Custom NYC Tours

Custom NYC Tours I offer custom walking tours in NYC. Please contact me to arrange a tour or make inquiries! We make NYC memories!

We run small-group, customized walking tours for NYC visitors (or locals!) looking for something a little more personal.

Architectural details of the Empire State Building!This building is certainly not *as ornate* as the Chrysler Building, ...
06/13/2026

Architectural details of the Empire State Building!

This building is certainly not *as ornate* as the Chrysler Building, but is the perfect textbook Art Deco skyscraper. It is bold and expressive... but simultaneously with a streamlined, industrial design. Beautifully symmetrical, with classic NYC Deco vertical massing. And with gorgeous limestone masonry, and exterior metal elements made of steel or aluminum. And interior details showing off both the geometric and industrial inspirations for the Deco style.

Don't forget to look up in New York!

Views from the Empire State Building on a lovely June day:1. Looking at Midtown East. Prominent buildings visible here a...
06/12/2026

Views from the Empire State Building on a lovely June day:

1. Looking at Midtown East. Prominent buildings visible here are the new JPMorgan Chase Tower, One Vanderbilt, the MetLife Building, and the Chysler Building
2. Closeup of the top of the Chrysler Building
3. Looking north past Rockefeller Center + Billionaire's Row + Central Park, towards uptown and the Bronx.
4. Looking south toward the Flatiron Building, with its scaffolding coming down. On the left is the new in-progress residential tower that controversially blocks the previous view of Empire from the Flatiron.
5. Top of the Radiator Building (today: Bryant Park Hotel)
6. Looking west past Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, towards Hudson Yards, and then NJ.
7. Looking southeast past the Madison Square area, towards Brooklyn across the East River
8. Looking south toward the World Trade Center, the harbor, and State of Liberty.

Looking at New York from above never gets old!

06/09/2026

The French Air Force aerobatic team, Patrouille de France, conducted a major flyover in New York City this morning, as part of their “Liberté 250” tour celebrating American independence. 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

The flyover started near the West Point military academy in the lower Hudson Valley, and then came down the river into the New York Harbor, ending by passing over the Statue of Liberty, an enduring symbol of the relationship between the United States and France. 🗽

A wonderful start to the coming America250 celebrations that will be hosted here, in our nation’s first capitol.

NYC in the past week. 🗽
06/09/2026

NYC in the past week. 🗽

Another round of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews!
06/08/2026

Another round of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews!

The NY Transit Museums turns 50 this year, and among the celebrations this Summer was today's "Parade of Trains" on the ...
06/07/2026

The NY Transit Museums turns 50 this year, and among the celebrations this Summer was today's "Parade of Trains" on the Brighton line in Brooklyn. A selection of historic trains ran as an express shuttle between Kings Highway and Brighton Beach. The event cost nothing beyond your basic subway fare.

In total, they had 3 trains running today--
-- BRT "BU" cars:
BU (derived from the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad) cars is the generic term for BRT elevated gate cars used on predecessor lines of the New York City Subway system. Old-school wood construction. This one dated to 1907.
-- BRT/BMT Standard:
The first class of all-steel, wide-body subway cars introduced for service by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) and its successor, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT). Introduced in 1915.
-- BMT D-Type Triplex:
Introduced in 1925, it was the first articulated open-gangway rapid transit train in North America.

Just south of Brighton Beach, two other historic trains were, including an IND Depression-era R1/9 "Arnine" train, and a BMT "Redbird" train.

Photos in this post:
1. BU gate train arriving to Brighton Beach
2. BU train and the BMT Triplex, parked at Brighton Beach
3. A look inside the BU car
4. Conductor compartment on the BU
5. Go Knicks!
6. Space in between cars on the BU
7. Vintage ads on the BU
8. View from the front of the BU, heading toward Brighton Beach, passing a BMT Standard train
9. IND R1/9 and BMT Redbird parked, with Coney Island parachute jump in the distance
10. BMT Standard arriving at Brighton Beach
11. Cosplay is a big part of the Parade of Trains!
12. Details on the BMT Standard
13. Inside BMT Standard
14. BMT Triplex at Kings Highway
15. Interior of BMT Triplex
16-17. Vintage ads

Thanks to the Transit Museum for a wonderful afternoon!

06/07/2026

Parade of Trains, in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Union gate train from 1907 arriving to Brighton Beach station.

06/06/2026

Effective Summer 2026, our Art Deco Midtown architecture tour remains our only public tour, and is available Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10am. And also available by request as a private tour at other times.

We also have schedules for the following private tours:
1. Thoroughly Modern Midtown:
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays at 10am.
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 2pm.

2. Central Park:
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays at 10am.
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 2pm.

3. Lower East Side Street Art:
Mondays-Sundays at 2pm.
Sundays also at 10am.

And many other tours available by private request.
(High Line & Hudson Yards, Victorian Flatbush, Greenwich Village, Downtown Deco, and more!)

We look forward to seeing you on tour soon!

Another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for our Art Deco tour!
05/31/2026

Another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for our Art Deco tour!

NYC skyline views, from Jersey City.
05/31/2026

NYC skyline views, from Jersey City.

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