NY See ShowBiz!
Take our 4-hour New York entertainment tour. This tour visits many of the places in New York City made famous by television and the movies.
The NY See ShowBiz! Tour lasts approximately 4 hours. It starts every day at 2:30pm and launches from the Northwest corner of 50th Street and 7th Avenue. The tour costs $39.99 per person. We recommend that you purchase tickets in advance, because this tour sells out frequently.
Here are some highlights of the NY See Showbiz! Tour:
Sex & The City
See places Carrie and friends hang out. Where they ate cupcakes, where they shop, the art gallery in SoHo where Charlotte worked, the furniture shop where Aiden made furniture, and, of course, the Plaza Hotel.
The Plaza Hotel
See the world-famous hotel formerly owned by Donald Trump (how much money did he lose on that deal?). The Beatles stayed at the Plaza on their first trip to the USA. The Plaza made its major movie debut in the 1959 film North by Northwest. It was also a setting for Barefoot in the Park (1967), Funny Girl (1968), Plaza Suite (1971), The Way We Were (1973), Love at First Bite (1979), Arthur (1981), Cotton Club (1984), Brewster’s Millions (1985); the first two Crocodile Dundee movies, Big Business (1988), King of New York (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), It Could Happen to You (1994), Almost Famous (2000), and Inside the Osmonds (2001), and several episodes of The Sopranos (most notably “The Test Dream,” Season 5, Episode 11) feature scenes occurring in a suite at the Plaza. Nearby to the Plaza are Grand Army Plaza, Tiffany’s, FAO Schwartz, the New York Apple Store, and Central Park.
Seinfeld
See the diner Jerry and friends hung out in, the location where the original soup nazi store used to be, and other New York City sites made famous by the TV Show.
Friends
See the coffee shop the Central Perk was modeled after as well as other New York sites made famous by Friends.
Trump Tower
See Trump Tower, the site where The Apprentice is filmed. We’ll also show you other sites from the show, and finally answer the question of whether The Donald wears a rug or if his hair is natural.
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios and the famous skating rink. It also houses the Rainbow Room, the Top of the Rock Observation Deck (call us for tickets!), 30 Rock, and the NBC Store. See the Today Show set while you are there.
Times Square
The tour starts in Times Square. We’ll show you “The Ball” that is lowered every New Year’s Eve, the set of Good Morning America, MTV Studios, several Broadway Theaters, the NASDAQ Market Site, the M&M Store, Hershey’s Times Square, and ESPN Zone. You’ll also see Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, which is full of wax lookalikes of celebrities (call us for tickets!). Times Square is also the location of Planet Hollywood (call us for discounts!), the Hard Rock Cafe, Dave & Busters, and the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. It also has more neon per square foot of any place in the world.
The Late Show
— See the Ed Sullivan Theater where David Letterman’s show is broadcast. Will give you some of the secrets of how to get tickets to see the show live. We can’t promise you’ll get in, but we can improve your chances.
The Ghostbusters Building
See the building Sigourney Weaver lived in and where the Ghostbusters made their last stand.
Entertainment Icons
See Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the Lincoln Center, and numerous Broadway theaters.
The Dakota Building
See the building where Yoko Ono lives and where John Lennon was shot.
Learn insiders’ secrets
We’ll tell you the best places to find celebrities, how to get tickets to be in the studio audiences of many live shows, and much more!
TV & Movie Sites
See sites from Superman, Spiderman, NYPD Blue, Big, Brewster’s Millions, Hitch, Men In Black, Wall Street, Sleepless in Seattle, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and more. If you want to see the best entertainment sites in New York City, take the NY See ShowBiz! Tour with OnBoard Tours!
The NY See ShowBiz! Tour lasts approximately 4 hours. It starts every day at 2:30pm and launches from the Northwest corner of 50th Street and 7th Avenue. The tour costs $39.99 per person.
