Spotlight on New York City Tours LLC

12/16/2024

She had a glow up!

12/15/2024

What are the benefits of joining a guided tour with me instead of exploring the city on your own? There are many incredible things that tourists and even native New Yorkers are unaware of as they walk through the streets and parks of the city. The following testament highlights the value of touring with me. In 1968, Jimi Hendrix hired Linda Eastman McCartney, a talented photographer and Paul McCartney's wife, to take photos of him and his band for the cover of Electric Ladyland. Although Jimi was pleased with the results, the studio executives rejected his idea and instead chose an abstract portrait of Jimi in reds and yellows. Jimi was disappointed. However, in 2018, the studio decided to use Jimi's original choice, taken by Linda Eastman McCartney, for the 50th-anniversary edition re-release of Electric Ladyland, as a tribute to both Jimi and Linda. These are the types of interesting facts you will learn on my tours. As an added bonus, I will photograph you with props, creating memorable souvenirs. For example, on previous tours, participants have celebrated a VERY, MERRY UN-birthday party at the Alice in Wonderland sculpture, the exact location where Jimi Hendrix once sat.

12/15/2024

12/15/2024

12/15/2024

This picture of New York in 1933 looks like it's from the 2070s.

12/15/2024

One year ago...

12/15/2024

Scored this Tony Soprano lookin' shirt for $1 in Brooklyn thrifting! This will stay in my office as a prop when we go to TONY'S HOUSE IN JERSEY. I'll wash it after every tour so if someone didn't bring a DOPE BOWLING SHIRT, they can pretend they're on set and I'll be the FARDROBE (faux wardrobe). 🤣🤣🤣

12/15/2024

No cover! If we're going down, we're double fistin' it!

12/14/2024

It's Christmastime🎄 AKA BABKATIME!

12/14/2024

An article about Nora Ephron that I read almost 20 years ago has remained in my memory. Nora and Delia Ephron gave us rom-com on a silver platter. I love talking about them on my tours. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/05/moving-on-nora-ephron

12/14/2024

You learn more abut Nora Ephron on my UPTOWN tours. We go to her home! What a beautifully written article. Excerpt

“'I’ll have what she’s having.'
There are few writers whose voices have been so indelibly stamped on our psyches that they can be conjured up with just one line. Nora Ephron, the godmother of the modern rom-com, is one of them ...
Her spiky heroines, epistolary romances, cable knit sweaters and explorations of intimacy and heartbreak transformed American cinema, giving rise to a generation of screenwriters and directors who have striven to follow in her oxford-clad footsteps (not to mention the swarms of fans for whom films like “You’ve Got Mail” and “When Harry Met Sally” are annual viewing traditions, bookending that sepia-tinged, pencil-shaving-scented season known as 'Nora Ephron Fall').'"

Ilana Kaplan’s new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.

12/14/2024

The body part was discovered around 6:30 p.m. wedged between the rocks off the East River in the area of Water Street near Dock Street in DUMBO, cops and sources said.