The New York Mapguide: Fifth Edition [FOLDED MAP] (Map)

~ Michael Middleditch (Author) "The New York City subway system operates 24 hours a day, a 7-days-a-week service, but not all routes operate at all times..." (more)
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Product Description

Popular and portable, The New York Mapguide-now in its second edition-contains everything visitors need to know to enjoy themselves in, get the best out of, and find their way around New York City. Its colorful, informative maps are easy to read and convenient to handle-no unfolding necessary. As terrific as the easily readable maps are, however, there is much more here. Packed into these 64 pages is a surprising amount of information about the many different sights and activities to see and do in and around the Big Apple.

• A complete map of the Manhattan subway system
• A calendar of events, including major activities, dates and locations of parades and marches, park events, and music festivals
• Information on museums-including a full page devoted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Fascinating facts about places of interest, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Times Square
• Sections devoted to shopping, services, and entertainment
• Newly-added information about the Bronx and Brooklyn
• Three walking tours-the Financial District, the Lower East Side, and Greenwich Village

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Text: English

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Product Details

• Map: 64 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 2nd edition (January 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140294597
• ISBN-13: 978-0140294590
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #406,157 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Manhattan Map Guide by a New York Mile, August 27, 2000

By	James Paris "Tarnmoor" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The New York Mapguide: The Essential Guide to Manhattan (Penguin Mapguides) (Paperback)

I have used Michael Middleditch's Penguin map guides of London and Paris and found them to be attractive and incredibly useful, but they all pale before the excellent job he did with THE NEW YORK MAP GUIDE. For once, he does a great job showing bus as well as subway routes (a problem with the Paris and London guides). The introductory material on places of interest and the back-of-the-book guide to parks, New York architecture, entertainments, and walking tours are compact and exceedingly well done.

My only complaint is that not exactly all of Manhattan is mapped: missing are Inwood, Washington Heights, Spanish Harlem, and parts of Harlem. Okay, so these aren't exactly the biggest tourist draws, but I would kind of like to see how to get to the Cloisters and a couple of other tourist sights. Perhaps the publisher should have drawn a few pictures of dragons and sea monsters along the unmapped tierra incognita...

But why kvetch? So there's a slice taken out of the Big Apple! There's enough left to help fuel several excellent vacations. I couldn't imagine taking a trip to NYC without it.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Guide/Map book, June 3, 2002

By A Customer

We took this guidebook with us to NYC 3 weeks ago and found it invaluable. The level of detail is wonderful, and the size is compact enough to fit in a purse or totebag. We used the book multiple times throughout the day for the subway map, the streets, locations of landmarks and other popular spots, the footpaths in Central Park, and on and on and on. I would highly recommend this guide to anyone going to the City.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very user friendly, April 5, 2000

By	Amanda Figueroa (Caguas, Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New York Mapguide: The Essential Guide to Manhattan (Penguin Mapguides) (Paperback)

This is a very user friendly guide to Manhattan. Even though I've had it for a couple of years, and now live near the city, I still use it. It has individual maps of evry part of the city. These maps are big, clear and full of information. You will not only get every street, you'll get the location of restaurants, clubs, places of interest, plus descriptions of these places and interesting things to do. I highly recomend it.