New York City

Tour Description
Salute the past and the future! With a licensed NYC tour guide, visit the single most historic area in the United States. Pay tribute to this great nation as you learn the rich and exciting history of NYC and America. Walk on the floor of Ground Zero, the 16-acre site of unparalleled heroism. This moving and educational 3-hour tour guides you through lower Manhattan where you will also see such icons as Wall Street, the Woolworth Building, and a virtual Skyscraper Museum.

This acclaimed tour has been featured on CNN, Fox News, and TV Tokyo, and has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, London Times, World Affairs Weekly, USA Today and the New York Post.

All tours last approximately 3 hours (9am until 12 noon) and depart from Paramount Plaza, 51st and Broadway in front of Cosi's Restaurant. All tours end in Lower Manhattan. Tours operate rain or shine.

Tour Itinerary
A licensed New York City tour guide will meet you at a convenient midtown Manhattan location (Paramount Plaza, 51st and Broadway in front of Cosi's Restaurant) and escort you to lower Manhattan on the subway. There you will begin a guided 3-hour walking tour and visit some of the newest, oldest and most memorable sites in New York City. Some highlights include:

Ground Zero, where you will stand on the actual floor of the World Trade Center
Witnessing the progress of the World Trade Center rebuilding efforts
The Winter Garden, with its unparalleled view of the "Footprints" of the former Twin Towers
The Bronze FDNY 9-11 Memorial Wall, a 56-foot long bronze sculpture that shows firefighters battling the smoldering towers, located on the side of New York City's famed fire station "10 House," the former Reily Hose No. 10 firehouse
The NYC Police Memorial at the World Financial Center, a moving tribute to all NYC police officers who have been lost in the line of duty

Moving tributes to September 11th victims and heroes at St. Paul's Chapel, New York's only surviving pre-Revolutionary church, and Trinity Church, where Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton are buried
The Neo-Gothic Woolworth Building, the world's tallest building from 1913-1929 200-year old City Hall
A walk down narrow Wall Street, past the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall National Memorial, where you can see the scars of the 1920 terrorist attack on the JP Morgan Building.

Tour Description
Enjoy a full day 8.5 hour guided motorcoach tour including a harbor cruise, lunch and United Nations Tour. Accompanied by a professional tour guide, see all of Manhattan from Uptown to Downtown - the new Times Square, Madison Square Garden, the Flatiron building, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Little Italy and Battery Park, where you will board a ferry for a one-hour cruise with close-up views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the Brooklyn Bridge. Resume tour at Battery Park driving up to Central Park, the Cathedral St. John the Divine, Grant's Tomb, Harlem, the Museum Mile, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center and more. Includes buffet lunch, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Cruise, and admission to the United Nations Tour (Empire State Building admission instead of United Nations Tour on Saturday and Sunday in January and February).

Tour Description
The Statue of Liberty is more than a monument - she is a beloved friend, and a living symbol of freedom to the world. Ellis Island is the historic gateway to America, where millions of immigrants passed through between 1892 and 1955. No trip to New York City is complete without visiting the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

The absolute easiest way for you to visit Lady Liberty is on this escorted and guided tour departing from a convenient midtown Manhattan location. Our guide will take you to Battery Park on the subway where you'll board the ferry to Liberty Island. You'll learn about the Statue of Liberty's symbolism, history, construction and restoration as you gaze up at her serene face, soaring torch and 7-pointed halo honoring the seven seas and seven continents. You'll receive a special reserved Monument Access Pass allowing you entry into the Statue of Liberty at a pre-reserved time -- the only way that you can actually get inside the Statue! You will be able to view inside the Statue through a glass ceiling, and walk out onto the Statue's observation deck to see the panoramic views of the New York City skyline and harbor.

Then you'll have to opportunity to visit Ellis Island. You'll learn about the immigrants' trials and triumphs. You'll walk, as so many new Americans did, through the entry process. See artifacts and photographs of this famous destination, this doorway of hope, Ellis Island. Trace your own ancestors' first steps at the American Museum of Family Immigration database. You can even get a picture of the very ship on which your ancestors arrived, along with a copy of the manifest. Ellis Island is a genuine American adventure rich with family treasures.

You may tour Ellis Island, where you can enjoy its splendors at your own pace or return to Battery Park. Our guide will assist you in returning to midtown, or will suggest other places of interest in Lower Manhattan.

Tour Itinerary
A licensed New York City tour guide will meet you at a convenient midtown Manhattan location (Paramount Plaza, 51st and Broadway in front of Cosi's Restaurant) and escort you to lower Manhattan on the subway. The tour guide will direct you onto the Statue of Liberty Ferry and teach you about:

The New York City subway
Battery Park
Castle Clinton
Liberty Island Ferry
New York Harbor
Liberty Island
Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island
And so much more!

