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Home » Blog » Family Vacation Destinations » Northeast Destinations » Big Apple Greeters: Free Tour Guides in NYC

Big Apple Greeters: Free Tour Guides in NYC

September 24, 2011 //  by Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman//  Leave a Comment

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big apple greeterSo you want to come to NYC, but you think it’s too dangerous,  too expensive too totally and completely overwhelming even to imagine it.  That’s why you need Big Apple Greeters, a non-profit organization that matches visitors with friendly and enthusiastic New Yorkers who are happy to share the city they love with families, friends, and individuals traveling solo. Most important, the service is FREE, and they have a strict, no tipping policy.

Every day,  Big Apple Greeters deploys  some of its 300+ volunteer greeters out to meet individuals and families and show them around.  And yes, I said volunteer.  People work as greeters because they want to show out of towners the friendly side of the town they love.  (In this photo, Council Member Robert Jackson serves as Greeter for a Day!)

Council Member Robert Jackson serves as Greeter for a DayEach year, the Greeters bring approximately 7,000 visitors to 114 neighborhoods throughout the City.  Since its start in 1992, Big Apple Greeter has welcomed nearly 100,000 visitors from all 50 states and 124 countries, with visits conducted in over 20 languages.

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Impressive right?

And event though they get 10,000 requests a year, I think it’s also not that well known. 

But now you know.

Contact Big Apple Greeters before your next NYC visit, fill out a visit request form, leave a donation (the program doesn’t run itself, you know).  You’ll see the city in a whole new way – through the eyes of a local who really does love New York.

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About Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman

Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman is a married mother of ten year old boy/girl twins living in NYC. She is a third generation Manhattanite who loves to travel -- as long as she knows she'll eventually make it back to the greatest city in the world. An award-winning television writer, Nancy spent nearly 20 years as a freelancer working for Lifetime, HBO, Showtime, ESPN, A&E, Nickelodeon -- just to name a few. Her humor essays on motherhood have been syndicated in the online versions of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, and The Charlotte Observer, in the multiple award-winning Brain, Child magazine, in the anthologies The Knitters Gift (Avalon Press 2005) and The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater (Seal Press 2007).
Nancy blogs about momming, aging, and her 20 year quest to lose the same 10 pounds at FromHiptoHousewife.com. She has a weekly podcast with three friends, The Blogging Angels.

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