Jeff Dobbins

Jeff DobbinsTours:
“Broadway Tour”

“Greenwich Village Tour”

“Lower East Side Tour”

“Tribeca Tour”

“Christmas in Old New York Tour”

Jeff Dobbins is a tour guide and writer. Jeff has a decades-long career in New York’s theater industry, working as a performer, writer, press representative for Broadway shows and manager of a Broadway Theater.

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Emma Guest-Consales

Tours:
“Gilded Age Shopping and Cast-Iron Architecture Tour of Ladies’ Mile”

“Central Park History and Landscape Tour”

“Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue”

Emma Guest-Consales, Ph.D. is an experienced guide, lecturer, and author who has taught art and architectural history in New York City for more than fifteen years. Emma holds a doctorate degree in Italian Renaissance art, and has taught classes on the history, art, and architecture of New York City.

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Carl RaymondCarl Raymond

Tours:
“Edith Wharton’s New York Tour”

“Art of the Gilded Age at The Met Museum”

Carl Raymond is the host of the podcast, The Gilded Gentleman, produced by The Bowery Boys. He is also a licensed New York City tour guide, writer, lecturer, museum educator and food historian.

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Kyle Supley

Tours:
“New York World’s Fair Walking Tour”

“West Village Musical Tour”

“Chelsea and High Line Tour”

Kyle Supley is a collector, host, entertainer, and licensed NYC tour guide. A design curator and consultant specializing in mid-century items, including lighting, furniture, and accessories, Kyle has been studying and collecting items from the World’s Fairs since he was a child.

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Mike MorgenthalMike Morgenthal

Tours:
“Ghosts of the Elevated Railroad”

“The New York Newspaper History Tour”

A lifelong New Yorker born and raised in Greenwich Village, Michael Morgenthal has been leading tours in his hometown since 2011. A licensed sightseeing guide in both New York City and Washington, DC.

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Kriss Roebling

Tour:
“Brooklyn Bridge History Tour”

 

Kriss is the quintessential New Yorker with experience as a musician, documentarian, and family historian. He is the great great grandson of Washington & Emily Roebling.

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Krikor DaglianKrikor Daglian

Tour:
“Artists, Oddballs & Provocateurs: East Village since the 1950s”

Krikor Daglian was born in NYC, grew up in suburban NJ and went to college in Maine, but after a few months living in London, he realized that he wanted to live in a city again, so he decided to come back to where it all began.

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Amy C

Tour:
“Historic Hotels of Midtown Manhattan”

Amy is a licensed tour guide with certification from the Guides Association of New York City. She has a BA in History, with a specialty in Urban Planning.

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Aaron Schielke

Tours:
“Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses Tour”

“Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue”

“19th Century NOHO Tour”

Aaron Schielke is a licensed New York City tour guide who loves exploring cities. He has worked on the design and production of a series of city guidebooks.

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Esther Crain

Tour:
“Gilded Age Riverside Drive Tour”

Esther Crain is an author, historian, and native New Yorker. In 2008 she launched the website Ephemeral New York, where she writes and publishes stories every week that chronicle Gotham’s past through old photos, newspaper archives, vintage artwork, and other artifacts

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Patrick Bringley

Tours:
“An Insider’s Tour of The Met Museum”

“Whitman and Melville’s New York by Foot and Ferry”

Patrick Bringley is a former New Yorker staff member and museum guard at The Met for ten years. He is the author of the book All the Beauty in the WorldThe Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me.

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Billy Nemec

Tour:
“Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue”

Billy Nemec is an experienced tour guide and jazz musician with a deep knowledge of the Gilded Age. He has a certificate of Historic Preservation from New York University.

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Beth Goffe

Tours:
“Glorious Grand Central Terminal Revealed Tour”

“Scandalous Tales of the Upper West Side”

“Central Park North: A Hidden Oasis in the Heart of NYC”

Beth is a long-time resident of the Upper West Side who makes a habit of collecting interesting and entertaining stories about her home neighborhood.

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Joseph Landon

Tour:
“Central Harlem Walking Tour”

Joseph Landon is a licensed tour guide with over 20 years of experience in the tourism, entertainment and hospitality industries.

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Bill Shaffer

Tour:
“Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue”

“Gaslight Neighborhoods of Old New York”

Bill is a licensed New York City tour guide and the author of The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father’s Disgraced Descendant and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism.

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James Scully

Tour:
“1830s New York in Lower Manhattan”

James Scully is a native New Yorker who grew up in a home with three generations of family. He’s a graduate of Xavier High School in Manhattan, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and has worked in media for companies such as Condé Nast and Hearst.

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Howard Yaruss

Tour:
“Follow the Money: How New York Became the World’s Financial Capital”

Howard Yaruss is an economist, professor, attorney, and activist who has taught a variety of courses on economics and business and currently teaches at NYU.

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Robert Zhu

Tour:
“Chinatown Food & History Tour”

Robert Zhu is a proud New York City tour guide with 29 years of local knowledge under his belt. He moved to New York City in 1995 and majored in economics and cinema studies.

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Laura Walter

Specializing in private tours

Laura has an immense love and appreciation for New York’s history, architecture, food scene, subway system – and most of all: the theaters. 

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Jeremy Wilcox

Tours:
“Midtown Art Deco”

 

“Victorian Flatbush: Brooklyn’s Gilded Age”

 

Jeremy Wilcox is a lifelong New Yorker and has been guiding professionally for over 8 years. He loves to provide the type of tour that can appeal to visitors or locals alike.

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Asad Dandia

Tours:
“Little Syria & Lower West Side”

Asad Dandia is a community organizer, museum educator, and local historian born and raised in Brooklyn.

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James Hoffman

Tours:
“Green-Wood Cemetery”

James Hoffman is a seasoned New York City tour guide with over a decade of experience. He has set up a diverse collection of sightseeing walks, bike tours, and cocktail history-themed events. 

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Ann McDermott

Tours:
“New Amsterdam Tour”

Ann McDermott has spent a good portion of her life working in and around Lower Manhattan. She is a Brooklyn native with a keen interest in New York history.  She knows these streets very, very well!

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Bill Schulz

Tours:
“Turtle Bay Walking Tour”

Bill is a longtime print/broadcast journalist who recently acquired his NYC tour guide license and firmly believes in the following, paraphrased, Mark Twain quote: “walk what you know”. Your humble host has lived, loved and liquored in Turtle Bay for over twenty years and his super-weird, personal anecdotes are available upon request.

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