Exclusive | NYCs longest-serving tour guide once took Friends star David Schwimmer around and got more looks than he did

As New York City’s longest-serving tour guide, Joyce Gold has become such a local celebrity that she sometimes gets more attention than the stars she ushers around the Big Apple.It happened while the 81-year-old guide, who has been giving tours of Manhattan for nearly 50 years, was leading David Schwimmer around on a private tour.“I think he was feeling bad, because he is incredibly more famous than I am.But they sort of expect to see me on the streets of the Village because I’m there a lot, and nobody expected to see him,” Gold told The Post.“So finally, he went into Mamoun’s [Falafel] and they recognized him, so I think he felt better.

But I did feel a little guilty about how happy that whole incident made me.”The “Friends” star, who now resides in the East Village, purchased the tour — the Immigrant, Radical, Notorious Women of Washington Square — in 2008 for the birthday of his then-fiancée, artist Zoë Buckman, who is now his ex-wife and mother of his daughter, Cleo.“And I always thought a lot of him for choosing my women’s tour,” said Gold, who started giving tours in 1976.

Language learning platform Babbel consulted with the nonprofit Guides Association of New York City to determine that Gold is the most tenured guide in all five boroughs.Her foray into the industry began while she was working as a systems analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank on Gold Street, and stumbled upon a book about old New York.“It was about the streets I passed every day between the subway and the office.

And I had no idea there were Indians on Broadway, there were Dutch, English,” recalled Gold, a graduate of Queens College who earned a master’s in metropolitan studies from New York University.“When I read that the first battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Golden Hill, started on the side of my cubicle, it was really amazing.”The Pennsylvania native, who moved to Bayside, Queens in the ninth grade, conducted her first-ever tour ...