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What Do They Say About Big Onion Walking Tours?

"Astoundingly informative tours"
Time Out New York Guidebook, 2007

"The most comprehensive and intelligent tours in the city."
New York Unlimited: The 1001 Best Things to Do in New York City - 2006

"The granddaddy of New York City walking-tour companies, with a rotating roster of nearly 30 history-based neighborhood tours... The rigorously trained guides, all of them grad students in history, employ a mix of erudition and wit and are comfortable improvising to suit a group’s needs."
Travel+Leisure, March 2006

"New York’s most prestigious historical-tour company"
The Rough Guide to New York City - 2007

"Seriously well-informed enthusiasts give insight into New York's many different worlds"
The Guardian (UK), October 27, 2001

"Expert guides"
The Washington Post, April 17, 1994

"The guides of Big Onion Walking Tours are all doctoral candidates in American and urban history who know how to present history with humor and panache."
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Autumn 1998

"Big Onion is a tourism benchmark."
Time Out New York Magazine, April 28, 2005

"They treat the city like an onion, peeling back its secret layers, showing how each immigrant group built upon those that came before, revealing the cross-cultural pollination that gives New York its special flavor…innovative, informative and highly entertaining walks."
Jerusalem Post, 1993

"Best of the Best. The guides at Big Onion Walking Tours truly know about neighborhood change and zeitgeist."
Our Town, February 27, 1997

"Big Onion unearths local narratives that are as new to most New Yorkers as they are to busloads from Dubuque."
New York Newsday, October 5, 2001

"Big Onion’s pantry of neighborhoods, ranging from Harlem to the Lower East Side, make up a juicy larder for those who want to bite into their own roots, as well as the roots of the nation."
San Mateo Times, June 25-26, 1994

"One of the themes of [the Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour] is how food helped newcomers mix into the great melting pot and gave immigrants an entrée into American life."
Health Magazine, July/August 1997

"Big Onion Walking Tours offers some of the most intelligent walking tours of the city."
Boston Magazine, February 2001

A Selection of Articles, Reviews, and Features about Big Onion Walking Tours include:

  • Time Out New York Guidebook - 2007
  • The Rough Guide to New York City - 2007
  • Cooking Light Magazine - October 2007
  • Journal News, August 24, 2007
  • Hartford Courant - August 6, 2007
  • The New York Times - June 23, 2007
  • Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark ) - February 1, 2007
  • New York Unlimited: The 1001 Best Things to Do in New York City – 2006
  • New York Press - May 24, 2006
  • Travel+Leisure - March 2006
  • Time Out New York Magazine - April 28, 2005
  • Gourmet Magazine - March 2004
  • 1000 Places to See Before You Die - 2003
  • The Sunday Times, London, UK - January 11, 2003
  • Journal Newspapers (Northern Virginia) - January 10, 2003
  • Providence Journal- January 9, 2003
  • New Haven Register - December 29, 2002
  • The Guardian (UK) - October 27, 2001
  • New York Newsday - October 5, 2001
  • Boston Magazine -  February 2001
  • The Boston Globe Magazine - January 7, 2001
  • The New York Times - December 26, 2000
  • Continental Airlines in-flight magazine -  December, 2000
  • New York Daily News - Monday, March 6, 2000
  • San Diego Jewish Times - January 20, 2000
  • CBS Sunday Morning Show - The Osgood Files - January 16, 2000
  • Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine - October 1999
  • The Forward, September 18, 1998
  • The New York Times - September 7, 1998
  • The Jewish Week - September 4, 1998
  • Crain's New York Business - June 1-7, 1998
  • Kiplinger's Retirement Report - March 1998
  • New York Daily News - September 21, 1997
  • Health Magazine -  July/August 1997
  • The New York Post-  July 21, 1997
  • The Australia Way (Qantas in-flight magazine) - July 1997
  • Gold Coast: The Magazine of South Florida Life - May/June 1997
  • The London Daily Telegraph - March 15, 1997
  • Inc. Magazine - August, 1996
  • Boston Herald- March 14, 1996
  • The New York Times -  December 26, 1995
  • United Airlines Hemispheres - June 1995
  • San Mateo Times - June 25-26, 1994
  • The Washington Post - April 17, 1994
  • The Oregonian - December 12, 1993