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Harlem Tours Guide
Harlem, New York

Guided tours of Harlem, and the operators who run them

History walks, gospel and jazz, food tours and bus and bike tours, with a directory of 11 tour operators and a guide to the neighborhoods they cover.

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A row of brownstone stoops with black iron railings along a tree-lined street in autumn light

A day in Harlem, hour by hour

One way to stack the four tour styles in a single day.

History walk
Food tour
Bus and bike
Gospel and jazz

Hours are a planning sketch. Dates and times differ by operator, so ask before you book.

Guides

Five short reads before you book.

A carved brownstone newel post, stone steps and a wrought-iron fence on a Harlem street

Harlem history walking tours

What a history walk covers, the landmark districts on the route and who leads them.

Rows of empty wooden pews in a sunlit church with tall arched windows

Harlem gospel and jazz tours

Music tours, worship etiquette and the places jazz made famous.

Fried chicken, collard greens, macaroni and cheese and cornbread on a wooden table

Harlem food tours

Soul food, Caribbean and global stops on guided tastings.

Empty seats on the upper deck of an open-top sightseeing coach between brick buildings

Harlem bus and bike tours

Covering ground by coach or bicycle, and how the options differ.

A folded city map, a pen and a cup of coffee on a wooden table

How to choose a Harlem tour

Group size, length, meeting points and the questions to ask first.

Neighborhoods

Where the tours go.

A block of brownstone row houses with stoops and street trees under a blue autumn sky

Central Harlem

125th Street, the historic districts and the avenues that carry honorary names.

Red-brick apartment buildings with black fire escapes on a quiet street

East Harlem

El Barrio and Spanish Harlem, from La Marqueta to the Harlem River.

Row houses above a wide flight of stone steps on a hillside street with young trees

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Hillside row houses, Hamilton Grange and City College.

An elevated steel viaduct crossing a street beside an old brick warehouse

Manhattanville

The viaduct, the waterfront and the 125th Street corridor.

The programme

All 11 tour operators

  1. 01

    Custom & Private New York Tours, Inc.

    Private and custom New York tours

  2. 02

    Harlem Heritage Tourism and Cultural Center

    Walking tours, food walking tour, multimedia walking tours

  3. 03

    Harlem One Stop Cultural Tours

    Walking tours, gospel tours, jazz tours, Harlem Renaissance tours

  4. 04

    Hush Hip Hop Tours

    Hip hop walking tours, bus tours, private tours

  5. 05

    Inside Out Tours

    Harlem Renaissance bus tour, Harlem food walking tour, gospel and jazz tours, private and group tours

  6. 06

    Lady Altovise NYC Tours

    Harlem tours, soul food tours, gospel tours

West 129th Street, Central Harlem

One of the streets in the Central Harlem guide.

The map is centered on 132 West 129th Street, the address of NYC GoGreen Tours in the directory. The other operators are on the directory page, each with its own map.