NYC Historical Walking Tours

Daniel Pecoraro is a historian based in New York City, focusing on urban history of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Daniel has served as a tour guide at the Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Museum of American Finance, has delivered tours as part of Jane's Walk NYC, volunteers at Interference Archive, contributes stories to Urban Archive, and has been a licensed sightseeing tour guide in the City of New York since 2019.

Daniel also serves as an Assistant Director of Programs at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. At the Institute, Daniel manages production of the Institute's highly popular Teacher Seminars offered each summer, along with various other professional development programs during the school year, and supervises two full-time staff members in the Institute's Educational Programs Department. From 2016 through October 2021, he was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Affiliate School Program, a network of over 36,000 K-12 schools worldwide, and coordinated monthly offerings to teachers, courses for middle and high school students and their families in the Gilder Lehrman History School program, and a series of essay contests which have served grades 2-12. In addition, he coordinated the Institute's internship program for high school and college students and was project lead on The Right to Vote: The Role of States and the US Constitution, a two-year project to develop a resource suite for high schools on the role of the states in determining and protecting voting rights. Presently, Daniel is leading development of a new AP African American Studies guide for students.

Daniel was previously the host of the quiz show The Thursday Trivia Podcast and infinitespace, a podcast on the connection between cities and art, and was part of the 2016 cohort of the Brooklyn Public Library's Bklyn Mixtape Podcast Club. He was also the curator of the Subway Music Archive, which documented subway musicians in New York City and Rome and exhibited at Macaulay Honors College. His written work can be found on the blog and in the pages of MovieJawn, the Philadelphia–based film zine.

Finally, Daniel appeared on the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2011, NPR's Ask Me Another in 2014, and Jeopardy! in September 2021 (losing to superchamp Matt Amodio in the process).

(Photo by Keavy Handley-Byrne)

For a taste of my tours, here's a feature from CUNY TV's Urban U series below.