Citytripping: New York for Nighthawks, Foodies, Culture Vultures, Fashion Fetishists Downtown Addicts & the Generally Style-Obsessed [Paperback]

Tom Dolby (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A brilliant guide to what's cool." -- Vanessa Grigoriadis, New York Magazine

"A fabulous downtown reference for the under-30 set." -- Michael Musto, The Village Voice

"A must-have for anyone in their teens and 20s who wants to be on top of a city known to crush its fair share of people." -- XY Magazine

"Informative, colorful, and exciting, with real insights into what it's like to be young in New York. I've recommended it to all my friends!" -- David Lauren, Swing Magazine

CityTripping is "the hippest, smartest, funniest guide to the city we've ever seen." -- Where Magazine New York, October 1998

About the Author

Tom Dolby has written for The Village Voice and Time Out New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: City & Co; 1st edition (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885492510
• ISBN-13: 978-1885492517
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,051,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tom Dolby is the author of the young adult novels Secret Society and The Trust: A Secret Society Novel, as well as the best-selling novel The Trouble Boy and the boarding school novel The Sixth Form. He is also the co-editor, with Melissa de la Cruz, of the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Tom was born in London and raised in San Francisco, and is a graduate of Yale University. He currently lives in Manhattan, where he is working on his fifth novel, among other projects. You can find him online at www.tomdolby.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, great website, great concept, June 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Citytripping: New York for Nighthawks, Foodies, Culture Vultures, Fashion Fetishists Downtown Addicts & the Generally Style-Obsessed (Paperback)

The best thing about this book is that the author is just a normal guy like you and me; he doesn't have to try to sound savvy or hip. This book is like having a cool best friend take you around the city. I refer to it whenever I want to go out on the town, especially downtown.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource for young tourists and denizens alike, January 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Citytripping: New York for Nighthawks, Foodies, Culture Vultures, Fashion Fetishists Downtown Addicts & the Generally Style-Obsessed (Paperback)

If you're not so much interested in how to beat the lines at the Statue of Liberty, and more attuned to where you can sip Long Island Ice Teas while staring at bona fide fashion models and New York's notoriously secretive cognoscenti, this book is for you. Much more than a guide to the city's geography, it is a rare insight into the raison d'etre of the au courant. Forget Fodor's, Let's Go, and all the broad-spectrum filth. Finally, there is a book for the people who need it. Anyone can see the Statue of Liberty from miles away. Citytripping goes below the surface.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, December 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Citytripping: New York for Nighthawks, Foodies, Culture Vultures, Fashion Fetishists Downtown Addicts & the Generally Style-Obsessed (Paperback)

I have never seen a guidebook quite like this before. It is both informative and amusing. I would recommend that anybody interested in going to New York City for the first time buy it. I did. I found it by randomly scanning through amazon's New York City guidebooks. What caught my eye is the approach that this book takes that is different than most of the other guidebooks. This book really is targeted at people who want to do things in New York that locals, not visitors, usually do. I met a lot of interesting people going to the recommended restaurants in this book. There is absolutely no way that either my girlfriend or I could have found out about all of the stuff in this book. The concierge at our hotel even wrote down some recommendations for his own records!