Fodor's New York City 2001: Completely Updated Every Year, Color Photos and Pull-Out Map, Smart Travel Tips from A to Z (Fodor's Gold Guides) [Paperback]

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Series: Fodor's Gold Guides | Publication Date: August 29, 2000

Fodor's New York City 2001"Fodor's guides cover culture authoritatively and rarely miss a sight or museum." - National Geographic Traveler

"The king of guidebooks." - Newsweek

No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go.

New for 2001! Your personal supply of Post-it® flags makes it easy to mark your favorite listings and keep track of frequently used pages.

Color planning sections help you decide where to go with citywide virtual tours and cross-referencing to the main text.

Full-size, foldout map keeps you on course.

Insider info that's totally up to date. Every year our local experts give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun.

Hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special.

Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice--from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency.

We've compiled a helpful list of guidebooks that complement Fodor's New York City 2001. To learn more about them, just enter the title in the keyword search box.Fodor's Citypack New York: A full-color pocket-size guidebook and a full-size color map, all in one sturdy plastic sleeve.Fodor's upCLOSE New York City; Designed for travelers who want to travel well and spend less.Fodor's Exploring New York City: An information-rich cultural guide in full color.Fodor's To Go: 48 Hours in New York: A magnetic microbook conatining two smart itineraries to lead you to experience the best of New York in 48 hours.

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Fodor's New York City 2001"Fodor's guides cover culture authoritatively and rarely miss a sight or museum." - National Geographic Traveler

"The king of guidebooks." - Newsweek

No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go.

New for 2001! Your personal supply of Post-it® flags makes it easy to mark your favorite listings and keep track of frequently used pages.

Color planning sections help you decide where to go with citywide virtual tours and cross-referencing to the main text.

Full-size, foldout map keeps you on course.

Insider info that's totally up to date. Every year our local experts give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun.

Hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special.

Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice--from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency.

We've compiled a helpful list of guidebooks that complement Fodor's New York City 2001. To learn more about them, just enter the title in the keyword search box.Fodor's Citypack New York: A full-color pocket-size guidebook and a full-size color map, all in one sturdy plastic sleeve.Fodor's upCLOSE New York City; Designed for travelers who want to travel well and spend less.Fodor's Exploring New York City: An information-rich cultural guide in full color.Fodor's To Go: 48 Hours in New York: A magnetic microbook conatining two smart itineraries to lead you to experience the best of New York in 48 hours.

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DESTINATION NEW YORK CITY

It's been called the "greatest city in the world" so many times --- usually by its own politicians, its own media figures, its own men and women in the street --- that the claim may seem empty. But that slogan takes on new life when inverted: New York is civilization's greatest world within a city. It feels as though everything is here. It's not, of course, but that's a trifling observation. What truly matters is the overpowering impression that New York gives of being both a mirror and a magnet for all of humanity and all that humanity does. Come and see for yourself: New York is the world's beating heart.

New York on the Move

Even if some Hollywood renditions of New York cross the line into cliché, there's a lot of truth to the image of the city as elbow-to-elbow and high-voltage, seething with the nervous energy of so many people crowded into so little space. New York is a city of foot traffic, and walking -- say, along 5th Avenue -- is often the smartest way to get around, despite the crowds on the sidewalks. Except when stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic in Times Square or elsewhere, New Yorkers keep up a relentlessly brisk pace. Could anyone but a Zen master remain mellow at F.A.O. Schwarz, particularly during the Christmas shopping season, or meander languidly through Penn Station, Grand Central, or the subways at rush hour? On a turbulent trading day, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange is the scene of bellowing and flailing that suggest an aerobics class in hell. Thank goodness for green spaces like Central Park, Riverside Park, and Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where cars are sometimes banned, and a guy and his dog can own the road if they move fast enough.

Museums

New York's museums span interests from modern armaments -- at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, aboard a giant aircraft carrier -- to photography, film, and 20th-century painting and design at the Museum of Modern Art. If the city housed no other museum than the colossal Metropolitan Museum of Art, you would sense nothing amiss. You could spend whole years happily roaming its labyrinthine corridors and still not see it all. Some museums also distinguish themselves as works of architecture. Marcel Breuer designed the stark, square Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is Manhattan's only building by Frank Lloyd Wright. At the borough's northern tip the Cloisters was cleverly assembled from chunks of European monasteries to look like a monastery itself, a perfect showcase for one of the world's best collections of medieval art. Go on a weekday -- preferably a rainy one -- and you'll have the tranquil garden walkways a bit more to yourself. Equally unusual is the Frick Collection, in Henry Clay Frick's limestone 5th Avenue mansion. After the Frick there's the Museum of Television and Radio (a treasure), the American Museum of Natural History (an adventure), the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and many more. As a New Yorker might say, "You want museums? We got museums."


The City That Never Sleeps

If night is your element, New York is your playground -- and not just on Halloween, when the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade clogs 6th Avenue with some of the campiest, most outrageous street theater on any planet. This event will remind you, in case you'd forgotten, of New York artists' amazing creativity, their talent, and their passion for doing what it takes to make each performance the best. As examples, just watch the Rockettes high-kick at Radio City Music Hall or study the ballerinas fouetteing through performances at City Center, the Joyce Theater, or Lincoln Center's American Ballet Theatre or the New York City Ballet; the latter is famed for its phenomenal yuletide Nutcracker. Afterward, all over the Theater District and around Lincoln Center, restaurants are a clatter with late-night diners and bars are shoulder-to-shoulder and hip-to-hip. You might discuss the marvels you've just seen over expensive martinis and the suavest live piano music at a swank spot like the Carlyle Hotel's Bemelmans Bar. Or go catch a rising star or two at a comedy club. Hit the dance clubs, a rock dive, a cabaret, or a doormanned lounge. Or take in some R&B or salsa. If New York nights have a sound track, though, it's jazz.  Settle into a seat at any Manhattan jazz club and you will hear it -- the Village Vanguard is only one of the greats. When you start doing the town after dark in New York, you won't want the night to end.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; Pap/Map edition (August 29, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679005498
• ISBN-13: 978-0679005490
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,417,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't take it for granted, July 29, 2001

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Mauricio Alanis M (GARZA GARCIA, NL Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fodor's New York City 2001: Completely Updated Every Year, Color Photos and Pull-Out Map, Smart Travel Tips from A to Z (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

The guide is good and will help any visitor to NYC to get along much better than without a guide. The truth is that even though the book is helpful, if you are used to travel with Frommer's books and never switched to Fodor's, I think there's no need to change. As a Frommer's brand buyer, I missed some features and easy reading when traveling with this book. However, This Fodor's book excells in 2 things, first, the full color photos at the beginning of the book are very inspiring, and second: the post-it flags included are a unique handy feature that will help you to highlight your most important sections of the book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All you need to know about NYC, June 28, 2001

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This review is from: Fodor's New York City 2001: Completely Updated Every Year, Color Photos and Pull-Out Map, Smart Travel Tips from A to Z (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

This guidebook gives you all the information you will need for a fun weekend--or week--in NYC. It even includes sample itineries to help you map out a course that won't have you running around the city confused. Leave the rest of the guidebooks at home. This one is all you need.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It has everything!!!, June 4, 2001

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Stephanie A. Dauphin (Santee, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fodor's New York City 2001: Completely Updated Every Year, Color Photos and Pull-Out Map, Smart Travel Tips from A to Z (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

Anything and everything you want to know, see, and hear about New York. I'd be lost in New York without it. It even suggests schedules to go by so you don't miss out on the good stuff. It's great! Well worth for the low price.