New York · BROOKLYN STREET ART TOURS
The 9 best brooklyn street art tours you can book today, with what each costs, how long it runs and who it suits. Number one is top for a reason, so start there.
Meet artists such as Ghost, Leaf, or Ghost Face Mims at a Bushwick studio for a one-hour graffiti lesson. Learn spray-can control, lettering, shading, and color, then help create a wall piece. Choose the canvas option if you want original art to take home.
“Quite an authentic venue in the right area. A big thumbs up!!!”
Meet your English-speaking guide at Wyckoff-Starr Coffee Shop and spend two hours exploring Bushwick’s changing street-art scene. Learn about local and international artists, mural techniques, graffiti culture, and neighborhood history while seeing major works around the Bushwick Collective.
“Nick was passionate, professional, creative. It was a great tour”
Walk Bushwick’s famous mural district with an artist guide, often Audrey, and learn how graffiti and street art developed. In 90 minutes, you’ll see more than 20 painted warehouses, hear stories about artists including Jason Naylor and Icy and Sot, and cover only a few compact blocks.
“A fantastic tour. Our guide, she was superb! Really knowledgeable with a great sense of humour. Highly recommended”
At Graff Tours in Bushwick, you’ll learn aerosol techniques from NYC graffiti artists such as Leaf, Ghost, and Mims. Practice on a wall, create a personal canvas, and take your work home. The one-hour class welcomes beginners, families, teens, and adults, with groups capped at six.
“Entertaining! Fun! Educational! Leaf, our guide to graffiti was awesome! We showed up, Felt welcomed, we knew nothing about graffiti and it was perfectly fine. We took away our graffiti, Leaf is very encouraging and guided and assisted us the entire way!”
Walk Bushwick with a local guide and study murals, tags, stencils, wheatpaste, trucks, and street signs. Guides such as Nick, Caty, Jeff, and Slava have explained artist styles, the Bushwick Collective, and neighborhood change. The two-hour route begins at 30 Wyckoff Ave and ends near the meeting point.
“Amazing experience - knowledgeable guide and interesting tour. The weather wasn’t great and it was raining but it was still worth it.”
Spend 90 minutes walking Bushwick with a working street artist and a group of no more than 10 people. Starting at 282 Meserole Street, you’ll see more than 50 Bushwick Collective murals and learn about artists, techniques, local culture, and New York’s graffiti story. The tour runs in English and returns to its starting point.
“Informative and fun walking tour! We learned about the different types of street art and saw beautiful graffiti projects”
Spend five hours with Careri Entertainment exploring Hell’s Kitchen, Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn through hip-hop, crime stories, murals, film sites, Yankee Stadium, and the Apollo Theater. Guides such as Louie, Alex, Jose, Kent, and Alexander lead the route in English, Italian, Spanish, or French.
“We had such a good day with our guide. We learned a ton and got to see a side of nyc we haven’t seen before. The tour was bilingual and he did such a good job switching between the Italian guest and us.”
Ride through five New York districts with a Spanish-speaking guide such as José or Rafael. Stop at the Apollo, Yankee Stadium, Joker stairs, Unisphere, Hasidic Williamsburg, and Bushwick murals, with photo time and a choice of Dumbo or Chinatown at the end.
“Wonderful experience with the Spanish tour guide. Everything was explained in-detail; all the locations are extremely interesting and they represent how a real day-to-day life looks like in NYC. Shout out to the guide who was very patient when it comes to the photo/video session, he took top-notch pictures of me in all the neighbourhoods. It's 100% worth the money. Absolutely recommended!”
Walk through Bushwick’s open-air street art scene and Williamsburg’s cafés, vintage shops, and creative corners with a French guide such as Fred, Guillaume, Elsa, or Aymeric. This 3.5-hour tour ends near Bedford Avenue and includes a subway transfer between neighborhoods.
“Many thanks to the entire New York City team in French for the wonderful tour of East Williamsburg accompanied by an exciting street art workshop. We had a unique and creative experience with Guillaume, our guide, whose pasRead moreAuto-translated”
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