Classic Harbor Line

We had a wonderful time on the AIA boat tour. The narration was so informative - it really brought the iconic NYC buildings we have long loved and admired to life. The boat was comfortable and the whole experience felt very luxurious.

Lively and informative descriptions of many of NYC's most important buildings.

The lecturer was so informative and and a pleasure to listen to. The crew was very helpful and although one cannot order the weather we had a beautiful, clear day, which made it even more interesting.

very good tour!!!

We had an amazing time on our sunset sail. The crew was lovely and the other guests aboard were so friendly. In fact, we made new friends. I highly recommend this experience for tourists (though it doesn't feel touristy) and locals alike. There was also a nice selection of locally brewed beer.

Had a great time and really learned a lot! Very knowledgeable tour guide and crew. I took a guest from out of town, and would definitely do it again with future guests.

Already took this tour twice and likely there is going to be a third time

A beautiful boat; great staff and superb guide. I think my wife and I were the only locals on the boat but we certainly got a huge amount out of this. I wouldn't recommend this for children, but for adults looking for a unique view of NYC I wouldn't miss. It might seem a bit expensive, but the small boat, snacks, drinks and general high quality make this well worth it.

It was an excellent sunny day. The staff and leaders of the tour were professional, friendly and well informed. I also felt quite safe on the boat in the rivers.

I did a lot in my week in New York City. If I hAd a chance to repeat the activities, this would be at the top of the list. The commentator spoke non stop (but conversation with people was possible), identifying buildings and the architects, speaking about each of the bridges we went under, activities of the city in establishing parks, and more. Visibility from any of the seats is not an issue.It was a great trip!

My wife and I booked the Sunset Sail and it exceeded our expectations. The Adirondack was immaculate and well maintained, it's captain and crew were knowledgable and friendly and the sailing was wonderful. We had perfect sailing weather, a beautiful sunset and thoroughly enjoyed every minute on board. We have already highly recommended this event to others and will continue to do so. Worth every penny!!

It is several years since I took a tour around Manhattan. In the meantime much has changed. All this was explained in very interesting fashion by our two commentators. The boat is delightful and very comfortable. This is an ideal tour to take visitors to NYC on, particularly if they have an interest in architecture.

A relatively small boat provides an intimate milieu. Refreshments are very nice. Guide is extremely knowledgeable.

I took my boyfriend for his birthday and it was suoer romantic I would definitely go again

Your inquiry relates to the ticket I recently bought for a guest, Kenny Hersey of Salem, New York, otherwise a Verizon linesman in the city for three weeks with Sandy repairs. I am offering a review of the boat trip I took in late September with my sister. At the end of the tour the guide mentioned that there were to be occasional tours concentrating on infrastructure, and I would very much like to get a schedule of when they are occurring. It could be very helpful to me intellectually to participate in such a tour. As for the tour I took, we had a maybe fifteen-minute wait in the Hudson, before entering the Harlem River, because the swing bridge had not opened. That was very felicitous. During the tour/passage I wanted to be out on the deck, partially to take pictures. The waiting time allowed me to come into the cabin/lounge and partake of your fine snacks. So this wait suggests a better tour might have an intermission, without more information being proffered, in fact a surcease. You may say the boat trip has labor costs and you cannot tolerate a stoppage or greater length (at sea). Sometimes and in some places the seas might be too choppy for just sitting/standing/not going anywhere. The thing that I got from the tour, and for me was unexpected, was the prominence and amount of public housing. I don't think of public housing being part of the city skyline, but along the Harlem and East Rivers it was seen in some abundance, even monumentally in clusters. One thing the guide(s) might do a bit more with is to indicate. occasionally, historical evolution: for example,the Brooklyn bridge preceded by Robert Fulton's famous steam ferry., that the shoreline of the Lower East Side was once a center of American shipbuilding. That is to say: a stupid point needs to reiterated again and again: which is what one sees now is not the way it always was. For instance, up until the mid-nineteenth century the highest objects were ship's masts and church steeples. Another dumb point which may have gone unmentioned is rip-rapping, pile driving, the increasingly hard edge between land and sea. and how it is that so much of the present shoreline, especially around Lower Manhattan is landfill. And this landfill and these hard edges not conducive to spreading out or absorbing storm surges--and was it up on the east side of the Morningside Heights, near Stern's little new boathouse, that a restoration of salt marsh was pointed out. (That was a wonderful surcease from purely architectural information.) In this regard maybe more could be done with physiography, how the deeper Triassic bedrock around Greenwich Village, say, precludes the easy erection of skyscrapers--and hence how, arguably, the two loci of skyscrapers may be physiographically determined by the proximity of bedrock to the surface. I could go on. But the tour is very much worth $75.