Newcomer's Handbook For Moving To And Living In New York City: Including Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, And Northern New Jersey (Newcomer's Handbooks) [Paperback]

First Books (Author)

Book Description

Series: Newcomer's Handbooks | Publication Date: December 2004

Moving to New York has never been easier!

First Books is delighted to announce the completely revised and updated 20th edition of the all-time bestselling guide for moving to the Big Apple: The Newcomer's Handbook® for Moving to and Living in New York City.

Featuring maps as well as neighborhood profiles of Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and close-in New Jersey, plus a quick guide to suburban communities in New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester County, and Connecticut, the number one guide to moving to New York City is better than ever.

The 20th edition also presents essential sections on Finding a Place to Live, Moving and Storage, Money Matters, Getting Settled, Helpful Services, Childcare and Education, Shopping for the Home, Cultural Life, Sports and Recreation, Greenspace and Beaches, Places of Worship, Volunteering, Transportation, and Temporary Lodgings. In addition, a handy calendar of NYC events, a listing of NYC-related guidebooks and references related to NYC history and education, and a directory of useful phone numbers and websites round out this indispensable book. It even includes a Manhattan address locator, which explains where to find the location of street and avenue addresses above 14th Street.

In addition to being thoroughly fact-checked, updated, and revised, the 20th edition includes such new material as:

• An Immigrant Newcomers section • A Literary Life section • A thorough discussion of intrastate and interstate moves and consumer complaints

Product Details

• Paperback: 407 pages
• Publisher: First Books Inc; 20 edition (December 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912301562
• ISBN-13: 978-0912301563
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,001,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not really for moving or living in NYC, May 25, 2005

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an Italian in New York - See all my reviews

This review is from: Newcomer's Handbook For Moving To And Living In New York City: Including Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, And Northern New Jersey (Newcomer's Handbooks) (Paperback)

The neighborhood descriptions take up the first 150 pages, but they are written for a turist guide, not a "moving guide". There is no mention of prices, or managing companies, or name of buildings. It is paradoxical that the best advice in this guide for the purpose of finding buildings is to buy another guide: Gabriel's Apartment Rental Guide
Other information take up the rest of the book (roughly page 150 to 400). This section includes the following lists: some realtors, some movers, utilties, some banks, some child-related services, some shops, some theaters and more. Most of these lists do not appear comprehensive, or selected according to some specific criterion. I believe you can find the same information on the internet or the yellow pages.
There is some useful information, but not much of it. It might have also some modest value in making some of the information readily accessible. All in all, I regret the purchase.

4.0 out of 5 stars Everything Newcomers Need to Know About New York, October 24, 2005

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Teacher in New York - See all my reviews

This review is from: Newcomer's Handbook For Moving To And Living In New York City: Including Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, And Northern New Jersey (Newcomer's Handbooks) (Paperback)

The Newcomers Handbook for Moving to and Living in New York City is a thorough and comprehensive book that tells the reader almost everything that he or she needs to know about the New York City metropolitan area. The book provides detailed descriptions of a wide variety of neighborhoods and communities in and around New York City. The detailed descriptions give a good sense of what each neighborhood and community is about and thus enable the newcomer to narrow his or her focus in terms of finding the right place to live. The book also provides a great deal of useful information. This information includes sources of services, names of government agencies, names and addresses of retail establishments, and guidance on the process of apartment-hunting that seems to be unique to New York City. As if to highlight its attention to detail, the book includes a Manhattan Address Locator on page five. This odd little table provides the "secret formula" for finding out the cross streets for almost any address anywhere on the island of Manhattan. Newcomers will find this item particularly useful as they try to navigate their way across Manhattan in search of housing and employment. I highly recommend this book to any newcomer to the New York City metropolitan area.