Manhattan Memories !

Michael Morrows
Your New York City Tour Guide !


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               ON WHEELS - MOTORCOACH TOURS !   
 



THE GRAND TOUR !   Your STEP-ON GUIDE to your own Private Motorcoach !  Guided tours of
two to  four hours or full day  of all of
MANHATTAN !   Uptown and Downtown encompassing the city's
most popular attractions and neighborhoods.  Stops made upon request tailored to your specifications.

AIRPORT/HOTEL, RESTAURANT TO THEATRE  TRANSFERS !    Your MEET & GREETER
TOUR GUIDE / ESCORT
for all Airport Arrivals to Hotel Check-ins Round Trips or  Transfers to
Restaurants and Theatre Events.

  ON WHEELS AND ON FOOT  -  MOTORCOACH AND WALKING TOURS  -



BROOKLYN ! A Brand New, Full Day, Guided, MOTORCOACH  Tour .    Stops made upon request
tailored to your specifications.   A Ride over the Manhattan Bridge into downtown BROOKLYN  and beyond into
the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo, Willliamsburg, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, and Prospect Heights.  
Out to Coney Island takes you past Greenwood Cemetery through the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Borough Park,
Bensonhurst, and Gravesend.  After a Lunch and Shopping Stop through Brighton Beach you return by way of
Victorian Flatbush.
Combined into your Motorcoach Tour can be stops of –
WALKING TOURS !  choice of – The Brooklyn Bridge  *  Brooklyn Heights * Fulton Ferry Landing
                                                                     Fort Greene *  Clinton Hill *  Flatbush        
GROUP DINING !   choices of –   Pete’s Downtown * Nathan’s Famous, Coney Island * Junior’s Cheescake
                                                                        The River Café * Grand Prospect Hall
SHOPPING !      -       Atlantic Avenue Antiques & Noshing * The Fulton Mall *  Brighton Beach Avenue
ATTRACTIONS !    -  Brooklyn Historic Society * Williamsburg Savings Bank *  Brooklyn Museum of Art  
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens * Transit Museum *  Doll and Toy Museum *  New York Aquarium
    Keyspan Park Baseball Cyclones * Academy of Music * Greenwood Cemetery  

STATEN ISLAND !  Have your Motorcoach Drop you all off at The Staten Island Ferry Battery Park
Manhattan and pick you up at the Fort George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island.  Ride over to Staten Island with
your Tour Guide on the Ferry to reboard your motorcoach and tour the Staten Island neighborhoods of Fort
George,  Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Chinese Scholars Garden and lunch at the Botanical Gardens. Then off
to the Mary Austen Museum House and The Fort Hamilton Fabulous view of the NYC Harbor.  Back over the
Verrazano Narrows Bridge for a magnificent scenic ride into Brooklyn back into Manhattan.


QUEENS !        Over the 59th Street Queensborough Ed Koch Bridge  we tour the Borough of Queens.   
Ride  through the neighborhoods of Long Island City, Astoria, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Flushing, and
return by Sunnyside into Manhattan through the Queens Midtown tunnel.  Learn how Queens began
as farmland, evolving into one of the most ethnically diverse counties of the world. The Movie Industry,  Steinway
Pianos, New York World’s Fairs, NY’s Mets,  the US Open Tennis Games, see it all in Queens !  Stops/Visits can
be made at the Socrates Sculpture Park, Isamu Noguchi Museum, Museum of The Moving Image, and Queens Art
Museum NYC Panorama. Enjoy lunch at an ethnic restaurant in either Greek Astoria or Flushing’s Chinatown.


THE  BRONX !         The New ! Yankee Stadium, the Grand Concourse, Bronx Community College’s
Pantheon, Edgar Allen Poe’s Cottage, Belmont’s Little Italy on Arthur Avenue, the Bronx Zoo and Botanical Garden,
historic Victorian Woodlawn Cemetery,   Woodlawn’s Little Ireland, see it all.   Shopping/sightseeing at
Yankee Stadium, Community College’s Hall of Fame, Arthur Avenue’s Little Italy, and Woodlawn’s Little Ireland.


