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Reva Cooper

Private tour guide in New York

10% discount available for the first 2 bookings!

Guide profile:

Hi, I'm a licensed tour guide, and became one after becoming a volunteer in 2007 for the wonderful Big Apple Greeters and taking visitors to the city to my favorite places. Besides being a lifelong New Yorker and still passionate about my city, I have spent the past 30 years promoting the arts as a press agent and marketer -- Broadway shows and major stars and attractions of music, dance and theater. These include the original productions of August Wilson's "Fences" with James Earl Jones, and Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" with Ed Harris and a young understudy named Bruce Willis; the New York Philharmonic, the MET Orchestra with James Levine; the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Yiddish theater; Patti LuPone in concert; Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra; legendary producer Joseph Papp at The Public Theater; Downtown pioneers of Off-Broadway; and much much more. My tours are arts-oriented (as well as including history and architectural highlights) and I have many personal "insider" stories about the artists and personalities I've worked with.

Tour guide services/sample itinerary:

My tours include:

1) Midtown Manhattan: Bryant Park to Columbus Circle, including the Broadway Theater District; Diamond and Jewelry District, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral and other Fifth Avenue attractions, famous delicatessens, Carnegie Hall, Art Students League, Osborne Apartments and Rodin Studios.

2) Greenwich Village, East to West: Astor Place to the High Line (just outside the Northern Border of the West Village). Includes arts history (Joseph Papp Public Theater, Cafe LaMama, The Living Theater, Cafe Wha?, "Edward Hopper Corner" -- his inspiration for the famous "Nighthawks", Second Avenue and Yiddish Theater), architectural history (Colonnade Row, Greek Revival houses at Washington Square, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery,Washington Arch, churches), NYC history (Triangle Shirtwaist Fire site, Jane Jacobs house, Stonewall Inn/Monument), neighborhood "haunts" and anecdotes (White Horse Tavern, Smallest Piece of NYC Private Property).

3) Brooklyn's Magnificent Brownstone Neighborhoods: Crown Heights to the Brooklyn Bridge. Start at Brooklyn Museum, explore Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights. Prominent buildings, neighborhood cultural life and customs, the birthplace of the mother of England's greatest prime minister, the 180-degree view of New York Harbor from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (tour can also include DUMBO, if desired).