and location details will follow within 4- 20 hours of your email. You can also call 212-249-3663 to leave a message including your contact information. Thank You!!!
5) Fulton Center and Beyond in Downtown Manhattan-Wednesdays
Check -In Time Noon (as tour starts promptly at 12:15PM)
Duration: Approximately 2-2.5 hours (My tours tend to run longer as they are interactive/not scripted as I welcome questions along the way)
Fee: $25 per Adult and Children under 12 are FREE
We start out by the new Fulton Center where 9 subway lines connect.
We will then explore Downtown Manhattan where we will visit the 9/11 Memorial Park, Wall St.,Federal Hall as well as other historic sites where I'll be happy to relay their wonderful history.
This will be mostly an outdoor tour covering several historic sites with some very interesting new developments. We'll end up at "Hudson Eats", the moderately new priced food court at Brookfield Place(overlooking the the Hudson River). You can even bring your own snack as the place has public seating with great views. Also, I would encourage you to visit the FREE American Indian Museum in the former Alexander Hamilton Customs House prior to the tour.
Location and Registration: Limited to 25 Adults so please email NYCindyTours@gmail.com ASAP with the desired number of guests and any other questions. Confirmation and location details will follow within 4- 20 hours of your email. You can also call 212-249-3663 to leave a message including your contact information. Thank You!
OTHER POPULAR WALKS:
Park Walk from Spanish Harlem to Morningside Heights Tour - We start out at Duke Ellington Circle and end up at Grants Tomb.
This tour is fun for both adults as well as children. Besides visiting some educational and religious institutions, we walk through 4 parks and one garden and if we're lucky, some peacocks will appear!
Art Deco Architecture Tour -From 42nd St. and 6th Ave St. to Rockefeller Center . Since this tour includes the "hushed hollows" or the underground hidden parts of the NYPL, Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center, it serves as an escape from the outside world...
Midtown Art Walk - We visit several galleries on 57th Street as well as The Museum of Art And Design(MADD) and/or The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
Upper East Side Art Walk- We visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as several art galleries.
Historic Tour of Lower Manhattan - The starting point is City Hall Park, the midpoint is the NEW World Trade Center and the ending point is South Street Seaport (where you can visit the TKTS office which has less lines than the Times Square location)...