Free walking tours in New York Contrasts

Jon’s tour was absolutely incredible! He’s truly passionate about his work and puts his whole heart into it. His knowledge of NYC is impressive — he answered all our questions and even took many amazing pictures himself. Definitely a 12 out of 10 experience!

John was amazing, super knowledgable and sharing perspective about architecture, history about the city; he was extremely welcoming and made a great experience for us, also a pro on photo shoots

Definitely recommend, there's always something new to learn from these tours! Mark was professional and knowing.

Great insights, trivia and knowledge, that kept us engaged for over 3 hours. Mike was friendly and fun

Fantastic tour - Mike was so knowledgable and passionate. Would definitely recommend!

This tour was unusual in that the guide made a real attempt to build a narrative into the tour. He weaved a series of themes into his information building the impression of a ‘story in motion’ as the tour progressed. A great way to spend three hours!

One of the best walking tours I’ve been on. Mike was knowledgeable, enthusiastic and wonderfully genuine. The tour honored so many unspoken hero’s of New York history! I would recommend to anyone!

Relaxed, fun and informative. Derrick was a great guide. Only suggestion is to ask for a faster pace if you want it.

Hope that weather permits next time. I got messages from the guide that everyone else canceled the tour because of the weather.

Wonderful tour- Do not miss whether you are visiting NyC or are a native!

We had an excellent time with Mike. Mike was professional, engaging and funny and we learnt so much about the area.

Me and my family (husband, 2 daughters 14 and 12) did this tour as my bestie recommended a walking tour (she’s done many). It was the best decision. Have been to NYC on many occasions but never walked the Brooklyn bridge or even ventured over to Brooklyn. This was an excellent tour and our guide Mike was fabulous. I will definitely look at doing another tour like this in the future. It’s a great and affordable way to learn more about a place.

Great fun, cares very much about what people are interested in. Best photo ops and vey interesting!

The Brooklyn bridge walk over is a must do if coming to New York. Derrick was knowledgeable and gave us a lot of information on Dumbo, Brooklyn and New York. A must do in New York.

Great tour for anyone curious! Easy but long walk across the bridge and discovery of two adjacent but completely different neighborhoods at the steps of the bridge.

The weather was outstanding which made the tour even more amazing. The location Derrick took us to for the sunset pictures was phenomenal! We had an excellent group and four of us went out for dinner afterwards to finish off the day. The perfect way to end a vacation. Thanks Derrick & Jon for some great tours this past week!

He is a very professional guide. He takes care everyone’s need despite big variety of audience. His role plays presentation made topics are so interesting and much easier to understand. My son who particularly attentive coz I guess he likes history and architecture so much. The walk was amazingly informative and entertaining. A big thumb up to Garuwalk and Mike!

Mike was a perfect guide by despite having a very large group he managed to cover all of the route and brought interesting perspective and related well to everyone of the group.

The walking tour was great. Mike was very knowledgeable and entertaining. Learnt great new things.

No thanks

Derrick was very a enthusiastic and funny guide! We would love to do it again!

I really liked the guide’s way of explaining and telling us about the surrounding. He had such a humorous way of explaining things. I will definitely recommend other people about him and the tour.

Entertaining, Knowledgeable and Heartfelt. Everyone take this tour from Jon at Cityshuffles. You’ll be glad you did!

Great tour with John Gallagher! We learned a lot, had fun and we will see N-Y and Brooklyn with a different eye. Thank you so much!

Lovely way to see this part of the city. Loved walking across the bridge and learning all about that!