Manhattan Walking Tour

Two friends and I did the walking tour with Alex — Greenwich Village and Historic Downtown. We enjoyed ourselves tremendously. We learned a lot about the city and enjoyed all the goodies we ate, pizza, chocolate, cannoli, grilled cheese, and cream cheese balls. We loved the small group setting. Just seven people on the first leg of the tour. The last half of the tour was private. Alex was nice enough to put us on the subway to make sure we got home safely. We plan on doing more tours with Alex. The High Line and Hell’s Kitchen. Thanks so much for a great day! We’ll be back!

Alex was our tour guide for Times Square, Hell’s Kitchen and Central Park. He was so enthusiastic to tell us about the history of New York despite the heat outside. He was very energetic snd informative about so many amazing things about New York City! His perspective, the food, his passion for the city really showed. I learned and experienced so much. It was an absolutely great experience and I will be doing it again when we go back! I highly recommend Manhattan Walking Tours especially if you enjoy history, food and sightseeing! It’s a must do. Highly recommended!!!

Had a fantastic tour of The High Line/​Greenwich with Garry as our guide. Food was fantastic and learned a lot about the cities history. Loved all the extra information thrown in and personalized touches. Highly recommend this tour to locals and out of towners alike. I definitely want to go on it again.

Great day! Many thanks to Garry for a very informative and yummy experience! I am forever spoiled as the bar has been raised for awesome pizza and other goodies! The High Line and Greenwich Village tour was a great way to see this part of NYC. We will be back for more so Garry can give us some more neighborhood secrets. Fun times!

We took the Central Park/Hell’s Kitchen/​Central Park Tour and Nancy was fabulous! We learned so much and visited places we would have never ventured to on our own. Well worth the price! Thanks, Nancy!

We try to take a walking tour every time we come to Manhattan, and this was by far our favorite. Part of the reason was the location, the biggest part was the guide, Alex. He took us on a lovely stroll down the highline with a fabulous narrative about the history and character of the Highline and surrounding neighborhoods. Alex is a native with a true love for the city, which is contagious. The food tour was charming. Enough small bites along the way that you’ll be glad you got some exercise in first. Thank you, Alex. We will definitely book directly with this company in the future!

We took the High Line and Greenwich Village walking tours led by Nancy. Warning. Don’t eat before the Greenwich Village walking tour! Nancy’s connections among local candy/​bakery/​pizza/​dessert outlets will have you stuffed by Washington Square. The High Line tour is a history lesson from a par of New York you’re probably not familiar with, but Nancy is a great history teacher! Knowledgable and outgoing we found the tours absolutely delightful. Thanks for spending the time with us!

If you like walking and love learning new things, this is your tour. We chose the Highline/​Greenwich/​Downtown Manhattan Combo, and were so glad we did. This tour was on our list of favorite things we did in NYC. Alex was our guide, and it was clear that he was not only knowledgeable, but that he loved NY. His enthusiasm was contagious! He began sharing information as soon as we began walking, and it was non-​stop (in a good way) from there. We learned so much, and had fun doing it. Will choose this company again if we get back to NY.

Great tour as others have mentioned. We did combo Highline and Greenwich Village tour. Alex was a great guide, food was a good sampling and plentiful. Highly recommend this tour company.

My daughter (18 years old) and I had a spectacular time as we toured the High line and Greenwich Village food tour. Our guide was Alex and he made the trip! He is incredibly knowledgable, thoughtful, and fun. He gave us facts that were interesting, and had answers for all of our questions. Alex also told us to contact him anytime with questions and recommendations, which we did the next day in Chinatown. We had the best soup dumplings! The food on the tour was wonderful and we left fat and happy.
We’ve been to NYC several times before and just wandered around. This was the best trip we’ve had. Will definitely use Manhattan Walking Tour on our next trip.

Absolutely the most fun! Even in the depth of a blizzard, Alex did his best to make our trip to NYC the best it could be! They were super accommodating in trying to work the tour around the weather issues. Highly recommend! Small groups, personal service. Alex even gave us shopping tips for snow boots! Book a tour, you will not be disappointed!

