Marc Kehoe has been a licensed NYC Tour guide for almost 10 years. He originated a history of Coney Island walking tour, and has custom-designed many walking and bus tours, notably a walking tour of the Fifth Ave Silk Stocking District for a group affiliated with the Art Gallery of Western Australia. This is his fifth year with Highly Rated Tours.
Kehoe greatly enjoys touring the city that he loves with visitors from the USA and other nations, and in spending time with these visitors.
He is passionate about the history, architecture and contemporary culture of the five boroughs — ask him any question regarding museums, shopping, food, etc.— he is ready to answer!
Kehoe studied painting and film making at The Maryland Institute, College of Art and at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Jack Stanley is an historian, author, teacher and lecturer in many diverse areas of expertise including American history, technological history, the history of sound recording, New York City, and world history in general. He has been on the history faculty of the prestigious York Preparatory School on Central Park West in New York City. He has been the Curator of The Thomas Edison Museum in Menlo Park for ten years. A well-known guest commentator on numerous television programs, including The History Channel, the Discovery Channel, PBS, among others, Mr. Stanley has also lectured at many universities around the world. An avid researcher and interviewer, over the years Jack has interviewed well over sixty presidents, politicians, news anchors, artists, performers and even astronauts for use in future publications.
A seventh-generation New Yorker, Jack takes special pride in revealing little known facts about the history of this most remarkable and complex city. We hope you can join him soon on one of his entertaining and informative tours. A recent tourist wrote “Jack Stanley was the highlight of our entire vacation”.