New York with Map (Blue Guide New York) [Paperback]

Carol Von Pressentin Wright (Author), Stuart Miller (Author), Sharon Seitz (Author)

Book Description

Series: Blue Guide New York | Publication Date: April 2002

With detailed walking tours throughout Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, Blue Guide New York offers an accessible approach to exploring the city. Providing fascinating background history and expert descriptions of neighborhoods, parks, museums, building and landmarks, in addition to practical and up-to-date information on accommodation, restaurants, and city activities for every budget, Blue Guide New York is an excellent resource. 41 maps, 13 b/w photographs.

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Possibly the most comprehensive guide there is to New York. -- New York Daily News

Sets the standard for travel guides. -- Sunday Times [London]

[I]mpressive and indispensable to the serious sightseer. -- New York Times, Richard F. Shepard

About the Author

Carol von Pressentin Wright compiled the first two editions of Blue Guide New York and is also the author of Blue Guide Museums and Galleries of New York. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature, writes articles for the New York Times and other publications. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 862 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 3 edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393319857
• ISBN-13: 978-0393319859
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #943,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Indispensable!, March 12, 2005

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This review is from: New York with Map (Blue Guide New York) (Paperback)

Carol von Pressentin Wright's "Blue Guide to New York" is probably the most comprehensive guidebook to the Big Apple available. Absolutely indispensable, it includes 41 detailed maps for all five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island, along with several black and white photographs. As a New Yorker, I cannot think of anything that has not been included here. I frequently use the book myself, especially when I have out-of-town visitors. It is also excellent, for New Yorkers and visitors alike, to use on walking tours. I have the 2002 edition.

In an extremely accessible format, "The Blue Guide" presents information on all NYC districts and important sights, including: practical information, lodgings, restaurants and eateries for every budget, transportation, museums and galleries, sports, performing arts, shopping, monuments, historic detail and districts, detailed walking tours and background information. As noted, there is a veritable plethora of clear and easy-to-follow maps, along with a large pull-out MTA map of the subway system, and bus, railroad and ferry connections.

From the posh shops on Madison and Fifth Avenues to the funky Lower East Side, from the streets of Greenwich Village and Soho to the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope, this is the one and only guide you will need to navigate through this fabulous city, and to find fascinating out-of-the-way places most tourests never discover. There are myriad cultures here: Little Odessa in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Little Italy, Chinatown, a thriving Greek community in Astoria, Queens, Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn where Arabic is heard on the street and wares from all over the Middle East are sold. Almost every country in the world is represented here and you can visit them all easily with the Blue Guide in hand. I hope you enjoy the city I love!
JANA

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Architectural Guide To New York City, June 1, 1999

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This review is from: Blue Guide New York: Atlas of Manhattan, Maps, and Plans (Paperback)

Simply the best book available for those seriously interested in a detailed architectural history of New York, even though the most recent edition was published in 1991. Unbelievably rich in detail. As other reviewers point out however, this is NOT a typical "tourist" guide about where to eat, sleep or have fun in New York.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best portable encyclopedia of New York!, March 8, 1998

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This review is from: Blue Guide New York: Atlas of Manhattan, Maps, and Plans (Paperback)

Until Kenneth Jackson's _Encyclopedia of New York City_ this was the closest thing to an encyclopedia of New York City in existence. Don't buy this book for restaurant reviews or the best hotels; the other guides are for those things. There is a (small and) half-hearted set of restaurant and hotel listings in the front of the tome, but the rest is the real meat of the book: Fantastically detailed walking tours of every part of the city. Manhattan is throughly covered, of course, but the other boroughs don't get overlooked as so many other books do. Buckets of historical data, curious facts, interesting nuggets of info fill every page. Hopefully a newer edition will come out soon, but until it does this book is the best!