I’m Andy McNeil, a Brooklyn-based writer, historian, and licensed NYC tour guide. I write about New York City the same way I talk about it on my tours—casual, curious, and rooted in real places.

Most of my work focuses on the stories hiding in plain sight: the buildings you walk past every day, the streets with forgotten names, and the people who shaped the city long before it looked the way it does today. My goal is to make New York history feel less like a textbook and more like a walk around the neighborhood.