March10
January 23rd, 2003
From Salon.com
The most revolutionary proposal isn’t on the table of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. or the Port Authority or the governors of New York and New Jersey. It’s in a short film by Richard Linklater (best known as the director of “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused”) that premiered Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, exactly a week after the public hearings on the new WTC site proposals.
In the 20-minute film, “Live From Shiva’s Dancefloor,” Manhattan walking-tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch posits that the site should be turned into a park full of free-roaming American bison, popularly known as buffalo. “Sixteen acres of blazing green grass, a place for togetherness, healing out loud, and spontaneous culture,” says Levitch. “And in the middle of the park, the memorial should not be an inanimate slab of stone, but should have a heartbeat.” Thus, the buffalo.
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March10
Meet a man who has mastered the art of living in Manhattan without actually having a place of his own. Timothy “Speed” Levitch, New York’s loopiest and most eccentric tour bus guide to date.
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March10
April 23rd, 2009
From CitySnapshots.com
If you don’t know Timothy “Speed” Levitch, then you should. A New York legend, the double-decker tour guide turned documentary film subject is still exploring his love of New York history and sharing it with others.
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March10
November 25th, 2009
From Frank Beacham’s Journal
On Sunday afternoon, I was reminded of this again by Timothy “Speed” Levitch, the legendary New York City tour guide, who gave an Orson Welles tour of the Broadway area as a promotion for Me and Orson Welles, the new film opening this week. Though I had been an executive producer of Cradle Will Rock, a 1999 film about Orson, I had never walked the streets to see where Welles had actually worked.
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March10
February 27th, 2010
It’s a little after 2 p.m. The sun is shining as Timothy “Speed” Levitch and Gabe Williams stand at the corner of Broadway and Eighth Street. They are discussing the City Hall Addition, with its new, red bricks, and how it looks next to the Daniel Boone Building, with its old, yellow bricks.
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March2
Speed recently attended the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO. Read about his tour, “The Speculative Stroll: A Psychogeographic Walking Tour of Broadway.” According to Speed, “The tour guide is a visitor who needs direction.”
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January 23rd, 2003
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