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Experience New York City through the eyes of a local private guide! Browse our tour 'suggestions' - each can be customized just for you.

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New York City Private Tours
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Discover the 'Big Apple' with your own New York private tour guide.

It's certain you'll want to visit the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Times Square, the Empire State Building - the list is endless. But using the services of a local, personal tour guide is the best way to see the hidden parts of New York - those places that only locals know about.

Choose from the New York City tours offered by ToursByLocals, but feel free to suggest alternative places and activities. Your private tour can be customized by your personal guide to include exactly what you want to see and do in New York City.

Remember, each local guide has been checked out by ToursByLocals and is a passionate person, keen to show you 'their' New York!
Tour Guide Legal Requirements
Most states offer certification and training, however the majority of states do not require a guide to have a license.

There are exceptions such as New York City, Washington DC, and New Orleans, that do require the guide to be licensed.

For state specific information, please contact ToursByLocals support. report error

All ToursByLocals guides have met our ToursByLocals Guide Requirements which includes warranting that they can legally give the tours they offer.

New York City Culinary Tours
New York City tours Culinary Private Tours Prohibition Dinner Tour
See real speakeasies, and the city you know... Hear the stories you don't.
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New York City tours Culinary Private Tours The City at your Fingertips
Give me a Day - Ill give you Manhattan.
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New York City tours Culinary Private Tours Downtown to Chinatown Historic/Food Tour
See and learn about the beginning of NYC and feed your appetite
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New York City Nature & Wildlife Tours
New York City tours Nature & Wildlife Private Tours Walking Tour Through The Central Park
Enjoy the great outdoors of New York City and the "poor man's Adirondacks"
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New York City tours Nature & Wildlife Private Tours Insider's tour at the Bronx Zoo
The largest Zoo in the U.S. just got a whole lot more intimate.
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New York City tours Nature & Wildlife Private Tours Celebrities and Central Park
East- and West-Side Celebrity Addresses, Linked by a Walk in the Park
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Other New York City Tours
New York City tours Other Private Tours A Custom Tour of New York with a Tour of Yankee Stadium
An Active perspective on New York
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New York City tours Other Private Tours First Steps in New Amserdam to the burning of the buildings.
History of a city devoted to hope.
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New York City tours Other Private Tours 9/11 Memorial World Trade Center tour
The day that changed the world.
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New York City City Tours
New York City tours City Private Tours Chelsa Market to the happening Highline and Greenwich Village
Food, Design, and Fashion
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New York City tours City Private Tours 9/11 Memorial World Trade Center tour
The day that changed the world.
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New York City tours City Private Tours New York City in a day!
A one day adventure seeing the BEST that New York City has to offer.
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New York City Cultural Tours
New York City tours Cultural Private Tours New York 5 hour tour
What a cheer!
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New York City tours Cultural Private Tours New York Airport Transfer/Day trip
Make the most of your layover in New York.
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New York City tours Cultural Private Tours New York Holiday Lights
A walk through Gotham's celebration
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New York City Shore Excursion Tours
New York City tours Shore Excursion Private Tours New York 5 hour tour
What a cheer!
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New York City tours Shore Excursion Private Tours Metropolitan Museum of Art Tour
The only way to see "The Whole" Met in under 3 hours
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New York City tours Shore Excursion Private Tours Wall Street to The Statue Liberty
ferry to see Ellis Island
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New York City Cycling Tours
New York City tours Cycling Private Tours Brownstone Brooklyn by Bicycle
The best of the great borough of Brooklyn, where it's all happening today.
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New York City Hiking & Walking Tours
New York City tours Hiking & Walking Private Tours A Special One-day Visit to New York City for Cruise Visitors
From Airport to Cruise Port - or the reverse - with New York City in Between
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New York City tours Hiking & Walking Private Tours Walking nyc
The best way to feel nyc !
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New York City tours Hiking & Walking Private Tours Midtown Madness
From Grand Central through Rockefeller Center, to Times Square
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New York City Youth and Family Tours
New York City tours Youth and Family Private Tours New York Holiday Lights
A walk through Gotham's celebration
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New York City tours Youth and Family Private Tours Walk the City Streets of Manhattan
Greenwich Village
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New York City tours Youth and Family Private Tours Downtown to Chinatown Historic/Food Tour
See and learn about the beginning of NYC and feed your appetite
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