Visiting New York City is always an education, even for tourists simply looking to have fun. The diversity of our residents, the long and varied history of our city, and the art, culture, architecture, food, and music that we are so famous for all make New York City an ideal place for students.

Our Licensed New York City Tour Guides are real New Yorkers with a “city edge” that keeps students engaged and helps group leaders feel safe escorting students through the city. Tours are also enhanced by the knowledge of local experts at the various sites on the itinerary.  

Multi-day tours, themed day trips, and half-day tours are available to meet the unique needs of your group. Examples of themed tours include Experience Jazz , Financial Tour, Experience Art, The World Of Fashion and two history tours: Immigrant History Tour and the Revolutionary War.

If you are looking for a specific themed tour not listed on this site, please call us at 1-800-999-8160 and we will create an itinerary for you.
 

Beyond Times Square provides your group with a safe, stress-free way to get the most out of the living classroom that is New York City. More than just a “top ten list” tour, our multi day student tours offer unique experiences that will enhance your students’ understanding of the city.  If you need a specialized tour for your students or a program to match your curriculum we can take the stress out of it and handle it for you.
Highlights of student tours include: 

►Central Park, the first landscaped, public park and the most visited urban park in the United States. Covering 6% of Manhattan, Central Park is home to Tavern on the Green, Belvedere Castle, the Central Park Zoo, and Strawberry Fields, the tribute to the late John Lennon.
 
►The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, where students can get a sense of immigrant life at American Family Immigration History Center®, and the American Immigrant wall of Honor®, the longest wall of names in the world with over 600,000 names.
 
►Tour a television studio, such as NBC studios, behind Rockefeller Center. Visit the control room, the set of the Today Show, and learn about blue screen technology with one the interactive displays. (If you’re lucky, you might even catch the Saturday Night Live cast and crew in rehearsal!)
 
►Tour Yankee Stadium and other student-pleasing activities. Meet an actor, singer, musician, or dancer. Take a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Ride the subways. Learn how to cook, attend Gospel services, or go on city scavenger hunt.
 
►New York City “must do” activities are also available, such as attending a Broadway show or going to the “Top of the Rock”. New York City’s world renowned museums of art, culture, history, science, finance, and music provide students with an in-depth educational experience.
 
►Choose from several hotels in New York or New Jersey to meet the needs of your group, and your budget. Travel on foot, by motorcoach, or even by subway.

Day Trips

Day trips  are great fit for student groups  looking to supplement their own sightseeing plans with an insider’s tour of the city or an in-depth theme tour. For example, if your group plans to see a Broadway show in the evening, you may enjoy a half-day themed tour in the morning.   The also serve as excellent supplements to your group’s curriculum, allowing students to experience firsthand the places they read about and discuss in class.  Popular day trip itineraries include a Jazz Tour, Business Tour, and two history tours: Immigrant History Tour and the Revolutionary War History Tour.

 
Jazz Tour
Indigenous to the United States, jazz has influenced music throughout the world. New York City became the center of the jazz world in the 1920s, when greats like Duke Ellington played at the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and other legendary venues in Harlem.  
Our fully guided, four-hour group student tour of New York City’s jazz scene centers on Harlem, where jazz gained prominence during the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century. See famous jazz landmarks, and visit the exhibits at the New Jazz Hall of Fame. The highlight of the tour is a daytime jazz recital, also in Harlem.
 

 
Immigrant History Tour

This all-day, fully guided tour begins with a ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Opened in 1892, Ellis Island was the entry point for European immigrants for more than sixty years. Twelve million passed through the halls that are now the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.  
Students will have a chance to search for their own family names on the American Immigrant wall of Honor®, the longest wall of names in the world with over 600,000 names. After a tour of the Island and its exhibits, your guide will take you back to Manhattan for lunch in Little Italy.  
Rounding out your tour of immigrant life is a visit to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Designated a National Historic Site, the restored period apartments at 97 Orchard Street reveal life in the tenements in the late 19th century. 

Revolutionary War History Tour
New York City is rich in Revolutionary War History. Many battles took place on the hills in Brooklyn, on ships in the East River, and on the plains that  once comprised Manhattan Island long before modern skyscrapers dominated the landscape.  
This all-day, fully guided tour begins at the Old Stone House in trendy Park Slope, Brooklyn. Learn about the crucial battle fought at this Dutch farmhouse during the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn. From Brooklyn the tour moves on to Lower Manhattan and the New York Harbor, Greenwich Village, and Central Park.
In Harlem, a visit to the Morris-Jumel Mansion, George Washington’s headquarters during the fall of 1776, gives students a sense of life during Colonial times. A trip across the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey leads to the final stops on the tour, Fort Lee and Fort Washington.  
 
NYC Business
The financial capital of the world, New York City is rich in business and financial industry landmarks. From Wall Street to the World Trade Center site, students learn about the history of American finance.
This all-day, fully guided tour begins at the American Museum of Financial History. Located on Wall Street in the former Bank of New York building, the museum houses a collection of over 10,000 documents. A walking tour of the area around the New York Stock Exchange and The Federal Reserve also take place during the first part of the tour.