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High Line and Chelsea Market 3 Hour Private Tour

Fantastic views, fabulous food, and incredible architecture await you on this private tour of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and Meatpacking District! We’ll start with an overview – literally – of Chelsea high above on New York City’s High Line. Atop this former elevated railway, enjoy views of the Hudson River and hear the story of its redevelopment as a park. From here, our New York City walking tour enters the Chelsea Market, known for its diverse culinary offerings. With everything from artisan cheese to authentic Italian gelato, you might need to ask your guide for their top picks! After our Chelsea Market tour segment, we’ll head to the Meatpacking District, a once-industrial warehouse district turned hip commercial area. Dip in and out of the spacious shops hinting at their former lives as slaughterhouses, or, following your tour, visit the world-renowned Whitney Museum of American Art and take a short walk to one of NYC’s most unusual river attractions, Little Island!
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From $320
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Brooklyn Dyker Heights Christmas Wonderland Bus Tour

If you're looking for something to do in New York City during this holiday season make sure you put this on your list! It's cheery, it's bright, it’s Christmas, it's NYC, it's everything Christmas about Christmas! This Brooklyn neighborhood, looks like it is out of this world during Christmas time. Dyker Heights Christmas Lights is the cutest and most spectacular area of houses decorated for the holiday season. It's blocks and blocks of Christmas lights and fantastic decorations. The neighborhood goes all out with beautiful nativity displays, nutcrackers, inflatable santas, lights and more.The place glows with bright lights, buzzes sound, and literally bumps with holiday music on full blast. It's fun to see how some houses mix it up every year. It is a recommended experience and a perfect night out for families, groups of friends and even a date night! This is a great place to go if you enjoy taking pictures, as there are a lot of photo opportunities!
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From $60
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Dyker Heights Brooklyn Christmas Lights Tour

Christmas in New York City becomes a dazzling spectacle of holiday lights. Visit the neighborhoods of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, where it's a holiday tradition to decorate house after house with thousands of lights, toy soldiers, Santa Claus with his reindeer and more. It is amazing! Coming back to Manhattan, you'll see the Manhattan skyline and Christmas displays. This tour will put you and your family in the holiday spirit!
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From $60
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High Line, Greenwich Village Food, and Historical Downtown Tour

You'll experience our High Line Walking Tour, Greenwich Village Food Tour, and Historic Downtown Tour to create one amazing experience. This 5.5-hour tour first covers the High Line, an elevated railway line that has been turned into a beautiful park and has helped transform the whole west side of Manhattan. Next onto the food tour! Stroll the brownstone lined streets of Greenwich Village and see why artists, writers, & musicians have continuously flocked to this part of NYC. You will be treated to a variety of foods that are chosen to compliment your NYC experience. From the best pizza to an old-school butcher shop, this is one lunch you will never forget. Walk off all that food on this fascinating tour that takes you past some of NYC's most important institutions. This area is the birthplace of NYC, and your guide will share their immense knowledge of how it emerged from a Dutch fur-trading outpost and colonial stronghold, to a land of towering skyscrapers and glittering lights.
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From $169
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Harlem and Gospel Tour with Transportation on Sundays

We invite you to attend a gospel Mass service on a lovely Sunday in Harlem. We’ll discover historic Harlem from every angle on this one-of-a-kind tour. Your guide will share fascinating anecdotes about this culturally rich Manhattan neighborhood that was home to such great African American figures as Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, W. E. B. Du Bois, Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and Malcolm X. Take this fun bus tour of Harlem to gain a deep understanding of the neighborhood and its magnificent architecture and rich history. We’ll pass by iconic landmarks. We’ll then enter one of the multitudes of churches with lively congregations that are vital to the community. You’ll be welcomed by a choir and submerged in the energy and fervor that emanates from their powerful songs. When all the voices of the gospel choir come together, something beautiful and transcendent happens. We will need to take into consideration 1 hour travel time total.
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From $79
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Private Scenic Central Park Walking Tour

During this scenic and informative private group tour, you and your party will stroll through New York’s masterpiece of landscape design and escape Manhattan’s noisy grid. Highlights include the Mall, Bethesda Terrace, Strawberry Fields, Imagine Memorial and more. You’ll discover what makes Central Park the most visited park in America. Along the way you’ll enjoy terrific photo opportunities, see many famous sights, and uncover some secrets as well. You’ll leave with a great appreciation for the park and the city around it and photos to cherish.
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From $328.67
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Electric Bike Tour of Manhattan and the Waterfront Greenway

Experience the very first electric bike tour in New York City! This tour packs in a ton of views of downtown Manhattan and the West Side with less pedaling. E-bikes are the hot new trend in cycling; experience what all the hype is about while sightseeing in NYC.
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From $103.43
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Architectural Tour of Midtown Manhattans Classic Landmarks

