NYC Boroughs

Type
Bus
Start / End Point
Grand Hyatt NY Hotel, next to Grand Central Station / Grand Hyatt NY Hotel, next to Grand Central Station

The Boroughs of NYC

Traveling by comfortable motorcoach and accompanied by your professional, licensed NYC bilingual tour guide, your day starts in the borough of Manhattan, known as “the city,” with a ride through Harlem in Upper Manhattan. Learn about the development of this diverse neighborhood and see historic sites, such as the world-renowned Apollo Theater, debut venue for many performers like Ella Fitzgerland, The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, and many others.

Next, you travel north to the borough of the Bronx, where you can see the home of one of the most famous baseball teams in the world: The New York Yankees! You also learn about the birth of hip hop, and while walking along the streets, you can view original street art.

The tour continues across the East River in the borough of Queens, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the US, whose residents speak over 100 languages. You pass through the exclusive Malba neighborhood, with its many beautiful homes, and visit Flushing Meadows Park, home of the US Open (one of the oldest tennis championships in the world), the New York Mets baseball team, and the Unisphere (leftover from the 1964 World’s Fair).

Later, you visit the borough of Brooklyn, viewing the neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Crown Heights, home to one of the largest Hasidic Jewish communities outside of Israel, alongside a younger, gentrifying non-Jewish population. Afterward, you head down to world-famous Coney Island, a destination for New Yorkers seeking fun and relaxation for generations. Weather permitting, you have an opportunity to explore the boardwalk and to have lunch at the original, legendary Nathan’s restaurant.

Finally, you head back over the East River, passing by the historic Brooklyn Bridge on your return into Manhattan. The day’s itinerary is subject to traffic conditions and may be modified due to time constraints.

Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan, Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn in 1 day
  • Apollo Theater 
  • Graffiti Art in the Bronx
  • The neighborhood of Malba
  • Corona, Queens
  • Williamsburg, Jewish Neighborhood
  • Coney Island
  • Nathan Hot Dogs, the original location
  • Brooklyn Bridge Park
APOLLO THEATER
Apollo Theater 

The Apollo Theater is a music hall located at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. It is a noted venue for African American performers, and is the home of Showtime at the Apollo, a nationally syndicated television variety show which showcased new talent, from 1987 to 2008, encompassing 1,093 episodes; the show was rebooted in 2018.

BIG PUN
Graffiti Art in the Bronx, Big Pun Graffiti Art

Christopher Lee Rios (November 10, 1971 – February 7, 2000), better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was an American rapper and songwriter. Pun's lyrics are notable for their technical efficiency, having exceptional breath control, heavy use of alliteration, as well as internal and multi-syllabic rhyming schemes. He is frequently cited as one of the best MCs of all time. Emerging from the underground hip hop scene in the Bronx borough of New York City in the early 1990s, he came to prominence during the latter half of the decade for his work with Fat Joe and the Terror Squad

MALBA
The neighborhood of Malba

The name of the subsection of Malba in northern Whitestone is derived from the first letters of the surnames of its five founders of the Malba Land Company: Maycock, Alling, Lewis, Bishop, and Avis. Malba is considered part of Whitestone, one of the more affluent communities in Queens. Demographically, the population is mostly white and of European descent (Greek, Italian, Irish), as well as Jewish, with a small minority of Asian Americans. Most of the residential properties in Malba are large homes.

CORONA
Corona, Queens

Corona is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bordered by Flushing and Flushing Meadows – Corona Park to the east, Jackson Heights to the west, Forest Hills and Rego Park to the south, Elmhurst to the southwest, and East Elmhurst to the north. Corona's main thoroughfares include Corona Avenue, Roosevelt Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Junction Boulevard, and 108th Street.

Corona has a multicultural population with a Latino majority, and is the site of historic African American and Italian American communities. After World War II, the majority of the neighborhood's residents were mostly Italian, German, Irish and of other European ancestries. Corona also has a significant Chinese population.

WILLIAMSBURG
Williamsburg

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint to the north; Bedford-Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick and East Williamsburg to the east; and the East River to the west. As of the 2020 United States census, the neighborhood's population is 151,308.

Since the late 1990s, Williamsburg has undergone significant gentrification characterized by a contemporary art scene, hipster culture, and vibrant nightlife that has projected its image internationally as a "Little Berlin." During the early 2000s, the neighborhood became a center for inside rock and electroclash. Numerous ethnic groups inhabit enclaves within the neighborhood, including Italians, Jews, Hispanics, Poles, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans.

CONEY ISLAND
Coney Island

Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west, and Gravesend to the north, and includes the subsections of Sea Gate to its west and Brighton Beach to its east. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on the southern shore of Long Island, but in the early 20th century it became a peninsula, connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill.

NATHAN
Nathan Hot Dogs, the original location

Nathan's began as a nickel hot dog stand in Coney Island in 1916 and bears the name of its co-founder Nathan Handwerker (June 14, 1892 – March 24, 1974), who started the business with his wife, Ida Handwerker. Ida created the hot dog recipe they used, and Ida's grandmother created the secret spice recipe.  Handwerker was a Jewish-Polish immigrant who arrived in New York City in 1912.

BBPARK
Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City. Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a 2.1 km plot of land from Atlantic Avenue
in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge.

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