"Best Place To Take Out Of Town Guests" - The Village Voice, 2014
"Great way to experience the city" - TripAdvisor Review, May 2016
We offer tours year-round with new dates added 3-4 months in advance.
Explore the Metropolitan Museum with a Big Onion art historian!
Explore how New York City has shaped the American Cultural Landscape.
A walking tour across the Brooklyn Bridge and into the city's first landmark district.
Explore the history & architecture of Chelsea with a walk along the High Line.
A walking tour of the dynamic DUMBO & Vinegar Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
One of Brooklyn's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods surround a park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
Explore 200+ years of Social Justice History in the Village
This history of the legendary Five Points. A guided walking tour created in partnership with the film "Gangs of New York".
A walk through one of the most dynamic and diverse areas in Manhattan, the bustling Union Square and the serene neighboring Gramercy Park!
Emphasizing the Harlem Renaissance, this guided walking tour looks at the history, architecture & people of this remarkable neighborhood.
Stroll through historic and religious sites, politics and people of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world.
Join us as we talk about the workers and labor movement that built New York.
Explore a century of ethnic and architectural change on the Lower East Side.
Walk in the footsteps of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton & others on this broad-reaching tour of today's Financial District.
This tour combines the history of the diverse Lower East Side with food sampling from local shops & markets!
A tour of Brooklyn's emerald jewel and possibly Olmsted & Vaux's greatest achievement.
Explore the shiny and grimy history of Times Square
Join us as we explore the role New York City played in the American Revolution and founding of America
Trace the historic & artistic evolution of the area “South of Houston”.
Between the Brooklyn Bridge & Financial District lies one of New York's oldest and most interesting neighborhoods!
Walk "The Triangle Below Canal" as we explore the history and architecture of one of Manhattan's oldest neighborhoods.
A walking tour exploring the splendor and history of the East 60s & 70s.
A walking tour focused on the history of Prohibition in the Central & West Villages.
A special Mother's Day walk exploring the history and foods of the multi-ethnic Lower East Side.
A celebration in the multi-ethnic Lower East Side...with food!
A Christmas tour combining the history of Christmas in New York and the legendary Greenwich Village.
A walking tour emphasizing the Harlem Renaissance, exploring the history of Harlem to celebrate Black History Month.
Explore the neighborhood where New York began on the last day of the year!
A walking tour of Historic Harlem to celebrate the many African Americans who have fought for equal rights.
An annual Big Onion tradition! What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than with history and more food?
Come celebrate St. Patrick's Day - the patron saint of New York City - in the 19th century Irish neighborhood.
A tour of the Jewish Lower East Side on Christmas. A Big Onion Tradition!