Status
Available
Call number
Publication
DK Eyewitness Travel (Dorling Kindersley) (Penguin Random House)
Pages
440
Description
Experience the best of New York City with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New York City. This newly updated travel guide for New York City will lead you straight to the best attractions Manhattan has to offer, from unearthing archaeological treasures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to biking through Central Park to discovering the city's hottest neighborhoods on walking tours. Plus, check out the best of the boroughs with suggested highlights for Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx, and upper Manhattan.
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2012
Physical description
440 p.; 8.6 inches
ISBN
1465460411 / 9781465460417
User reviews
LibraryThing member helensdatter
This is a great guide to New York and makes a wonderful souvenir.
LibraryThing member andyx
Excellent guidebook with terrific illustrations. Took us to parts of Manhattan I'd hardly heard of...
LibraryThing member allin1
Nova Iorque (Guia American Express) (1996)
LibraryThing member detailmuse
This beautiful travel guide explores New York City by dividing Manhattan island into 14 geographical regions, adding a section on Brooklyn, and adding a combined section on Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. Within each region is an orientation to the history and ambience of the neighborhood, a
The book’s design and style is trademark DK Eyewitness -- with literally a thousand color images, maps and building cross-sections -- except the pages are now of matte paper instead of glossy. It has an excellent tear-out map, laminated and folded and very legibly labeled with neighborhoods, streets, sites and subways. Note that word earlier, “explore” -- this is a guide that will get you out and about. Note also that, with few exceptions, it does NOT include lodging, dining or entertainment (when it does, it’s for sites that are destinations in themselves). It’s a lively, must-read guide for anyone planning leisure time in NYC.
(Review based on a copy of the 2019 edition provided by the publisher.)
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detailed map, then information about two or three truly must-see locations/activities and 5-15 other points of interest. Almost every section includes “A Short Walk” -- usually about a mile, focused on a theme of the area.The book’s design and style is trademark DK Eyewitness -- with literally a thousand color images, maps and building cross-sections -- except the pages are now of matte paper instead of glossy. It has an excellent tear-out map, laminated and folded and very legibly labeled with neighborhoods, streets, sites and subways. Note that word earlier, “explore” -- this is a guide that will get you out and about. Note also that, with few exceptions, it does NOT include lodging, dining or entertainment (when it does, it’s for sites that are destinations in themselves). It’s a lively, must-read guide for anyone planning leisure time in NYC.
(Review based on a copy of the 2019 edition provided by the publisher.)
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Subjects
Call number
SOC I.700