Walking Tours

 
Leave the buses behind and walk the streets of Harlem and feel the sights of our home. All walking tours are conducted by those who actually live and work in Harlem – come get an insiders view of the community. Re servations required for all tours and private tours are available.  If you do not see a tour available on the schedule/calendar page that is comfortable for you, call us at 212 280-7888 or email: loveharlem@aol.com and we may be able to accommodate you.

“From Harlem Heritage Tours to the Museum Mile”

One of the blessings of Harlem is that the community is right off the coast of New York Cities renowned Museum Mile.  Join us on Tuesday June 8th as we walk the area of Lower Harlem and see elegant apartment buildings, historic houses of worship and art & cultural institutions.  The brief walk of Lower Harlem will lead us directly to 5th and into New York Cities biggest Block Party, consisting of 23 city blocks featuring the strips top museums: http://www.museummilefestival.org/ I’m looking forward to this one.

Time:        Walking tour from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Museum Mile Block Party: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Place:       Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center – 104 Malcolm X Blvd. .

Price:        $15.00

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Obama Fanatics Harlem Walking Tour

barack_obama_change1Community Organizing served as the platform for Barack Obama to rise to the Presidency of the United States.  Walk through Harlem as we identify community organizers/organizations and their impact on Harlem.  Sights include but not limited to: National Action Network, Harlem Children’s Zone, Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Children’s Aid Society, Harlem Business Alliance + more.  It’s all about community.

Days: 04/24/2010 – check calendar for more dates.
Time: 11:00 AM -1:00 PM
Price: $25.00 Per Person
Meet: National Action Network, 106 W. 145th St. #2, #3 trains arrive a few feet away from meeting location.
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Take the A Train Harlem Heritage/Apollo Experience

Harlem Heritage Tours and the Apollo Theater collaborate to present the “Take the A Train to Harlem Experience”.  Meet us downtown and ride the A train uptown to the grand village of Lady Harlem.  Exit the subway and immediately you feel the pulse that inspired Duke Ellington to write the legendary tune “Take the A Train”.  Guided by a born and raised Harlem resident, you will walk historic streets in the area celebrating music and cultural greats such as Bill Bo Jangles Robinson, Louis Armstrong and Willie Bryant – yes Willie Bryant – followed by a sit down soul food meal at a community Restaurant.  We will end the excursion with “Amateur Night at the Apollo”.  This is the event that has launched the careers of countless entertainment giants such as Michael Jackson and James Brown – Harlem at its best.

Days: Wednesdays – ALL SUMMER 2010
Time: 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Price: $75.00 Per Person.
Meet: New Victory Theater: 209 W. 42 st. Listen for the tune “Take the A Train” played at high Volume. Guide will wear red Harlem Heritage Tours hat with sign.
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Jazz Nights in Harlem Walking Tour

cabWhen the sun goes down during summer 2010 come uptown and relive the entertainment yesteryears of Harlem. Event starts with a  walking tour that will make multiple visits to happening night spots in Harlem.  Explore some of the old places and find out what’s new at night in Harlem.  After making various mini stops, we will sit down for dinner and a live jazz/music performance at a favored venue in the grand village of Lady Harlem – all tour guides for this one were born, raised and still live in Harlem.  Get an insiders view of Harlem’s Jazz/Music Nights.

Time: 6:30 PM – Midnight – Every Friday and Saturday night during summer 2010
Price: $79.00
Meet: Harlem Heritage Tourism and Cultural Center: 104 Malcolm X Blvd., #2 and #3 trains arrive directly to location.
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Spanish Harlem Walking Tour

Visit Spanish Harlem and explore the history of Salsa music while seeing and feeling one of New York Cities best kept cultural secrets. A historian will explain the evolution of Salsa music and guide you to residences associated with innovators such as Tito Puente, Machito Grillo, Joe Cuba, Marc Anthony, “Chocolate”, Tito Allen, “Rigo” Malcon, and Justo Betancourt + more. See sights such as botanica’s, former social clubs & night clubs and institutions of art & culture.

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Price: $25.00 Per Person – $20.00 Per Person for groups of 15 or more.
Meet: 110th Street & 5th Avenue & Central Park. 2, 3 express trains (IRT red-line) arrives directly to 110th Street & Malcolm X Blvd. Walk one avenue east to 110th Street & 5th Avenue.
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Apollo Theater Walking Tour

Come to Harlem during the 2007 and help us celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the world famous Apollo Theater. The Apollo stage has been the launching pad to stardom for some of the world’s greatest entertainers via its “Amateur Night at the Apollo” showcase, which has been in place since 1934.

Walk the streets with us as we visit sights associated with Apollo greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sandman Sims, Count Basie, Willie Bryant, Duke Ellington and many others. The tour ends with a visit inside the Apollo Theater and you can actually walk across the stage, rub the historic log and see if you got what it takes to be an Apollo star.

