Education is everyone’s responsibility, and A Friend in New York™ provides tour planning and guide services for school groups of all ages. We understand that every school group’s requirements are unique and so we customize your tour plan to your school group’s requirements. Your customized tour itinerary will incorporate your suggestions and requirements to help coordinate your visit with your school curriculum, and will be suitable for the ages of your students.

Your tour of New York can add emphasize history and the humanities, science and nature, or theater and the arts to suit the educational objectives of this visit or the focus of a magnet school. If your group has a particular affiliation, such as a school band or chorus, or a drama, history or art club, we can arrange performance sites for you or a master class or meet-the-artist experience, backstage tours of Lincoln Center, a Broadway theater or the Apollo Theater, or a Broadway theater workshop.

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have. We are sure we will create a fun look at New York for your school group and look forward to hearing from you.

A three-day New York Experience can include tours of upper, midtown and lower Manhattan (Wall Street, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, Times Square, Central Park, Harlem), with visits to the Empire State Building, the United Nations, South Street Seaport, NBC or CNN Studios, the American Museum of Natural History/Hayden Planetarium (including the world-renowned space show), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, and an evening performance of a Broadway musical. Or choose to mark your visit with any of hundred of other special activities and sights of New York. We arrange for group lunches and dinners at any of dozens of Manhattan restaurants and can obtain for you the best available rates at two and three star hotels in New York City and the nearby, convenient northern New Jersey area.

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