Momentous Greenwich Village: Group Tour

Quirky. Irreverent. Iconic. Greenwich Village remains one of New York’s most historically important and exciting neighborhoods. An exporter of great social movements, the Village has in turn been altered by the sweep of history, politics, and power.

Guided by three tumultuous events critical to its growth, you’ll experience momentous Greenwich Village and its famous landmarks, epidemics, artists, writers, a celebrity murder, hangings, and a barroom brawl still celebrated around the world.

And you’ll do it all with a Village insider and native New Yorker. Me.

A writer and licensed NYC guide, I’ve lived in the Village for over 30 years. I’ve also given hundreds of tours to thousands of people from around the world—including foreign dignitaries and a member of Congress. Now it’s your turn!

Six-person minimum for this private group tour.

Hear the stories and see the places that make the Village famous!

• Learn why Greenwich Village streets are so meshuge, and whether Gay Street is really gay. (Don’t know what meshuge means? Learn that, too.)

• Discover why respectable 19th Century Village families would live only in houses that fronted onto streets.

• See where poet Edgar Allen Poe lived, and had his head cold treated, in 1837.

• Hear how slums like The Five Points (think “Gangs of New York”) impacted the early, wealthy landowners of Greenwich Village.

• Visit where (and learn why) Mae West was tried on obscenity charges in 1927. And where a scandalous celebrity murder trial took place in 1906.

• Learn how extending the subway to lower Manhattan changed Greenwich Village forever.

Everything is brought to life. You feel you lived in the places Judith describes and knew the incredible people she introduces you to.
— Michele D., NJ

Each stop was tied to the next. When the tour ended, I felt like I’d read a fascinating book from start to finish.
— Sonia A., NY

It wasn't a tour; it was a trip on a time machine.
— Rosemarie F., CA