Uncle Sam's New York

Uncle Sam’s New York is one of New York City’s walking tour, pub crawl and nightlife tour companies. Founded in 2009 by Samuel P.N. Cook, also known as Sam Cook the company has aggressively expanded and is a well known destination for tourists worldwide. The Daily News hailed Uncle Sam’s New York as a walking tour company that has “something for everyone”. TimeOut New York also has praised their pub crawls as being affordable and fun trips through Manhattan's past.

Uncle Sam’s New York Tours is the flagship enterprise of Uncle Sam’s USA, catering to tourists from around the world.
The company specializes in historical walking tours, cultural pub crawls, and night club tours in New York City. The company consists of a staff that conducts sales, marketing, and administration, and tours are administered by licensed New York City tour guides, many of whom have extensive acting and theater backgrounds. The company started offering daily tours in 2009, maintains relationships with major tourism companies, including Expedia, Travelocity, Virgin Holidays, Gulliver’s Travel (GTA), the New York Pass, and Greyline and CitySights NY bus companies.

Uncle Sam’s New York conducts classic neighborhood tours of New York City’s largest destination neighborhoods for tourists, including a daily Broadway Theater District Walking Tour, a Greenwich Village Walking Tour themed along the life of Edgar Allan Poe, a twice daily Financial District walking tour themed along the life of Alexander Hamilton, and a Heroes of the World Trade Center Walking tour that features stories of the heroism from 9/11/2001, and the events that followed its aftermath, including Rick Rescorla, Willie Rodriguez, and Pat Tillman.

Uncle Sam’s New York is the first tour company in New York City to conduct nightlife entertainment tours. Uncle Sam’s New York offers a nightly pub crawl in three different manhattan neighborhoods, including the East Village, the West Village, and Hell’s Kitchen. These pub crawls are focused on the history and culture of New York City’s oldest and most colorful bars, and mix history with sampling local brews. The main purpose of the tours are to mix random groups of travelers in a social tour setting, allowing them to meet other travelers over drinks and stories of New York City history. Uncle Sam’s New York also offers night life entertainment in New York City’s top night clubs, including Marquee, M2 Ultralounge, Amnesia, and Pink NY. The nightclub tours are also social tours that bring younger party goers from across the world into a social group, and then into Manhattan’s top night clubs.