Matt Levy
Matt Levy is a born and bred Brooklynite (REPRESENT!) who has made an art of learning this city inside and out. In 2003 Matt joined his father in the family business of The Levys’ Unique New York! and became an equal partner in 2010.
Matt’s unbridled excitement for New York City’s history, architecture, culture and energy has made him an expert in all things NYC, especially architecture, punk rock history, Brooklyn’s brewing history, and street art and graffiti. Matt has been pictured and quoted in the New York Times, Time Out New York, the Daily News, Metromix.com and other NYC blogs as an expert New York City tour guide and font of information. As a freelance journalist he has also written articles about New York City for The L Magazine, MetroMix.com, and other NYC blogs, but most frequently on the blog, www.levysuniqueny.com/blog.
To give back to the city he loves so much, Matt is on the board of The City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization, first as Events Coordinator and as of 2011, Vice President. The City Reliquary collects artifacts and ephemera from the five boroughs.
Matt’s passion for old street signs and new street corners all started in the loving, lively and high-energy Levy household in the beautiful Ditmas Park West neighborhood in the heart of Brooklyn. After his mother Ruth Weiss passed away in 1998, he wrote a eulogy titled “Encompass the Light” which won him a $10,000 college scholarship. Matt has his BA in Performance Art / Poetry, which is really to say that he has a degree in Being Matt Levy. Which he’s exceptionally good at.
