Press & Media

...interviewed Jim Dykes on her show and dubbed him "The Celebrity Tour guide....just fabulous!"

Page Six -- Gossip -- September 21, 2008

Tourists' Luck -- Diana Taylor is a tourist attraction. Jim Dykes, New York City guide, was leading a group of out-of-towners down East 79th Street when the door of Mayor Bloomberg's elegant 1910 townhouse flew open - and out bolted the state banking superintendent in blue jeans, sneakers and tank top, headed to Central Park with two Labrador retrievers. The pooches pulled Taylor over to the group for a moment, and the tourists eagerly petted the tail-waggers. When Taylor moved on, Dykes announced, "You just met your first New York celebrity . . . that was a casually dressed Diana Taylor, our billionaire mayor's longtime girlfriend, walking her dogs." [read full article]

Page Six -- Gossip -- February 11, 2008
 

About adding to the tour a stop at Heath Ledger's apartment.[read full article]

SHOWBIZ SPY -- February 11, 2008
Being criticized adding to the tour a stop at Heath Ledger's apartment. [read full article]

COLLIDING CONTINTENTS blog (For the Adventurer Within)
-- February 4, 2008
Celebrity Tourism in Top Form [read full article]

Page Six -- Gossip -- November 11, 2007
 

About adding 965 Fifth Avenue to the tour, where broker-to-the-stars Linda Stein was recently bludgeoned to death. [read full article]

TIME OUT NEW YORK Magazine-Fall 2008---

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/68139/fall-walking-tours

August 22, 2007
About Jim's friend Bobby Beddia -- one of the two firefighters who died in the Deutsche Bank building blaze [read full article]

Liz Smith's syndicated column -- June 20, 1999

(when Steven Spielberg "tagged along" on Jim's walking tour)

Jim Dykes gave his group a bit more than the usual "and here's where so-and-so lives/lived/died/partied, etc." last Sunday. While Dykes and his passel of sightseers were going through exclusive Beekman Place, a bearded man in bright orange jogging pants and a baseball cap interrupted the guides' chat--saying "Aren't you going to tell them that Steven Spielberg lives here?" He pointed to one of the townhouses. It took only a few moments for the crowd to realize that the bearded man was Spielberg himself, obviously happy with the knowledge that even as he stood there on the streets of New York, his latest film was amassing a staggering $50 million weekend take!

Page Six -- Gossip -- Jan. 15, 2003

Julia Roberts and hubby Danny Moder were spotted exiting the Chelsea Clearview Cinemas hand-in-hand, giving a thrill to a group of people on a walking tour led by veteran guide Jim Dykes.

JOAN HAMBURG (New York's WOR Radio consumer reporter)

...has recommended Jim Dykes of Rich and Famous Tours many, many times on her radio show

Peechy Deegan's Whom You Know profiled Jim on Sept. 1, 2009:

 [read full article]