Daniel Pecoraro | Historical Tours


NYC Historical Walking Tours




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The Bridges of Gowanus




How did a natural creek become a canal?
how did it become one of the most polluted sites in New York City?
and how is it, in spite of the pollution, becoming one of the hottest neighborhoods in which to reside? Find out on this walk.


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Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn:
Slavery and Abolition
in Kings County




Explore Brook'lyn's role in slavery and freedom
by visiting the sites where frederick douglass spoke


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Greenwich Village: Activists and Agitators





The story of Change Agents, Community Organizers, and Human Forces
in greenwich Village, from the Lenape to Stonewall to the Present.


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Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park, and LGBTQS Lives in Brooklyn and New York





Part 1 of my two-part tour of Green-Wood cemetery, highlighting key stories and sights in Brooklyn's largest cemetery.


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The Lost Theaters of Bay Ridge





My first tour featuring the neighborhood i've called home
for nearly a decade, focusing on the former movie palaces
in bay ridge and the history of New York at the movies.


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The Lower East Side:
History and Foodways




Take part in the culture of the les
and explore its contributions to the city's history


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The Meatpacking District and Chelsea




Explore the Changing hudson river waterfront
as it undergoes major changes


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I'm a lifelong New Yorker with a passion for telling its story. Join me on a walking tour of New York's past, present, and future, either among the list of tours above or a custom tour of your choosing.



Non-Profit Manager Historian
Tour Guide
Audio Producer
Game Show Guy



Daniel Pecoraro is a historian based in New York City, focusing on urban history of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Daniel has served as a tour guide at the Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Museum of American Finance, has delivered tours as part of Jane's Walk NYC, volunteers at Interference Archive, contributes stories to Urban Archive, and as of fall 2019 is a licensed sightseeing tour guide in the City of New York.


Daniel also serves as a Senior Program Manager at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. At the Institute, Daniel manages production of the Institute's highly popular Teacher Seminars offered each summer along with various other professional development programs, such as the Institute's How Did We Get Here? virtual PD series, and supervises two full-time staff members in the Institute's Educational Programs Department. From 2016 through October 2021, he was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Affiliate School Program, a network of over 30,000 K-12 schools worldwide, and coordinated monthly offerings to teachers, courses for middle and high school students and their families in the Gilder Lehrman History School program, and a series of essay contests which have served grades 2-12. In addition, he coordinated the Institute's internship program for high school and college students, a National Academy of American History and Civics for high school juniors and seniors.


Daniel was previously the host of the quiz show The Thursday Trivia Podcast and infinitespace, a podcast on the connection between cities and art, and was part of the 2016 cohort of the Brooklyn Public Library's Bklyn Mixtape Podcast Club. He was also the curator of the Subway Music Archive, which documented subway musicians in New York City and Rome and exhibited at Macaulay Honors College. Presently Daniel takes on (very) infrequent freelance audio production projects.


Finally, Daniel appeared on the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2011, NPR's Ask Me Another in 2014, and most recently went toe-to-toe with superchamp Matt Amodio on Jeopardy! in September 2021.


(Photo by Chrisinda Lynch)