Walk Harlem with someone who lives there.
Debi Kops runs two tours. Saturdays and Sundays at ten, two hours, back by noon.
Central Harlem Walk of Fame Tour
The Harlem Walk of Fame is one full block, tree-lined. Both sidewalks contain beautiful bronze plaques honoring Harlem legends.
- Saturdays at ten
- 2 hours
- $50, $25 for kids
Harlem’s Rhythm and Rhyme Renaissance Tour
Poets, photographers, and songwriters made these blocks famous, then fought to stay on them. Walk where they walked, from the ’20s to today.
- Sundays at ten
- 2 hours
- $50, $25 for kids
Chinatown and Little Italy
The street gangs, the opium dens, and the secrets of living in rough and raw Chinatown on the Bowery in the ’70s, along with the mafia clubs and hangouts of Little Italy.
Rosehill
In 1747, Rosehill was 131 acres owned by John Watts. It is residential now, and home to Kalustyan’s, a five-star international grocery and spice market.
Rockefeller Center
Debi was a tour guide at Rockefeller Center through Covid, from March 2020 to August 2021, when everyone wore a mask and the city was a ghost town.
Grand Central Terminal
A Beaux-Arts building open since 1914. A hundred and twenty years of events, and the secrets of the commuters who keep passing through.
Saturdays and Sundays, ten in the morning.
Grab two seats and bring someone. Change your mind up to a day before and you get every dollar back.
Ask Debi.
A private group, a date that isn’t listed, a tour built around what you actually want to see, or a guide for your own tour company. She answers these herself.