Welcome to Local Expeditions.
Community-driven adventures!
LOCAL EXPEDITIONS offers 2-3 hour excursions including walking tours and bike tours designed by locals for out-of-towners or anyone who prefers to DO WHAT LOCALS DO over typical tourist experiences.
ALL EXPEDITIONS CAN BE CUSTOMIZED — DATES, TIMES, GROUP RATES–YOU NAME IT! Contact us here localexpeditions@gmail.com
If you’d like to take an excursion, designed and executed by a local for a true insider experience, TAKE AN EXPEDITION below. Know someone who would love a true local experience? GIFT AN EXPEDITION and brighten their day! If you’d like to design your own tour, great! We need your knowledge, insights and passion. Head over to LEAD AN EXPEDITION to get started.
Monday
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Tuesday
23
23rd at 11:00AM
Ferry to DUMBO
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Wednesday
24
24th at 11:00AM
Bike Bushwick!
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Thursday
25
25th at 11:00AM
CitiBike DUMBO
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Friday
26
26th at 11:00AM
Prospect Park and Park Slope Brownstones
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Saturday
27
27th at 11:00AM
CitiBike DUMBO
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Sunday
28
28th at 11:00AM
Bike Bushwick!
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Guided by Akosua A.
for GrowNYC
Not only must you take the A train to Harlem but you must also go to brownstone Bedford-Stuyvesant or “Bed-Stuy”
Explore Expedition
Guided by Nancy B.
for GrowNYC
Get on your bike, get some exercise and explore the best street art Brooklyn has to offer!
Explore Expedition
Guided by Akosua A.
for GrowNYC
Not only must you take the A train to Harlem but you must also go to brownstone Bedford-Stuyvesant or “Bed-Stuy”
Explore Expedition
Guided by Lance P.
for Art Start
Explore Expedition
Guided by Paul K.
for New York Restoration Project
A walk along the first pipe that brought upstate water into New York city.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Cezar D.
for Actors Temple/Synagogue
Many a ghostly player still struts & frets their hour upon the Broadway stage
Explore Expedition
Guided by Robert S.
for Hunters Point Parks Conservancy
Biking the Historic "Other Side" of the East River!
Explore Expedition
Guided by Cezar D.
for Coney Island USA
Come to Coney Island and marvel at its artistic past.
Explore Expedition
Guided by John B.
for Appalachian Mountain Club
Spend a day hiking in the woods and see Manhattan from a new angle.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Marc L.
for GrowNYC
From NYC’s founding to the Financial District to the Events of Sept 11, 2001.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Marc L.
for GrowNYC
Food at the start, food at the end, History in between.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Peter L.
for Reading Partners
Who came and what did they find? What did they do with it and how does it matter?
Explore Expedition
Guided by Peter L.
for Reading Partners
Visit the centerpiece of modern New York.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Cezar D.
for Theatre Historical Society of America
Learn about downtown Brooklyn's rich cultural heritage from a theatre historian.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Cezar D.
for Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
Discover the East Village with a Theater Historian!
Explore Expedition
Guided by Jeremy W.
for People for the Pavilion
Travel back in time to the World’s Fair!
Explore Expedition
Guided by Jeremy W.
for GrowNYC
Stunning Victorian mansions. Historic churches and theaters. A small business boom. Come discover Flatbush.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Nancy B.
for Squam Lakes Association
A private “On Golden Pond” boat tour given by a local with 5% of proceeds benefitting the the Squam Lakes Association.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Nancy B.
for Dream Street Theatre
Start your Saturday with exercise and some of the obscure sights of Brooklyn's beautiful and wild Prospect Park. THIS EXPEDITION IS HALF PRICE.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Nancy B.
for Reading Partners
Ride a Ferry, Take Photos, and walk DUMBO.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Nancy B.
for Reading Partners
Learn about CitiBike, ride the bridges, and see what this local likes in DUMBO.
Explore Expedition
Guided by Nancy B.
for Reading Partners
Park Slope's infamous archectiture is highlighted in this 3 hour mid-day tour.
Explore Expedition
Theater District
This is a neighborhood in mid-town Manhattan where most of the theaters are located–in and around the Times Square area.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
More commonly known as “Bed Stuy” this neighborhood is in Central Brooklyn. For decades, it has been a cultural center for Brooklyn’s African American population. …in 1936, (many, sic) African Americans left an overcrowded Harlem for greater housing availability in Bedford–Stuyvesant. From Bedford–Stuyvesant, African Americans have since moved into the surrounding areas of Brooklyn, such as […]
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Times Square
Times Square is one of the best known tourist destinations in the world. Encompassing the blocks of 42nd to 47th street, and the Avenues of Broadway and Seventh, this neighborhood has been depicted in hundreds of films and is probably best known for the New Year’s Eve dropping of the ball. Or, of course, the […]
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The Jewish population in NYC is the largest in the world, outside of Israel.
