Free Brooklyn Heights Historical Walking Tour
Tour Type: Public Group Walking Tour
Themes: Brooklyn History, Architecture, Immigration and Demographics, Transportation in NYC
Starts: 209 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Ends: 1 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Duration: 2.5 hours
Cost: Signing up is free. Gratuity is appreciated.
Good For: Individuals, Couples, Families, Anyone!
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Join Alex on a Brooklyn Heights history tour to learn all about America’s oldest suburb. We’ll discuss the area’s past, from Dutch farmland to one of New York’s most elegant neighborhoods. We’ll follow the neighborhood’s demographics over time, from a provincial enclave, to a working class Jewish and Italian community, and eventually into Brooklyn’s most exclusive neighborhood.
We’ll weave our way through the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, stopping at several National Historic Landmarks along the way. Other stops include Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, several famous 19th century churches, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Ferry Landing, and DUMBO. If time allows, we may even stop by a few celebrity mansions and a famous French Bakery!!
Along the way, you'll have plenty of time to ask questions and engage with Alex on any number of topics.
The tours are casual, flexible, and fun, so bring your curiosity and a comfortable pair of walking shoes!
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Submit an inquiry form and we will get right back to you with dates the tour is available.
On the day of, Alex will meet you at a predetermined location, and the tour will begin. Tours are flexible, and we arrange everything, so you can simply focus on the experience!
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Food Strolls Guided Tours was created in 2020 as a means for sharing our passion for New York’s food, history, and culture with others. What began as a hobby has developed into a full service tour agency, and over the past three years we’ve given over 1,000 tours to clients including Stanford University, Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Google, Meta, BMW, Ernst and Young, and the NYC Department of Education.
We are fully licensed and insured tour guides, professional bloggers, and active members of the Guides Association of New York City. Local food and history is our passion, and our tours are experiences you simply will not find anywhere else in NYC.
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“I highly recommend this company. I booked the Brooklyn Heights tour as a work event. Everyone loved it. We learned a lot, ate great food, and had fun. Alex is lovely, engaging, and accommodating.” - Laura Dickey, Director of Engineering at Etsy
“NYC has so much interesting history and I think this is the best way to experience it. It was such a lovely walk around a beautiful and historic part of town in Brooklyn Heights. Alex was the perfect tour guide. And of course, pizza.” - Michael Shin, Software Engineer at Facebook, New York, NY
“Our family recently booked a private tour through food strolls and had a very fun time. We took the Brooklyn Heights Food and History Tour and learned a ton about Brooklyn and NYC history. We stopped 4 times during the tour to eat, and the food was delicious. Alex is a great tour guide. He owns the tour company and you can tell he is very passionate!” - Lucas Louis, Cinematographer and Foreign Correspondent for Globo TV International
“We recently visited New York from Colorado to visit our son in Brooklyn. We booked the Brooklyn Heights food and history tour and were blown away! We got so much more than we had expected. To learn the whole “backstory” alongside the food was fascinating. We are veteran world travelers, and hands down Alex is the best tour guide we have ever met. Thank you Alex!” - Patrick Beach, CEO of Captec Financial Holdings Corp