Learning a new city can be a little much for some.

Brent Crook’s job is to make the process less overwhelming for visitors coming to New York City.

“It’s mostly just explaining where we are, what can I tell them about this neighborhood and what we’re going to see next,” he said.

Crook has been a Big Apple Greeter since 2013. The organization sends volunteers to welcome tourists to the city for free.

“I think when we’re done I think they feel like they have a friend in New York and they feel much more comfortable,” he said.

When Crook spoke with NY1, he was greeting the Heitsch family from Germany.

The tour started off at the family’s Midtown hotel with an introduction to one of the most important tools in a New York tourist playbook — a subway map.

They then walked down to Hudson Yards, the High Line, Chelsea Market and through Greenwich Village to Washington Square Park.

One would think Crook is a tour guide, but he insists he is not.

“It’s like we have a relative who we’ve never seen before coming to the City and we’re now helping them orient themselves,” he said.

“We have seen things we wouldn’t have seen if we just walk around,” Hendrik Heitsch, one of the tourists Crook greeted, said.

Crook’s favorite places to show tourists are Greenwich Village and the western parts of Brooklyn.

The Washington Heights resident says it’s about introducing his hometown to visitors and quashing a certain stereotype.

“I hope it just dispels any myths that they may have heard about how New Yorkers aren’t friendly or New Yorkers are in too much of a hurry to help them,” Crook said.

“For me to be able to know, learn their stories and connect with them and learn about their cultures as well as me show off New York, is a wonderful sort of a two-way street,” he added.

For sharing New York City’s streets with the people who come to visit, Brent Crook is our New Yorker of the Week.