Boss Babes Series #5: Suzanne Palmer of Olly Oxen Free Vintage

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Boss Babes Series #5: Suzanne Palmer of Olly Oxen Free Vintage

For the fifth article in our boss babes series, we sat down with Suzanne Palmer, owner of the incredible Brooklyn vintage store, Olly Oxen Free.

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Join Our Chelsea Market & High Line Food Tour and Experience Hudson Yards!

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Join Our Chelsea Market & High Line Food Tour and Experience Hudson Yards!

Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States and the largest development in New York City since Rockefeller Center. The site will include more than 18 million square feet of commercial and residential space, over 100 stores, restaurants curated by Chef Thomas Keller, The Shed - a new center for artistic invention and 14 acres of public open space.

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Boss Babes Series #4: Boundary Breaking, Bridge Building, Babe

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Boss Babes Series #4: Boundary Breaking, Bridge Building, Babe

You know the iconic image of the Brooklyn Bridge as well as you know you own hand. You can count the number of times you’ve walked across it on a couple of hands, but did you know that a woman had more than a mere hand in the building of it?

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Boss Babes Series #3: Back In The Day Babes

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Boss Babes Series #3: Back In The Day Babes

For the third installment of our blog series, we bring it home to the Nonnas! Read about how to special ladies inspired two iconic Williamsburg, Brooklyn restaurants: Mable’s Smokehouse and Best Pizza.

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Boss Babes Series #2: She's A Baking Boss Babe!

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Boss Babes Series #2: She's A Baking Boss Babe!

For article #2 of our series in anticipation of International Women’s Day, we profile Christina Tosi, who has built a sugar empire and become a household name in the celebrity cooking show world, and she’s not even close to slowing down.

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Boss Babes Series #1: Bagels, Babes & Babies

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Boss Babes Series #1: Bagels, Babes & Babies

Get ready! International Women’s Day is March 8 and in preparation, we are profiling and sharing some great stories of NYC’s best boss babes. Both past and present! Article 1 focuses on historic Russ & Daughters.

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Meet Local Artist Ebony Bolt on our Insider Brooklyn Art Tour

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Meet Local Artist Ebony Bolt on our Insider Brooklyn Art Tour

A wonderful way to experience the current art scene in New York is by meeting working artists. We recently hosted a group from Italy on our Insider Brooklyn Art Tour of Bushwick. Despite the rain, we shared our favorite street art murals at the Bushwick Collective and then our guests were able to participate in Ebony Bolt’s mural at Brooklyn Brush studios, which was truly a unique and memorable afternoon for everyone…

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Immigrants: Keeping New York Great

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Immigrants: Keeping New York Great

All of our tour guides bring a special and unique perspective to our NYC tours. As an immigrant herself, tour guide Kathryn Fray puts a focus on immigrants and why they have made this city so special…

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See Our Two-Page Spread in One of Australia's Largest Newspapers!

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See Our Two-Page Spread in One of Australia's Largest Newspapers!

Beyond excited that our NYC Flatiron Food Tour received a full two-page spread in Australia’s Traveller! “Pinch me. Am I really in Manhattan, or just dreaming?” Read on and we hope you’ll join us!

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Creative Gift Ideas for the NYC Lover

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Creative Gift Ideas for the NYC Lover

From gifts under $100 by working NYC artists to a glass blowing class, we list our top ideas for creative gift giving for the NYC lover!

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Explore Brooklyn's Design Center With Us!

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Explore Brooklyn's Design Center With Us!

Industry City has taken the heart of New York's former manufacturing hub and reimagined it for the 21st Century while still celebrating the city's historic ingenuity and work ethic. This is an immersive experience: where designer meets maker meets buyer. New ideas happen spontaneously in the various open spaces that allow people to naturally collide…

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Tour Guide Perspective: Kathryn Fray – Story Teller

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Tour Guide Perspective: Kathryn Fray – Story Teller

I can tell you a story about anything. Go on, ask me. Some people are good with numbers, some at sport, but I can make-believe. I never imagined that I would end up doing this though. Theatre and storytelling for me was always on the stage…

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NYC Architecture Tour: The Birth and Death of American Modernism

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NYC Architecture Tour: The Birth and Death of American Modernism

Along a stretch of midtown Manhattan streets less than a mile in length stand some of the most important buildings in the country. In this compact area, the world's most influential architects gave birth to American Modernism, built its undisputed triumphs, and sang its swan songs. The story hinges on four Modern landmarks: the United Nations Headquarters (1952), Lever House (1952), the Seagram Building (1958), and to a lesser degree, the Pan Am Building (1963). It seeks to explain why our buildings look the way they do, and why they could only have appeared this way right here in New York City…

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Podcast with The Offbeat Life

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Podcast with The Offbeat Life

Founder Lauren Beebe recently sat down with Debbie Arcangeles, creator and host of The Offbeat Life, a weekly podcast and trusted voice for entrepreneurs and freelancers living intentional and inspired lives. The Offbeat life has been featured on Refinery 29, Thrive Global, Dame Traveler, Forbes and more!

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African Boheme on our Chelsea Market, High Line and Meatpacking Food & History Tour

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African Boheme on our Chelsea Market, High Line and Meatpacking Food & History Tour

We are partnered with a great startup serving up wonderful experiences, called IfOnly and through them, African Boheme (@africanboheme), recently joined our Chelsea Market Food Tour. Here’s what she said to say…

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Like A Local Tours Wins Best Bespoke Cultural NYC Tour Company 2019!

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Like A Local Tours Wins Best Bespoke Cultural NYC Tour Company 2019!

We are excited to announce that we have been crowned Best Bespoke Cultural NYC Tour Company 2019 in the third annual 2018 Lux Life Magazine Travel Awards. We will appear in their annual magazine that is distributed to over 250,000 readers and on their website LUX…

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"23 Days of Flatiron Cheer"

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"23 Days of Flatiron Cheer"

New York City is a wonderful place to be for the holidays and we especially love the beautiful Flatiron District and Madison Square Park. This year the Flatiron / 23rd Street Partnership is putting on “23 days of Flatiron Cheer” and there is also a special Mariah Carey Experience going on until December 4. Keep reading for more info!

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Thankful for NYC

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Thankful for NYC

We are so thankful to our wonderful partners and guests for allowing us to share this absolutely amazing city with people from all over the world. As we reflect on what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving, we wanted to share some of the reasons we are especially thankful for NYC…

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Travel & Hospitality Award Winner

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Travel & Hospitality Award Winner

We are thrilled to announce that Like A Local Tours is an award winner for the Travel & Hospitality Awards 2018 Americas program.

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Lower East Side: Enjoy an Afternoon of Art & Food

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Lower East Side: Enjoy an Afternoon of Art & Food

We LOVE NYC’s Lower East Side and thought it would be fun to put together our ideal Saturday — popping into art galleries and nibbling in between…

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