Tour Description
Start your Saturday with an early morning stroll through the heart of America's first planned public space and National Landmark - Central Park! A great introduction to park spaces you know from movies, as well as an exploration of hidden places that New Yorkers rarely see. Narrated and escorted by an experienced and licensed New York City tour guide and Central Park expert. Approximately 2.5 hours.

A licensed New York City tour guide will meet you at a convenient midtown Manhattan location (Paramount Plaza, 51st and Broadway in front of Cosi's Restaurant) and escort you on the subway to the Upper West Side.

Exiting the subway near The Dakota, you will enter the Park and visit Strawberry Fields, Yoko Ono's tribute to her late husband John Lennon. The single word "IMAGINE" in the black-and-white mosaic pathway, the title of a popular Lennon song, is the only specific tribute to the musician within the beautifully maintained yet naturalistic landscape. Continue to stroll along the bridal paths and park walkways to the statue of Daniel Webster, presented to the City over 130 years ago, and your first view of the lake and Bow Bridge, one of the most handsomely designed cast-iron bridges in the world. Then you'll visit The Ramble, a 38-acre "wild garden" with rocky outcrops, secluded glades, and a tumbling stream called The Gill. Learn why The Ramble was such an important feature in the initial design of the Park in the 1850s, and why it has become a center of birding activity. Other interesting sites that you'll visit are Belvedere Castle, Shakespeare Garden, Delacorte Theater, the Great Lawn and Bethesda Terrace, the architectural "heart of the Park," with its Bethesda Fountain, Terrace Arcade and magnificent views.

Your tour guide will tell you about the Park's history, why it is such an integral part of daily life and maybe even let you catch a glimpse of it's most famous residents, the family of Pale Male!

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Join us on a Sunday morning in the Black capital of the world and learn about Harlem, it's start as a rural Dutch community, it's transformation into a summer retreat for New York's most prominent families, how it then became a Mecca for African American writers and artists at the turn of the century, to it's troubled past during the 1960's and 1970's and it's present day community brimming with pride and reveling in it's new renaissance.

Explore legendary Harlem with tour guides intimately familiar with this splendid neighborhood. This tour will take you through the rich and diverse Harlem, from the grand row houses of Striver's Row to the cobblestone streets of Sylvan Terrace. See Sugar Hill, where famous musicians like Duke Ellington once lived, and go past some of its famous landmarks - the Apollo Theater, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Then, join a local congregation for the Sunday worship service and experience the soul stirring power of gospel music. Afterwards, enjoy a delicious soul food gospel brunch. Includes tour, live gospel show, and meal.
Proper attire is required for all Harlem Gospel tours (no shorts, halter-tops or T-shirts).

Buy premium tickets for every Broadway show.

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Shop quaint NoLita and bustling SoHo, NYC's hottest shopping neighborhoods, where celebrities like Julia Roberts and Scarlett Johansson get their style. Highlights include trendy shopping, the architecture of the Cast Iron Historic District, unique boutiques, neighborhood trivia and celebrity gossip. This guided tour is recommended for visitors of all ages who want to experience NYC like a native, get exclusive discounts and taste local treats. Great shopping and window-shopping in New York's hippest neighborhoods! Highlights of this two hour tour include: the hidden gems of both SoHo and NoLita, boutiques frequented by celebs, stylists and fashion insiders, NY's secret trend-launching stores, a one-of-a-kind food shop, and photo opportunities of Cast Iron Architecture.

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See where this hit show was shot on a bus tour through Sopranoland. Take a peek inside Bada Bing's and Satriales, Tony's pork store hangout. Sit on the steps of the diner where Chris was shot. Go on location to the high school where A.J. dumped pizza boxes into the pool. See Pizzaland, the Muffler Man, and other sites from the opening credits. Enjoy a cannoli while listening to behind-the-scenes info on The Sopranos.

Small screen, silver screen and live theater - New York is the Entertainment Capital of the World! An NBC Page will be your guide to the world of the Peacock Network on the NBC Studios Tour, an historic behind the scenes tour that takes you through the halls and into the studios of NBC's New York operations. Then sit back and enjoy On Location's TV and Movie Sites Tour that takes TV and movie lovers past some of the most famous places they've seen on screen. In the evening, dine at the famed Broadway restaurant Sardi's before attending a show of your choice on the Great White Way.
Your Entertaining New York Vacation Includes:

Accommodations for 2-nights or longer at your choice of over 25 hotels in the heart of the famed Theatre District, Times Square and Rockefeller Center

Tickets to your choice of a hit Broadway show like The Phantom of the Opera.

Pre-reserved NBC Studios Tour

Pre-reserved On Location Tour's TV and Movie Sites Tour

Dinner at the famous Broadway-area restaurant Sardi's, tax and gratuity included

And much more

Air transportation not included.