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NYC 400
400th Anniversary of New Amsterdam!
GANYC is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Dutch Settlement of New Amsterdam and the importance of New York City to the United States and the world.We will be offering a variety of tours and initiatives.
GANYC Apple Awards
2025 GANYC Apple Awards March 3, 2025
The GANYC Apple Awards celebrate those who make New York City great! Over a dozen awards are given out each year to individuals & organizations from across our five boroughs.
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Any licensed NYC tour guide is eligible for GANYC membership! Join us at our next monthly meeting and learn the benefits of being a GANYC Guide.

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Native New Yorker,  Brooklynite: played stickball in the streets and skiball on old Coney Island boardwalk. Lived in the Midwest. Taught ESL in  Paris, improv in Rome. Licensed NYC Guide since 1991.  GANYC member from  1992--2003, and  again 2018.  Business Member:…
GANYC Members on CBS
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Two GANYC members were recently featured on CBS News.1. A couple years ago, Patrick Bringley turned his past work as a security guard at The Met into a memoir book: "All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me". Now, that memoir has been adapted into an off-Broadway one-…
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July 4th 2022 at the Battery July 4, 2022 at Battery Park George Tonkin
DUMBO FAM tour
January 2020 Meeting at the N-Y Historical Society
Statue of Liberty mural Always Look Up! ("RISE" on 45th Street) Deborah Blau
Magnet in SoHo Magnet and cast-iron detail in SoHo Ed Perlmutter
Brownstone facade Brownstone facade Ayinde Stevens
GANYC FAM Tour of New Amsterdam
ESB Empire State Building and Macy's Ayinde Stevens
Grant's Tomb General Grant National Memorial, Harlem George Tonkin
Governors Island FAM Tour
Cherry Blossoms Cherry Blossoms and the East River Ayinde Stevens
Giant pink pigeon foot Dinosaur Deborah Blau