Frank de Falco’s Walking New York City Tours

Both my full- and half- day public walking tour tours are strictly limited to 8 people max to create a more intimate, immersive and interactive traveler experience. All tours come with a money-back guarantee.

Full Day tours: Downtown, Midtown, Brooklyn and Harlem

My most requested walking tours are full-day itineraries – approximately 6 hours – geared to fully immerse travelers in the life, history, architecture, lifestyle trends and secrets of New York City.

Each tour covers multiple neighborhoods each one dramatically different from another to highlight the gorgeous mosaic that is New York City.

The itineraries are intended to give travelers a lay of the land with suggestions of how to navigate a city of 8.4 million people

I offer four full day tours: “Downtown,” “Midtown,” Brooklyn,” and “Harlem.”

Downtown Manhattan Tour

High Line City Park, New York
9/11 Memorial park in New York City, NY, USA

My most requested tour.

Many clients take this tour their first full day in New York to orient themselves geographically for the rest of their stay.

The itinerary covers a a wide variety of New York’s destination and historic neighborhoods including:

  • The Meatpacking District
  • Chelsea Market
  • The High Line
  • Little Island
  • The West Village
  • Greenwich Village
  • SoHo

Pricing

  • $115 for adults (18+), $85 (12-17 years)
  • No charge for children under 12 years of age.
  • 8 people max(usually less)
  • Also available as a private tour

Midtown Manhattan tour

My Midtown tour focuses on some of New York’s most famous must-see landmarks, Including:

  • Times Square Theater District and the birth of the modern musical
  • Hell’s Kitchen and Irish Street gangs
  • Bryant Park
  • New York Public Library
  • Grand Central Terminal
  • Chrysler Building and the Art Deco movement;
  • Rockefeller Center
  • St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the rise of the Irish in America

Pricing

  • $115 for adults (18+), $85 (12-17 years)
  • No charge for children under 12 years of age.
  • 8 people max(usually less)
  • Also available as a private tour

Harlem tour

Harlem's tour with Frank de Falco

We start with participating in an authentic Baptist Worship Service with Gospel choir at a church closely associated with Dr. Martin Luther KIng.

We then proceed with a walking tour covering the history of Harlem from its beginnings in the 1600’s right up to the present time.

What you’ll see and learn about:

  • Beginnings: Central Harlem as upscale suburb
  • East Harlem: New York’s original Little Italy
  • Jewish Harlem
  • The Harlem Renaissance
  • The Apollo Theater
  • Gentrification and the rise of a New Harlem

Pricing

  • $115 for adults (18+), $85 (12-17 years)
  • No charge for children under 12 years of age.
  • 8 people max (usually less)
  • Also available as a private tour

Brooklyn tour

Present-day Brooklyn is where the old meets the new to lay claim to being New York City’s “coolest” borough

What you’ll see and learn about:

  • When Brooklyn was America’s third largest city
  • Bushwick: Beer Barons and Street Artists
  • Williamsburg: from America’s Sugar supplier to Hipster capitol
  • Ride on the East River Ferry with views of the Manhattan and Brooklyn skyline
  • Brooklyn Heights: America’s first suburb
  • Dumbo, Jane’s Carousel, Empire stores, and Brooklyn Bridge Park: from industrial port to destination neighborhood
  • History of the Brooklyn Bridge as we walk across the bridge with explanation of what made it so iconic

Pricing

  • $115 for adults (18+), $85 (12-17 years)
  • No charge for children under 12 years of age.
  • 8 people max(usually less)
  • Also available as a private tour

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