Suzanne Goss

About:

Suzanne Goss' New YOUrk Tours

Summary: Experienced New York City sightseeing guide, licensed in 2011 

  • Native Brooklynite - born, raised, and live in Brooklyn entire life
  • Lead individual, family, and small group tours throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan
  • Specialize in customized/bespoke tours designed around specific interests, eras, or figures from history/arts/sports
  • 30+ year experience as a global marketing executive, highly skilled storyteller/presenter

Experience:

Big Apple Greeter: 2016-Present:  Responsible for leading individuals and families on 3-hour visits to areas within Brooklyn and Manhattan of their choice; visits are designed to demonstrate Native New Yorker perspectives

New Yourk Tours: 2011-Present: Customized tour services for individuals and businesses

 

Education:

Pace University 

Personal Interests:

My personal interests are: Brooklyn Heights history, the arts and culture of Prohibition New York, sharing my lived experiences as a lifelong Brooklynite, the Algonquin Roundtable and the New Yorker magazine, and the New York Mets 

Special Tours:

The majority of my tours are built around the clients' own interests and hobbies , and as a business tool to provide a fresh perspective or analogy for a company who may be facing a new challenge or opportunity.  These are some examples:

  • The Titanic and its Passengers
  • Organized Crime: real-world and cinema-based
  • Irish Immigration and the Gangs of New York/Five Points
  • Theater before Broadway
  • New York: Home of Medical Miracles and Milestones
  • Bohemian Greenwich Village - from 1917 to Today
  • Look for the Union Label: Labor History of New York
  • Williamsburg Design: from Hard-working to Hip
  • Wall Street Architecture: A Case Study in Corporate identity strategies
  • How Technology Moves Customers - the Ladies' Mile as a business case in Going where your Customers will be, not where they are

Special Interests:

Business & Finance
I create tours geared towards businesses that are looking for a unique way to leverage an opportunity or solve a challenge, using New York as a living laboratory of case studies and analogies.
Folklore & Traditions
I provide a "Sidewalks of New York" tour with the history of childrens' street games and songs.
Brooklyn History & Development
The City of Brooklyn and pre-Consolidation Brooklyn make for fascinating tours, especially in regards to the Brooklyn Bridge
Medicine
Tours about the medical breakthroughs that have occurred in NYC are a particular favorite of mine, and famous figures from medicine/pharmaceuticals,

Languages:

English

Availability:

Wednesdays through Saturday, Sundays can be available. Morning, afternoon, early evening

Services Offered:

Tour Guide Corporate Meeting Staff Lecturer Tour Consultant

Tours Offered:

British Colonial History Art & Architectural Tours Brooklyn Chelsea Chinatown/Little Italy Civil War History Downtown Manhattan DUMBO Dutch New Amsterdam East Village Grand Central Terminal Greenwich Village Handicapped Hell's Kitchen Immigrant Experience Irish Immigrant History Italian Immigrant History Jazz Jewish History Lecturer Lower East Side Mob History Music Olde New York Private Tours Revolutionary War SoHo SoHo & NoLita South Street Seaport Sports Related Tours Student Tours Theater District Times Square TriBeCa Walking Tours Wall Street/Financial District

Featured Tours by Suzanne Goss

Bohemian Greenwich Village Greenwich Village started as an elegant neighborhood for the wealthy to escape disease and became the center of bohemia. .Here, you will see and hear the history of the Village and the evolution of people, places, art, music, and social issues that make it the center of cool.