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Private Tours/Brooklyn By BusW e can offer private versions of any of our standard tours, including the Lower East Side, and we can modify them for your interests.
Besides such tours, we've done some completely customized tours to other neighborhoods, including tours for family groups having a reunion in Brooklyn, visitors hoping to move to Brooklyn, school groups exploring Brooklyn, etc. We've even spent five hours sprinting around Brooklyn to see as many neighborhoods as possible.
Please look at the other pages in the web site to determine if you want private versions of those tours. Please do not send a general request for a "tour of Brooklyn." See more information on the Contact Us page.
Brooklyn By Bus| Brooklyn is a great place to visit by bus, either in a smallish group (eight in a van) to a large one (50 in a bus). I've done a large variety of bus tours, including two-hour slaloms through Williamsburg and Greenpoint, a tour of the Hasidic archipelago of Williamsburg, Crown Heights, & Boro Park, and a tour of the shore, including Coney Island and its neighbors: Brighton Beach, Sea Gate, Manhattan Beach, and Sheepshead Bay. These can all be accomplished in two to three hours, depending on how often we stop for a snack or to get out. And yes, we should get out a few times. | | For those new to Brooklyn, I re commend a tour that hits the highlights: Fulton Ferry (great view of Lower Manhattan), Brooklyn Heights/Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene & Clinton Hill, Park Slope and Grand Army Plaza. We could also extend to stop for a snack--the Caribbean neighborhood of Flatbush is a good option. We could also take a jaunt through part of Green-Wood Cemetery, which is so vast you need a vehicle to see it.
The tour could be accomplished in the morning and, if we don't stop for lunch, take two to three hours, depending on logistics and whether I meet the group in Manhattan or Brooklyn. I could leave you at either the Brooklyn Museum (above) or the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, both of which have cafes for lunch and offer private tours for groups. Alternatively, we could stop in the middle of the tour for lunch. An extension to Coney Island would add some time, but some people really want to see Coney. I'm flexible.
Note: I cannot arrange for a bus or van but can provide some guidance. Check busrates.com for some ballpark prices. |
| Below left, the Brooklyn Museum subway station, with artifacts from museum coffers. At right, one entrance to the quite expansive Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This entrance is just next door to the Brooklyn Museum. |  |
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