Join our team on a guided walking tour through vibrant Midtown Manhattan for quintessential New York City! Art Deco, Beaux-Art, & International Style architecture await along its picturesque avenues and streets. The neighborhood is a treasure of clustered renowned landmarks with astonishing histories, pioneering styles and enduring impact on the life of the city.
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New York Private Walking Food Tour With Secret Food Tours

We eat our way through the charming, iconic and extremely delicious neighborhood of Greenwich Village. As we walk and eat you will see vestiges of the original Dutch settlement and early British influences still visible today. Your three-hour tour will unlock secret food havens nestled throughout this beautiful enclave and you will discover the hidden history found around every corner. As we take a stroll back through time, we will uncover the origins of some of New York's quintessential foods and how they have evolved into the delicious morsels we will indulge in today. In addition, as with all of our tours, there is our Secret Dish, which will be revealed on the day of your tour. As a private tour, everything works around you! Our start times are much more easy going, dates can open up. It's a much more intimate and cozy experience. No need to shout over other tourists, you will have every question answered, and leave feeling like a native yourself!
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From $306
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9/11 Memorial Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island - 1st tour 8:30am

Beat the crowds on an early access tour of New York's famous landmarks. After meeting up with your guide at 8:30am, you will be well on your way to experiencing the 9/11 Memorial, Wall Street, Battery Park, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Tickets Include: Priority entry into the Screening Facility Queue saves you wait time at the departure point. Round trip ferry service to Liberty Island (grounds of the Statue of Liberty) and Ellis Island (Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration) Access to the grounds of Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Statue of Liberty Museum includes three interactive galleries that tell the Statue of Liberty National Monument history. Audio Tours of Liberty and Ellis Island are included in Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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From $49.99
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Highlights of New York City Guided Bike Tour (English or Dutch)

New York City arguably has more great sights per mile than anywhere else in the world, so why not make the absolute most of it with a 3-hour, 9-mile bike adventure through the city that never sleeps? Your guide, a highly-rated, professionally-licensed New York City tour guide, will take you on one of the most exciting rides of your life. Starting right by the Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan side, the tour takes you to Battery Park, Little Italy, and Chinatown before riding up to Washington Square Park. From there, our guide will take you along the Hudson Greenway. See where Sully Sullenberger famously landed a plane on the Hudson. You will view the newly constructed Vessel and Highline, then bike toward Times Square, Madison Square Garden, and the Empire State Building!
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From $81.66
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NYC Electric Bike Tour

We offer the very first electric bike tours in NYC! You won't believe how much you get to see from Central Park to Midtown to the Hudson Greenway. Join us as we explore Classic Manhattan on our pedal assist eBikes. You won’t stop grinning from the exhilaration of this pedal assist bike tour.
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See Details → Duration :330 to 4 hours
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Ellis Island & Statue of Liberty Tour - 8:30am First Tour

Ellis Island was the Gateway to America, and on this tour you will learn more about the journey and the struggle for a new future and a better tomorrow. The site of the Statue of Liberty brought hope of freedom and peace.
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From $79.99
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Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island

One of the top ranked Statue experiences in NYC. YES Tours NYC offers tours of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island that cover an array of NYC topics and views, but focus on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. All guides have family that came through Ellis Island, and offer expert stories, memories and narration.   This tour includes a visit to Liberty Island, a visit to Ellis Island, a top ranked guide and a custom photo shoot.  Leaves from Battery Park. Most guests want to eat lunch or explore family history on Ellis Island so we recommend leaving time between this tour and your next activity
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From $195
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Semi-Private Secondhand + Vintage Fashion Tour in New York City

Experience 3 - 3.5 hrs of guided second-hand shopping in New York City with a shopping expert! New York is a fashion forward city, known for its stellar vintage shopping, but with so many great stores, it's easy to miss the city's best. After a friendly, your guide leads you to to 4+ different second-hand shops, with time to try on, and sends you off with a store map so you can keep shopping like a local. • Enjoy your guide's personal attention on this semi-private tour, capped at 4 shoppers • Shop unique vintage + resale fashion (size 0 - 10) at bargain prices • 30 minutes at each location with a personal shopper • Receive a complimentary mapped listing with more than 120 stores • Hassle free meet-up location in Manhattan • This shopping tour is available as a private option with flexible dates + start times when booking all 4 spots, and bring 5 people! **IMPORTANT** For TEEN + YOUNG ADULT shopping, please see ZTrend's "Teen + Young Adult tour.
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See Details → Duration :3 to 3 hours 30 minutes
From $98