Incorporated in 1991, Big Onion Walking Tours escorts both visitors and New York residents on walking tours through historic districts and ethnic neighborhoods of New York City. Big Onion Walking Tours has won a number of awards, including Best of the Best by Our Town and Best Walking Tour in New York City by New York Magazine. Big Onion Walking Tours offers a number of different walking experiences. The Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights Tour begins with the impressive story of how the bridge was built and moves on to discuss the rich architecture of the Heights. Other tours include the Official Gangs of New York Tour, the Gay and Lesbian History Tour, the Original Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour and the Ellis Island Group Tour. Big Onion Walking Tours offers a prepaid discount card for their "show-up" tours. Once you have paid for the first five tours, the sixth is offered as complimentary.
Big Onion Walking Tours
476 13th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
888-606-9255
bigonion.com
Alfred Pommer offers 21 cultural walking tours of New York. His five most popular are the Midtown Architectural Walking Tour, the Gargoyles in Manhattan Walking Tour, the Upper East Side Millionaires' Mile Walking Tour, the Little Italy Walking Tour and the Lower East Side Jewish Heritage Walking Tour. Alfred Pommer can be contacted by phone or e-mail to arrange tours, after which participants meet up with him at a designated street in the city.
Alfred Pommer
212-979-2388
nycwalk.com
Established by licensed New York City tour guide Paul Blair in 2001, SwingStreets offers walking tours to discover the best that New York has to offer. SwingStreets tours have special appeal for music lovers, urban scholars, cultural historians and architecture buffs. SwingStreets offers the Harlem Jazz Walk, the Bountiful Brooklyn Tour, the Mad-About-Manhattan Tour and the United-Nations-of-Queens Tour. Bookings are made through Zerve, a service that connects buyers and sellers.
SwingStreets
212-209-3370
800-979-3370
swingstreets.com
