The tours
The park and the museums
Central Park, the Met, and the Natural History Museum and for once, someone to explain what you're actually looking at.
On a fine day, the park comes first: 843 acres of engineered landscape with a demolished community underneath it, an Egyptian obelisk older than the Roman Empire, and sheep that used to live in what is now a restaurant. On a rainy day, the museums. Either way, Alex ties it into a single argument that makes each stop feel like a continuation of the last.
3h30 — Upper East Side to Upper West Side — $84 per person
Queens Then & Now
The best view of the Manhattan skyline is from Queens. Most tourists never find it.
Long Island City is where Nas grew up, where Silvercup Studios has been quietly producing American pop culture for decades, and where a neighborhood is changing fast enough to watch in real time. Three hours in the most underrated corner of New York.
3 hours — Long Island City, Queens — $75 per person
Queer New York in the 20th and 21st centuries
New York's queer history is not a single story. It's dozens of stories running in parallel across a century, mostly invisible to the people walking the same streets above ground.
This tour moves from Midtown to the Stonewall Inn through a century of queer nightlife, art, grief, and resistance. Told through the specific streets and buildings where it actually happened, by someone who grew up among them.
4 hours — Midtown to Greenwich Village — $88 per person
Riots in New York
New York has always been loud. But sometimes, it's been explosive.
From the colonists who toppled a king's statue to the drag queens who took on a police raid and changed the law, this tour moves through the riots, rebellions, and moments of defiance that made the city. Starting at Bowling Green, ending at Stonewall.
4h — Lower Manhattan to Greenwich Village — $88 per person