October 23rd, 1998

From The New York Times

Timothy (Speed) Levitch, the loquacious New York City tour-bus guide, sidewalk philosopher and one-man almanac of urban lore profiled in Bennett Miller’s compelling documentary film ”The Cruise,” is a man who enjoys making himself dizzy. One of his favorite activities, he confides, is to spin around under the twin towers of the World Trade Center and, when thoroughly disoriented, to look up and reel under the illusion that the buildings are toppling down on him.

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April 27th, 2009

From AHistoryOfNewYork.com

Bryan began his lecture on Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America today with a brief clip from the video of the “Central Park Sunset Tour” that Timothy “Speed” Levitch took us on three years ago. By that time, we’d been showing excerpts from The Cruise, Bennett Miller’s documentary about Levitch and his Grayline bus tours, for a couple of years, and when when of our TA’s turned out to have a connection Levitch and found out that he was going to be in town . . . well, we jumped at the chance to have him lead us and some of our students on our tour.

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