Dates: Wednesdays
Time: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Price: $35.00 Per Person
Meet: 135th Street & Malcolm X Blvd., on northwest corner in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 2, 3 express (IRT – red line) trains arrives directly to location.
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Taste of Harlem MULTIMEDIA Walking Tour

Come on this tour and taste your way through the culturally diverse atmosphere of Harlem.  Taste as you walk through African, African-American, Jamaican and Spanish heritage.  Along the way we will feel the true spirit of the community with a born and raised Harlem resident, see major sites while watching video associated with the site.  The multifaceted scene of Harlem will come to life on this one of a kind Harlem experience

Time: Every Friday during summer 2010.
Price: $39.00 Per Person.
Meet: Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center – 104 Malcolm X Blvd, between 115th & 116th Streets on uptown side of Malcolm X Blvd. 2, 3 express trains arrive directly to location on (IRT – red line).
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Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Walking Tour

Some of Manhattan’s most beautiful architecture exists in this culturally drenched Harlem neighborhood. Visit the house originally inhibited by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790’s. This part of Northern Manhattan is called Sugar Hill, due to the fact that historically, this is where the moneyed class lived. Life is said to be sweet on Sugar Hill. Some of Harlem’s most celebrated heroes and heroines have resided in this area: W.E.B DuBois, Walter White, Paul Robeson, Count Basie, Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, Adam C. Powell Sr. and Eulalie Spence. The atmosphere of Sugar Hill/Hamilton is breath taking – come and take a cultural bath in Upper Manhattan.

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Price: $25.00 Per Person – $20.00 Per Person for groups of 15 or more.
Meet: 141st Street & Convent Ave., on northeast corner in front of Alexander Hamilton Grange. A, B, C, D trains arrive to 145 & St. Nicholas Ave. – walk west to Convent Ave., and then south to 141st Street.
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Harlem Gospel Walking Tour

Many are coming on sunday mornings for gospel experiences that include music, but few are receiving an experience that expresses the role the church plays in the community including and beside the music. Come with us and experience a wonderful spiritual environment that includes great music + many  emotionally and spiritually uplifting elements that have brought the Black community from slavery to President Barack Obama.  Church service is followed by a cultural walking tour that will showcase the impact that the church has on community building in Harlem and the Harlem’s of the world.  Walk doe’s not just feature churches, but tell the over all story of Harlem with stops at many sights of cultural significance.

Days: Every Sunday – all year long – 2010
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Price: $39.00 Per Person
Meet: Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center – 104 Malcolm X Blvd, between 115th & 116th Streets on uptown side of Malcolm X Blvd. 2, 3 express trains arrive directly to location on (IRT – red line).
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General Harlem History Walking Tour

Apollo Oral HistoryThis tour is designed to provide a general introduction to the history of Harlem. Tour features a mix of Harlem sights including churches, jazz clubs, speakeasies, elegant neighborhoods, institutions of art & culture, famous residences, and eateries. The tour will explain Harlem’s history from the beginning (mid 1650’s), to the present with special attention paid to the current renaissance happening in the community.

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Price: $25.00 Per Person – $20.00 Per Person for groups of 15 or more.
Meet: Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center – 104 Malcolm X Blvd, between 115th & 116th Streets on uptown side of Malcolm X Blvd. 2, 3 express trains arrive directly to location on (IRT – red line).
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Harlem Renaissance Walking Tour

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This walking tour transports you back to the days of the Harlem Renaissance, when the community was loaded with talented civil rights leaders, artists, writers and musicians. Tour speakeasies, jazz clubs, elegant neighborhoods, churches, and residences associated with 1920’s Harlem. Sights include the original location of the Cotton Club, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Dark Tower (property associate with Madame C.J. Walker & daughter A’lelia Walker), the Langston Hughes House, home of Wallace Thurman, Savoy Ballroom and many others. Tour complimented by photo’s and Harlem Renaissance music.

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Every Saturday during Summer 2010
Price: $25.00 Per Person – $20.00 Per Person for groups of 15 or more
Meet: 135th Street & Malcolm X Blvd., on northwest corner in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 2, 3 express (IRT – red line) trains arrives directly to location.
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Harlem Civil Rights Walking Tour

WyatteThe Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was a time of monumental change and Harlem served as both stage and player during the period. We will revisit a time when Blacks felt a closer association with Africa and a heightened since of racial pride – “BLACK POWER” was the slogan of choose for many. See the very mosque where Malcolm X was a leader, visit the church once lead by Wyatt Tee Walker (top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), visit energetic 125th street and take a picture in front the new statue dedicated to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. + more. Walk complimented with multimedia Civil Rights exhibition at the Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center.

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Price: $25.00 Per Person – $20.00 Per Person for groups of 15 or more
Meet: 104 Malcolm X Blvd. Harlem Heritage Tourism and Cultural Center 2, 3 express (IRT – Red line) trains arrive directly to location at 116th Street.
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