Pre-bookable city tours
Keith Prowse: among a wide range of pre-bookable tour options is a full-day Manhattan Comprehensive escorted programme covering main city sites, lunch, a ferry ticket to Liberty Island and admission to the World Trade Centre (£33 adults and £30 children) and a shopping trip to discount retail centre Woodbury Common (£20 adults and £12 children).
Harlem Spirituals Gospel and Jazz Tours: a range of daytime and evening tours lead by local guides. Harlem on Sunday walking tour includes a visit to a local church service to hear gospel music ($33 adults, $23 children).
Liberty Helicopters: a birds-eye view of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Prices rang from $50 for a 10min flight to $150 for a more comprehensive tour.
Queens Jazz Trail: five-hour escorted tour of the homes and hangouts of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald who lived in the borough of Queens. The walking and driving tour includes a soul food lunch accompanied by live music played by some of the area’s leading jazz artists. The tour departs at 10am on Saturdays and Sundays and finishes at 3pm ($75 adults, $65 children).
SeaAir NY Inc: offers 30min flights around Manhattan by seaplane which includes a birds eye view of the United Nations, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and the World Trade Centre ($99 per person).