Longtime New Yorker Matthew has been guiding tours for 11 years and has served three terms on the board of the Guides Association of New York City (including the 2014-2015 presidency). Before discovering the wonderful world of tourism, Matt worked in many of the performing arts, earning an income in the theatre, movies, music, and even magic. He has also held jobs in such varied and famous establishments as Saks Fifth Avenue, the New York Public Library, and FAO Schwarz. While he tours by bus, boat, subway, and pretty much every other conveyance, his favorite way to tour is on foot, “For only by walking the famed and fabled sidewalks of New York do you become, for however brief a time, a New Yorker. And there is no substitute in all the world for that.”