New York City 5 Borough Atlas (Hagstrom New York City Five Borough Atlas (Spiral/Laminated)) [Spiral-bound]

Hagstrom Map Company (Author)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound
• Publisher: Hagstrom Map Co. (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880978929
• ISBN-13: 978-0880978927
• Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 10.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,291,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bring back the hand drawn Hagstroms!!! This is inaccurate!!, September 10, 2004

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N. A Wheeler (Bronx, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New York City 5 Borough Atlas (Hagstrom New York City Five Borough Atlas (Spiral/Laminated)) (Spiral-bound)

Isn't the purpose of a map to tell you how to get from point A to point B?? Well don't count of this new computerized Hagstrom version too much... unless you've got some kind of magic car.

I don't want you to think I am exaggerating. So I am going to enumerate the mistakes I found in two neighborhoods that I have lived in, Washington Heights (181st St area) and Riverdale (Kappock St area).

Washington Heights / W. 181st St.
* Pinehurst Ave between 181st St and W. 183rd St: don't try driving down this street. It's a set of stairs. Check the old Hagstrom (COH)!
* 187th St. between Overlook Terrace and Fort Washington Avenue: that's a longer set of stairs. Look out. (Old Haggy got this wrong also.)
* Mess of entrance/exit ramps just south of 181st St at Cabrini: don't even try to figure these out without going back to your old Hagstrom. Traffic flow directional arrows, people!! And don't try to get onto the ramp from that 179th St entrance...
* Chittenden Avenue: uh... most of what is shown as here as Chittenden is actually woods. COH
* And the best... Riverside Drive shown north of 181st St... IT DOESN'T EXIST!! What there actually is is an entrance ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway... an entrance that is not shown here!!

Riverdale at Kappock St.
* 227th from Netherland to Johnson Ave: doesn't exist.
* Independence from Palisades to Kappock: not shown, DOES exist.
* Palisades from Bradley Terrace (doesn't exist) to, well, Palisades Ave: not shown, DOES exist.
* Henry Hudson Parkway access road south of 232nd St: uh, there's an entrance ramp here. And an exit. They did add some exit numbers but it's pretty damn difficult to tell where you get on and off, and there's at least one entrance/exit shown that doesn't exist.

In short... I can't this book to get me around my own neighborhood. Do you think I am going to rely on this to get me around Brooklyn? Are you nuts??? Hagstrom, what has happened to you?