Streetwise The Bronx Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of The Bronx, New York - Folding pocket size travel map with subway stations [Map]

Streetwise Maps (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2007

Streetwise The Bronx Map - Laminated City Street Map of The Bronx, New York - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated subway stations

This map covers the following areas:
Main Bronx Map 1:37,000
The Bronx Area Map

One of the five boroughs of New York, The Bronx is home to the New York Yankees, and the famous Bronx Zoo and Hunts Point markets. Maybe it is the fact that there are over 6,000 acres of parkland where you can let your imaginative spirit roam, but a profusion of creative types have called The Bronx home.

The Bronx is a great place to get away and relax for the afternoon. The New York Botanical Gardens are lovely in any season, but are truly special when the roses bloom. It’s also the site of a blockbuster orchid show in the winter. City Island, a hidden seaside village that belongs more in New England than in New York City, is the perfect destination for a seafood feast in the summer. If you’re looking for relaxation of a more permanent nature, visit Woodlawn Cemetary. The retail moguls, JC Penny, RH Macy and FW Woolworth find the setting bucolic enough to stay put. The big draw for animal lovers is of course the Bronx Zoo. Over 4,000 animals are featured in natural habitats. A successful breeding program ensures that there are new arrivals all the time.

A prized diamond is found at Yankee Stadium. The House That Ruth Built has seen both victory and defeat lately it’s been mostly victory and it endures as a temple to the most American of pastimes.

You can experience The Bronx, plus parts of northern Manhattan and southern Westchester County with the STREETWISE® map of The Bronx. The main Bronx map, with a detailed subway overlay, will help you navigate your way through all Bronx neighborhoods like Belmont, High Bridge, Parkchester, Throgs Neck, Tremont, Pelham Parkway, Concourse, Riverdale, and Van Cortlandt Park, to name a few.

A complete index of streets, points of interest, education, culture, transportation and parks is clearly listed on the STREETWISE® Bronx Map.

Our pocket size map of The Bronx is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Bronx map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Bronx map today and you too can navigate The Bronx, New York like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Don't leave home without STREETWISE.' --The New York Times

'STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.' --Travel + Leisure Magazine

'In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.' --Chicago Daily Herald

About the Author

STREETWISE® is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. We’ve set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where you’ve never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.

The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970’s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.

After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.

He started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.

More important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map - vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.

Building the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.

Today, STREETWISE® produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.

Yet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesn’t match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we’ve done the work, now you have the adventure.

In the end, it’s not about the map, it’s about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. It’s about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE® is the great map that you need.

Product Details

• Map: 1 pages
• Publisher: Streetwise Maps (December 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886705615
• ISBN-13: 978-1886705616
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,154,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)