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Top 10 New York City (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide)

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I recently got several books on New York for an upcoming trip. This one is my favorite. It is user friendly, and organized in an easy to use format. I especially like how it is broken up into neighborhoods, and then further broken down. If you happen to be in midtown and are hungry, you can find a good restaurant. Looking for an art museum, shopping, or garden is just as easy. Also it includes information on how to get tickets in advance, and website addresses when avail. Can't wait to use it.

I just ordered the latest edition of this book; I had the older version and it was great! I just used it for a walking tour of high rise lobbies and churches. It includes pictures and descriptions, maps, and it even shows opening times. I got the new one to ensure that I have the latest opening times. If you are interested in the architecture and flavor of various neighborhoods in Manhattan, it's great. It's organized by neighborhood so you can concentrate on one section of the city and pick out what you want to see. You can get a good idea of what you will see from the pictorial maps and photographs. This is a very useful book.

So it says "Top 10"??? It's MUCH more than that. My daughter and I used this on a recent 5 day trip to the Big Apple, and it helped us take many more bites of it than we'd anticipated, including ferry info for the Statue of Liberty, great restaurants in various areas (in all price ranges), learning about free concerts at a Church near Ground Zero, how to navigate MoMA, and the like.

It's not a heavy book, it's purse-packable, and it's extremely handy in design and features. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT! While you might want to read others prior to heading to NYC, this one is the one to actually bring along (maybe with some photocopied pages from others... if you insist!)

I love the history sections. Also, the maps, pictures, and visitor info boxes are very helpful in deciding what to do. The lodging and restaurant sections though are always sort of useless compared to AAA guides, expedia, travelocity, etc. which are very thorough.

I used this top 10 brand for travel books many times and it never lets me down! I use them a lot!

Eyewitness books are beautiful books and this one is also beautiful and the top 10 lists are a great tool for figuring out what to see. However, this guide lacks the insider travel tips and reviews or ratings that are really needed for a complete travel guide.

For example, when buying discount tickets for a Broadway show at the TKTS booth this book stated where the booths are located and what time the booth opens, but it would have been so much better if this guide also told me how early I should show up to get in line, how long the lines are, etc. I found this information on the web.

Also, we were visiting NY for a limited time and I did not find suggestions on how to see NY in, for example, 1 day, 3 days or a week, which I have found to be very helpful in other guides.

Since we were on a limited time schedule we decided we'd try a tour bus. However, many of the reviews of bus tours on the web said they were a waste of time because 1) you often end up stuck in traffic, 2) you might wait much longer than the scheduled time for the next bus to pick you up, 3) you might get rude guides, or 4) you might get a guide that is knowledgeable or a guide that doesn't know any NY history. So we decided to take the subway and to meet up with some of the "free" walking tours which was suggested by many the web as an alternative to the bus tours. This turned out to be a great way to see and learn about NY city. (The "free" walking tour guides were extremely knowledgeable, delightful and, of course, are not working for free, but rather tips, which they deserve.)

We did not use the map at all because we purchased the Streetwise Manhattan laminated map which was larger and easier to read.

To summarize, we did use this Eyewitness book to figure out what to see, but then I used the web to figure out the ins and outs of how to see the sights of NY. I wish this guide book gave more guidance.

I accidently bought this kindle version by using my new htc desire phone. I wanted to send a sample to my kindle but then somehow hit the buy with 1-click button.

The price of 10.78 is not worth it. I would recommend to invest a few dollars more and buy the hardcopy. The maps are useless. You can hardly view the details.

Top 10 New York City certainly lists what the authors consider to be the top 10 attractions in NYC but it is so much more. First of all it is constructed with the traveler in mind. It is small, the cover is laminated for increased durability and it has really good, easy to read maps of Manhattan and the subway system. The book is divided into sections by area of NYC like, midtown, lower manhattan, Tribeca, etc. For all these areas you get suggestions for what to see, where to eat, where to stay and where to shop and how much entrance fees are. You also get specific addresses and times the places are open and also what specific exhibits to see if you are going to a museum. We had dinner at one of the recommended restaurants in midtown, The Brasserie, and it was really good. We found it to be a great little guide book

I would definitely buy Eyewitness Top Ten books for any travel destination. I have been to NYC many times, but I learned a lot and referred to it often during my trip. The font size on the take-out map is too small, but other wise, it was great.

I got several books in preparation for my trip to New York. This one is definitely my favorite. It combines history and details of the city as well as facts and pictures about all the major attractions, and some lesser known ones as well. The street veiws are all extremely helpful and the big map that it comes with is handy too.