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GANYC Events and Public Meetings
Our monthly meetings are open to the public and take place in venues across the five boroughs. GANYC members are also welcome to exclusive site visits and FAM (Familiarization) tours offered by fellow guides. GANYC guides offer FAM tours to their peers to receive invaluable feedback and to practice new tours.
GANYC Opposes New Measures for Visitors from Visa Waiver Eligible Countries
The Guides Association of New York City stands in strong opposition to proposed federal regulations that would require visitors entering the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) to disclose extensive personal information, potentially imposing significant new barriers to travel.
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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.
GANYC Certified Guide
Joseph has been leading tourists on joyful frolics through the streets of NYC since 2022. Brimful of acting daydreams, he schlepped his way from CT to the Bronx in 2015, only to discover that walking tours provided a more fiscally feasible means of obtaining affirmation from strangers. …
GANYC RoundUp
GANYC heads into Fall! A couple round-ups:1. GANYC has had a number of great meetings at NYC venues this year. Follow our YouTube to see the recordings each month:https://www.youtube.com/@guidesassociationofnyc/videos2. GANYC members continue to be featured in the news.Christina Stanton was…
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Radio City Music Hall
Ayinde Stevens
Boat Ride to Dead Horse Bay
Magnet and cast-iron detail in SoHo
Ed Perlmutter
West 45th Street Theaters
Ayinde Stevens
GANYC Members tour the High Line
July 4, 2022 at Battery Park
George Tonkin
The Metropolitan Museum of Art FAM Tour
Canal Street looking downtown
Emma Guest-Consales
GANYC FAM Tour of East Harlem
Always Look Up! ("RISE" on 45th Street)
Deborah Blau
Happy 400th Anniversary NYC in Times Square
Harvey Paul Davidson
General Grant National Memorial, Harlem
George Tonkin