New York City Bound Tours

05/11/2017

From New York City Bound Tours Window on 1st Ave. The NYC Marathon.

15/10/2017

Wedding Officiant Extraordinaire Peter Baruchawitz Introduces his Central Park Wedding Experience. You have to see this!

Find out more about getting married in NYC's Central Park: http://ourweddingofficiantnyc.com/owoCentralParkNYC.html A tour of Central Park Wedding Locations ...

27/09/2017

Detail from Daniel French's "America"

25/09/2017

Just like a New Yorker "Me, Me, Me!"

22/09/2017

What are you looking at?

22/09/2017

Battery Park City - The World of Tomorrow . Photo by Ammiel Simon

27/08/2017

A repeat appearance of the Unisphere. Photo by Ammi Simon

27/08/2017

Broadway looking towards Columbus Circle. Photo by Ammi Simon

27/08/2017

New York City Bound Tours brings you Lincoln Center from the roof top garden of The Empire Hotel. Photo by Ammi Simon.

15/08/2017

While on my bicycle along the Hudson River, I came upon this artist.

31/07/2017

The Wards Island Bridge 1,247 foot span and then the Triborough ( or RFK Bridge ) Manhattan to Queens spanning around 2,780 feet. I crossed both of them twice on my bicycle to get to and from a birthday party at the Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria, yesterday. Best way to tour.

21/03/2017

This is a photo detailing the residential building under construction on W. 28th street. The architect is Zaha Hadid. Very "Jetsons" nest pas?

19/02/2017

Not sure why the Christmas lights on a singular night in mid February, but I was drawn in by the beat of the drum.

10/01/2017

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10/01/2017

New York City Bound Tours is an exceptional, yet suprisingly affordable, private tour service operating in all of NYC. While some tours limit New York City to a litany of trivial facts, Tour Guide Ammi Simon's creative approach connects the visitor's experience to the lives of the people who live here.

30/11/2016

The Cary High School Band at the parade
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cary+high+school+marching+band+2016

30/11/2016

This is the Cary High School Marching Band at rehearsal before the Thanksgiving Day Parade .

06/11/2016

New York Beyond The Picture Postcard Presents: A 2016 Marathon Moment From My Bedroom Window.

13/08/2016

A study in degrees. Presented by New York Beyond The Picture Postcard.

04/08/2016

From Liberty Island, I was able to get this shot of the Empire State Building and 432 Park Ave behind it. 432 Park is taller than the Empire and currently boasts the tallest rooftop in the city.

18/07/2016

And now...A Study in World Trade.

01/06/2016

I have FINALLY finished reading all 562 pages of David McCullough's "definitive" work: "The Great Bridge" The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. McCullough won the Pulitzer Prize for his book on Truman and again for his book on John Adams. This book, however , was as hard to read as the author's name is to spell. He is very stingy in his telling of the magnificent character, intellect, personality and all around greatness of Emily Roebling who, you may remember, was the wife of Washington Roebling - the Chief Engineer - and who, after her husband was paralyzed, acted as Supervising Manager and without whom the bridge's history would have been very different and most likely not nearly as successful. While the bridge is the quintessential example of technology achieved before its time, the author puts way too much emphasis on occupational details that are lost on the layman. I can now answer questions about the building of the bridge that will make the questioner sorry he or she ever asked. I'm just not sure that that's a good thing. But every now and then the author's research and imagination pushed through; like this letter that Washington Roebling wrote to Emily while he was fighting in the the Civil War:
"After all dear Emmie, pray tell me what is love? Is it kissing each other, is it tickling, hugging, etc. one another? Is it writing Billy Duxes, kicking each other's shins under the table? That must be it I think - the shins!"

And finally - a most beautiful last paragraph right before the epilogue:

In another time and in what would seem like another world, on a day when two young men were walking on the moon, a very old woman on Long Island would tell reporters that the public excitement over the feat was not so much compared to what she had seen "on the day they opened the Brooklyn Bridge"

01/01/2016

Happy New Year New York!

29/11/2015

This is a behind - the - scenes look at The North Hardin High School Marching Band. I had the honor of being the tour guide for these wonderfully talented kids . Intelligent, witty, kind and fun to be with, they made my Thanksgiving weekend magical. Thank you North Hardin.

29/11/2015

11/09/2015

I'm glad there are tourists with more of an interest in sports than my own. I might have never discovered this intriguing mobile made of gold sneakers on the top floor of Niketown on 57th street. Catch it before they take it down!
alley oop!

06/04/2015

Spring arrives in Spanish Harlem