Halloween Ghost Tour of Manhattan ! Learn all about the Ghosts at the Ansonia, the Dakota,
Central Park, Madame Jumel, David Belasco, Ziegfeld’s Olive Thomas, Roxy, the Vandervoort Sisters, Rudolph
Valentino, the Flying Borsalinos at the Palace Theatre, in Greenwich Village we hear about Gertrude Treadwell,
John Barrymore, Peter Styvesant, Aaron Burr, Mark Twain, the Hanging Tree, downtown Cooke, the Headless and
Alexander Hamilton in Trinity Cemetery.  Stops can be made  at the Dakota, the Morris/Jumel Mansion,  the Old
Merchant’s Halloween House, Greenwich Village and St Paul’s Cemetery or
St Mark’s on the Bowery.  Group Lunch can be had at the New ! Jekyl and Hyde Murder Mystery Restaurant in  
Times Square, Carmine’s or Bowery’s B Bar.

The  Jackie “ O” Tour !    Your Motorcoach Tour beginning at Grand Central RR Station uptown to  
Madison Avenue to Park Avenue to Gracie Mansion  to Fifth Avenue to Central Park.   See where  Jackie Lee
Bouvier Kennedy Onassis  lived, worked and played on the Upper East Side,  the most expensive, exclusive
neighborhood to live in all the world.    Combine with the above tours of Palaces on The Park and Museum Mile
Meanderings and you’ve got a full day of spectacular New York Sightseeing !

Christmas Holidays Manhattan Nightlites !!!  Afternoon into Evening shop the Holiday
Markets at Grand Central, Bryant Square Park and Union Square.  See the Holiday Windows of Bergdorf’s,
Tiffany, Sak’s Fifth Avenue, Barneys, Bloomingdale’s, Lord & Taylor’s and Macy’s and the Holiday Lights of Fifth
Avenue – the Baccarat Snowflake, the Swarovski Rockefeller Plaza Christmas Tree and  St Patrick’s Cathedral.  
Downtown the Holiday Lights of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers and the WFC’s Winter Garden.  Stops/Visits can be had
at the Cathedral of St John The Divine, Riverside Church, and The Little Church Around The Corner.  Group
Dinner at Sal Anthony’s SPQR and Christmas Pastries at Ferrara’s in Little Italy.
Side Trips also to the Holiday Lights & Trains at Bronx Botanical Garden,  Rockefeller’s Cloisters or 5th Ave Met
Museum Renaissance Tree.
Or – BROOKLYN’S DYKER HEIGHTS LIGHTS ! With Dinner at L&B Spumoni Gardens and Cappucino &
Cannoli at Mona Lisa Pastry !

The Baseball Tour of New York City!  See a game at the New Yankee Stadium or the New Mets
Citifield.  Then on your coach down thru Manhattan to see where all the baseball Greats lived and played.  The Polo
Grounds, Ebbetts Field, the Dodgers, the Knickerbockers, Jacob Ruppert, Smithers
Rehab, 21 Club, Toots Shors, Mickey Mantle’s, Branch Rickey and O’Malley, where it all began in the Baseball
Capital of the World – New York City.
Inside Tour of the New Yankee Stadium can also be included and winding up for dinner in Little Italy or South
Street Seaport.        


The Church Tour of Manhattan ! A Full Day highlighting the CHURCHES and  RELIGIOUS
HISTORY of  NEW YORK CITY.  Off the Coach Stops at – Cathedral  of Saint John The Divine, Riverside
Church, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity Church at Wall Street, The Eldridge Street Synagogue Museum, Guided
Tours of Interiors, Rest Stops and Gift Shops.  Group Lunch at wherever requested.


NYC’s  Weekend Antique Flea Markets !  Manhattan and Brooklyn’s FLEA MARKETS
Do you love Antique Furniture, Vintage Fashion, Estate Jewelry, Collectibles, Bric a Brac, Junk, Tschatzkes and
Schmattes,  Ethnic and Artisanal Foods ? Ride Manhattan’s Upper East and West Sides and downtown to Chelsea
and the Lower East Side over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Fort Greene areas.  Stopping
at the flea markets we do our antique shopping and for lunch noshing at either the Williamsburg Smorgasburg,
Grand Central’s Food Concourse, Chelsea’s Eataly, or the Chelsea/Highline Marketplace !

