Couple walking Upper East Side during PhotoTrek Tours

When sightseeing in NYC people often only make the time to visit the more well known tourist attractions such as The Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and Times Square, to name a few.  During our private walking tours, we try to take people off the beaten path and get them into the smaller neighborhoods such as SoHo, The West Village and Upper East Side.  In these locations you will get a better sense of a quieter, less traveled part of NYC.

When visiting NYC try to take some time away from the main tourist attractions to visit the smaller, less traveled locations.

PhotoTrek Tours captures your Hoenymoon in NYC

Just a few suggestions for those of you readers who are planning to visit New York City as your honeymoon destination.  There are a multitude of options available to remember your honeymoon.

An original and unique activity when visiting NYC is to   experience  PhotoTrek Tours.  During this private walking tour of NYC, guests are captured in their own photos with iconic New York landmarks as the backdrop;  locations can include Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square & Grand Central Terminal to name a few destinations during the 2 or 3 hour tour.

The tour is a wonderful way to capture wonderful memories of your visit to New York while also getting insights on sightseeing for the rest of your holiday.  Your guide/photographer will make recommendations for shopping, dining, nightlife and off the beaten path locations to explore during your visit.

From February 25 to March 7, The Shops at Columbus Circle will host Meet the Oscars,® a rare opportunity for awards junkies to get acquainted with the famous golden trophy. Have your photo taken while holding a real Oscar.    It is a great way to capture some wonderful memories of yourself here in NYC.

Columbus Circle is at the southeast corner of Central Park, near the historic brownstones of the upper west side and and steps from Broadway & Times Square.

Fashion week goes from February 9 – 16, 2012.

For the second year running, Fashion Week will be held at historic Lincoln Center.  For those looking to do sightseeing in NYC, nearby  locations include  Columbus Circle, Central Park, The Museum of Natural History and so many other iconic New York landmarks.

Tonic Times Square, 727 7th Avenue

Dalton’s 619 9th Avenue (Between 43rd & 44th Street)

The morning may be spent walking around Central Park, Brooklyn Heights Promenade or Greenwich Village to name a few locations.  You may also want to consider taking in the New York City skyline on the Staten Island Ferry.

The Metropolitan Pavilion transforms into a vintage-lover’s dream, when nearly 90 vintage clothing and textile dealers take over for two days. And while sifting through dresses, shoes and accessories from decades past provides entertainment aplenty, the show also includes a formal exhibition, Christian Lacroix: Darling of Outrageous Excess.

Located at  Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 W. 18th St., you are in close proximaty to several other NYC venues.  Perhaps you may want to walk over to The Chelsea Market, walk over to Union Square, view the Flatiron building or explore Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park as a few suggestions.

From January 20-26, 2012, not only will you see all the usual highlights of Grand Central, but there is also a world class squash tournament going on, completely free to view.  A court and seating is constructed inside beautiful Vanderbilt Hall.  Try to make the time to catch the action.

After viewing the action, you can take the NYC  subway uptown to Museum Mile, Central Park, FAO Schwarz or other New York City attractions.  If you opt to go downtown you can head to The Brooklyn Bridge, Union Square Park, Wall Street or The Statue of Liberty.

Either way, it provides not only a great venue for the tournament but ideally situated to continue your sightseeing in NYC.

Beginning January 20, the International Center of Photography presents four new exhibitions will be of interest to both professional and amateur  photographers alike.  Weegee: Murder Is My Business (on view through September 2) highlights the work of one of the most relentlessly inventive figures in American photography, whose dramatic and often lurid photographs of New York crimes and news events set the standard for what has become known as tabloid journalism. The Loving Story showcases photography by Grey Villet that documents the story of the couple who was instrumental in overturning all race-based marriage bans in 1967. Magnum Contact Sheets explores how Magnum photographers have captured and edited their best shots from the 1930s to the present. And, finally, Perspectives 2012 focuses on emerging young artists working in photography and video in a non-thematic series of group exhibitions.

Located in the heart of midtown Manhattan, only steps from Bryant Park, Grand Central Station, Times Square and so many other New York City landmarks.