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Rand McNally New York: State Map (State Maps-USA)

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This is a perfect map for navigating by car through New York State. It's made of durable laminated paper cardstock (i.e. thicker than paper) and it's small enough to open up and use inside your car, but still offers very decent detail for its size. And - hooray! - it has mini maps of several of the larger towns/cities in the state:

-New York City & vicinity
-Manhattan
-Long Island
-Albany/Schenectady
-Binghamton
-Utica
-Buffalo/Niagara Falls
-Rochester
-Syracuse
-Elmira

Most of the mini maps are tiny, so they're no replacement for dedicated city maps, but they do offer a decent overview of the highways and major roads in these cities. New York City and metro area is rightfully given more coverage and a higher level of detail than the others. Again, it's no replacement for a New York City map, but very decent considering this is a compact state map. This is among the gems of Rand McNally's 'Easy To Fold' and EasyFinder series of laminated maps.

An aside: I live in Ottawa, Canada, and I'm a fan of late-night, long-distance AM talk radio. Many of the stations I pick up originate from New York State and I love using this map to find those lesser-known towns and cities.

Yes, this is a map. It is accurate, easy to use, and helped us navigate our way around lower NY and Westchester county. I did have one close encounter with the Bronx, but I can't place blame on the map for that incident.