   




                   ELLIS ISLAND, THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
                The path of  Immigrant history. See the Registry Room, Treasures from Home,
                Examination Galleries, & Wall of Remembrance.  Tour includes option of Statue                       
                of Liberty on round trip excursion ferry.





LOWER EAST SIDE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE continued
Olde New York, History, Architecture, Sociology. Schools, churches,
synagogues, theatres, tenements.  Winding up with ethnic shopping on
Orchard Street, the Bargain Boulevard.




                CANYONS OF LOWER MANHATTAN  Olde Nieuw Amsterdam,
                Details government, finance, history, and architecture.  Broadway, Wall Street, City Hall,
                the towers of downtown  and Mott St. in Chinatown.  Past & present plus shopping and
                dining at South Street Seaport.




GHOSTS AND GARGOYLES OF GREENWICH VILLAGE                 
Architecture & History plus haunted highlights of NY's Bohemia,
featuring Ghosts of Mark Twain, John LaFarge, Henrietta Chumley,
Tom Paine, Dylan Thomas & Aaron Burr. Secret courtyards, alleys,
farmhouses, and homes of village notables.



                   SOHO, EPITOME OF ART, FASHION, & DESIGN
                   From Hell's Hundred Acres of yesterday to SOuth of HOuston Street today,
                
   explore the landmarked Cast Iron warehouses and factories of  yesterday
                t
 ransformed into shopping emporiums, galleries, lofts, hotels and offices
                
   of today.  



TIMES SQUARE, YESTERDAY & TODAY From the Turn of the
Century into the media capitol, corporate theme park, outdoor emporium of commercial
display today, we see theatres, nightclubs, movie palaces, hotels, and the Restoration of
the New 42nd St. into the New Times Square, the Entertainment Capitol of the World in
all its glory is revealed.


                THE YUPPER WEST SIDER  The Landmark Art Deco, Victorian,
                Beaux Arts, Gothic Revival  Celebrity Apartment Buildings of Central
                Park West & Broadway.  Madonna, Merman, Lennon, Coward, Nichols,
                Hoffman, Hayworth, Seinfeld Country !  ABC-TV, Lincoln Center,
                the Ansonia & the Dakota, NY's uptown Greenwich Village !



CENTRAL PARK, URBAN OASIS PLAYGROUND
Discover the bucolic beauty of the center of Manhattan.  Explore the
Victorian Country Greensward of Olmstead & Vaux.  Strawberry Fields,
Bethesda Fountain, the Ramble, the Mall, Belvedere Castle and  Jackie's
Jogging Track !



                HARLEM RENAISSANCE II  From the Glory Days of Ragtime
                and Jazz to Yuppie-Buppie  rebirth,  explore Harlem's history.  The Apollo
                of yesterday to Harlem Song today, Sugar Hill. Hamilton Heights,  the
                Ebony, the Savoy, the  Morris-Jumel Mansion, Sylvia's Ribs, Ellington,
                Calloway, Satchmo, Armstrong, Langston Hughes have all called it home.



PALACES ON THE PARK, UPPER FIFTH AVENUE  
Vanderbilts,Carnegies, Astors, Kahns & Kennedys, N.Y.'s Fifth Avenue is Millionaire's
Row and Museum Mile.  See where Jacquie, Redford, Swanson, Allen,Newman, Hanks,
Taylor, Kline, Parton, Ross, Trump have all lived it up on the East Side of the Park !



                MUSEUM MILE MEANDERINGS  The Great Museums of Fifth
                Avenue ! Choose from Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim,
                Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, the City of New York, El Museo
                Del Barrio, or Frick Museum.  Or  uptown at The Cloisters overlooking the
                Hudson River !



THE NYC NOSHING TOUR "I'm not hungry, I'll just
pick !"
From the Chelsea Marketplace to Union Square Farmer's
Market to Little Italy to the Lower East Side to Chinatown !
Katz's Deli, Gus's Pickles, Ferrara's Cannoli, Kossar's Bialys,
Bagels, & Blintzes, and Yonah Schimmel's Knishes !




*Above Walking Tours can be combined into Motorcoach Tours to and from destinations !    
                                            
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