HIP HOP TOURS OF 'BOOGIE-DOWN BRONX'
By Robert

Classic icons like Times Square and the Empire State building are synonymous with sightseeing in New York, and on any given day the Macy's in midtown Manhattan is likely to be filled with more tourists than tax paying residents. But a new tour service developed by a native New Yorker aims to bring tourists to a part of the Big Apple rarely frequented by the tour busses: the Boogie-down Bronx.

Few New York guidebooks lend ink to the neighborhoods north of 96th street. The Rough Guide to New York City's upper Manhattan section typifies the travel industry's unenthusiastic view of the area: "Washington Heights is a patchy neighborhood with little in the way of attractions." As quoted recently in City Limits Magazine, Debra Harris, the Bronx-born mastermind behind Hush tours "says the tourism industry is missing a lucrative market by relegating Bronx culture to this sort of postscript."

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