Molly Young wrote an outstanding review of her tour with Speed through Greenwich Village on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 for The Economist Magazine’s quarterly publication called “More Intelligent Life.”

In the article, she writes, “On a sunny Friday afternoon I found myself beneath the Washington Square Arch with the legend himself and nine other fans. ‘Real estate speculation,’ he began, ‘is the rudder of the boat of this story.’ And we were off. Levitch is one of those specialists whose impressive intellect has met its perfect match—the match, in this case, being New York City.

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* Photo Credit: Jill Van Buren Singletary

THERE’S STILL TIME TO ARRANGE A TOUR WITH SPEED over July 4th weekend!

Each walking tour is an hour and a half.

Midtown Rush Hour: We Are All One
Date: Monday, July 5th at 3pm|
Meeting Place: Grand Central Terminal|

Greenwich Village: Land of Neurotic Genius
Dates: July 2nd, 1pm; July 2nd 4pm; July 4th at 4pm|
Meeting Place: Washington Square Arch|

Central Park: Why This is Not Really a Public Park
Date: July 4th, 7pm (sunset tour)|
Meeting Place: Tecumseh Sherman equestrian statue|

Lower East Side: Assimilation Hurts
Date: July 2nd, 7pm|
Meeting Place: Nathan Straus Square|

Register online here or contact Speed at speedlevitchonline@gmail.com.

Private tours available.

Kids cruise for free!

Speed describes emotions expressed by water.

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• Speed’s Opening Monologue at True/False: Episode 1″
• Ode to Concrete, True/False Film Festival, Episond 2
• True/False Film Festival Opens to Enthusiastic Crowds
• Tripping Over Downtown

Speed Levitch performs a comparison of concrete to the epidermis of Columbia during his walking tour at the True/False Film Festival.

Related Articles:

• Speed’s Opening Monologue at True/False: Episode 1″
• True/False Film Festival Opens to Enthusiastic Crowds
• Tripping Over Downtown

Speed’s opening monologue during his walking tour of Columbia, MO. at the annual True/False Film Festival.

Related Articles:

• True/False Film Festival Opens to Enthusiastic Crowds
• Tripping Over Downtown

Speed sends a “thank you” to all the NY cruisers over July 4th!

Speed is available for walking tours or *step on’s for corporate bus tours. Each tour is 1 hour 30 minutes long.

Consider arranging a tour for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, or corporate tours.

Feel the need for SPEED!

Menu of New York Tours:

• Wall Street: “The Story of what happened to our intimacy”

Meeting Place: The front of Trinity Church on Wall Street and Broadway.

• Greenwich Village: “Landmark of Neurotic Genius”

Meeting Place: The Washington Square Arch in Washington Square Park.

• Midtown Rush Hour (shown above): “We Are All One”

Meeting Place: Grand Central Terminal at the information booth in the middle of the main concourse. It’s usually preferable to start that one between 3-5pm on a weekday

• Central Park: “Why This Is Not Really a Public Park”

Meeting Place: The Tecumseh Sherman equestrian statue,

on 5th Avenue between 59th and 60th streets.

• Lower East Side: “Assimilation Hurts”

Meeting Place: Nathan Straus Square, on East Broadway.

• Columbia University Quad

Meeting Place: Columbia University, Front Gates on 2960 Broadway

• Nathan Strauss Square

Meeting Place: Where the lower east side tour meets, is at the intersection of East Broadway and Rutgers, and is easily accessed because when you take the F Train and get out at the Rutgers Street Stop, when you come upstairs you’re standing right there at East Broadway and Rutgers.

Arrange a NY Tour:

Contact Speed at speedlevitchonline@gmail.com to reserve a place in a tour or arrange a private tour.

* Step on’s occur when a party has rented a vehicle, such as a limo, trolley, or bus, and the tour guide “steps on” to give a tour. These are common with wedding parties and corporate functions.

See Tour Terms & Conditions

February 27th, 2010

From ColumbiaMissourian.com

Timothy Speed Levitch explains the History of Alley A and its informal former name “Historic Clown Alley” during his walking tour of Broadway on Saturday. The tour, part of the True/False Film Fest, focused on little known facts about downtown Columbia and personal stories from Levitch.

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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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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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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.”

Read more about Speed’s Tour.