I had the pleasure of meeting Garry on one of his walking tours. He was very personable and a pleasure to converse with. He was at one of my favorite pizza places in the city and was giving a great background of the establishment to the people on his tour. Call Garry up for your next walking tour of the NYC!
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My son and I took this combination tour and had a great experience. We found it to be informative but in a fun way. Our guide, Nancy Paris, was like a friend showing us around town. She shared interesting facts and insight. My son is 15 and he had a good time and didn’t get bored as teenagers sometimes do. We will definitely take other tours on future visits.

My wife and I were referred to the Manhattan Walking Tour from a friend of ours that lives in Manhattan, so we felt like this was a good option especially being from a local.
Our guide was Alex and he was great. Incredibly knowledge about Manhattan and very enjoyable to listen to and be around.
We saw other tours while we were on ours and we were happy that Manhattan Walking Tour limits their tours to 8 people. We saw tours with incredibly large groups of people. We enjoyed our smaller group and the attention that we received.
My wife and I watched and read as much as we could about NYC before our trip and it was great to tour with Alex and have him go into more depth than what was available in our research. The food on the Greenwich food tour was delicious! Chocolate, bagels, pizza, sandwiches, egg cremes, and more. We are so happy that we booked the tour and wished that we had more time to do their other tours.
Alex even provided us with additional information on what to check out for the remainder of our NYC.
We will be recommending Manhattan Walking Tour to any of our friends or family that plan to visit NYC.
Visited September 2015

My boyfriend and I did the Hell’s Kitchen and Central Park combo tour today with Garry. SO MUCH FUN! I loved all the restaurants and all the food options, plus we were both VERY full by the end of the tour, especially after devouring that donut/​ice cream dessert. It was only us and another 2 women on the tour, so it was always easy to hear and be a part of the conversation. I was having so much fun that I forgot my purse at one of the restaurants, and the intern ran back and got it for me! (Thank God it was there, and yes, I struggle.) I would definitely recommend touring with Garry, especially in Hell’s Kitchen — that food cannot be beat!

Our family went on the High Line /​Greenwich food tour on July 4^th. There are many similar companies providing similar services but we prefer a smaller group. The fact that they only take 8 people on each tour sounds very attractive for us. So glad we did this tour. Garry was a great guide and a pleasant company. We dragged our 11 years old daughter and she was not happy about this in the beginning. It turned out she had a great time on this tour. Garry even included a stop at a local chocolate shop just for her. Garry is a great story teller with lots of knowledge and sense of humor. The fun facts, rich history and great foods of both the high line park and Greenwich definitely make our New York trip memorable. The fact that there are a couple New Yorkers on our tour based on other New Yorkers recommendations tells you the quality of this tour. Wish we had time to do the Hell’s Kitchen tour. That’s on our list when we return to this great city.

My wife, daughter and I did the High Line and Greenwich Village Food Tours with Gary this morning and had a great time. He was funny, knowledgable and very friendly. On the High Line portion of the tour, he was full of personal anecdotes about what the area was like in the past versus its rapidly gentrifying present. The Greenwich Village Food Tour was also full of details about the history and architecture of the neighborhood besides information about its foodie present. Chocolate, egg cremes, pizza, grilled cheese and cannolis kept us fortified. Very well done and informative tours. Gary certainly deserves five stars.

Garry led an awesome, delicious, entertaining tour of Hell’s Kitchen. We tried some restaurants I would have, as a NYer, never tried on my own– and they were great!
I would definitely recommend their tours, and hope to try another one.

We’re three-​peat customers. This time we did one tour instead of a combo and I do miss the two neighborhoods.
We were lead around by Garry this time and he was a riot. We lucked out that it was just us, and two people that were sort of shadowing Garry. Everyone was cool, we went around Chinatown and had a great experience.
We’ll be back again next year, high line!

This tour was a lot of fun. Our young pretty guide’s name was Amanda. We didn’t know very much at all about New York City so it was a great tour for us.
We sat down at some restaurants and others were take out windows. I loved that variety in food sources and the items that she ordered for us were things I never would have considered.
Restaurant choices were long-​standing establishments so you knew you were getting something good.
Not everyone is going to love every single stop, but that isn’t why any of us came. We came for some food, fun, a little adventure and a great memory. You will get that.
I would like to do it again in Chinatown.
Actually I’d like to do it every single borough in New York.