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Frommer's New York City 2009 (Frommer's Complete)
Brian Silverman
$3.58
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America’s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. - More annually updated guides than any other series
- 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides
- Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries
- Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design
Explore the city with a real New Yorker, who gives you inside tips on hotels, restaurants, attractions, and nightlife. - The best places to eat, from vintage delis to pizza joints to power palaces.
- Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions, and the latest news on the newest hotels, restaurants and hotspots in the City that Never Sleeps.
- The most frequently updated travel series on the market. Plus, online updates are available at Frommers.com so travelers don't have to worry about out-of-date information.
- Opinionated write-ups. No bland descriptions and lukewarm recommendations. Our expert writers are passionate about their destinations--tell it like it is in an engaging and helpful way.
- Exact prices listed for every establishment and activity--no other guides offer such detailed, candid reviews of hotels and restaurants. We include the very best, but also emphasize moderately priced choices for real people.
- All Complete guides offer user-friendly features including star ratings and special icons to point readers to great finds, excellent values, insider tips, best bets for kids, special moments, and overrated experiences.
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Frommer's New York City 2010 (Frommer's Color Complete Guides)
Richard Goodman
$10.90
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Over 200 full-color photos throughout Detailed itineraries, including a "Eating Tour" of some of New York's favorite foods Full-color maps, including a 2-page map of the Bronx Zoo Tips on gallery-hopping, finding the best inexpensive theater, and the best hotel (and dive) bars An in-depth chapter that goes from the sale of Manhattan to the Dutch through the city's 400th birthday New York City abounds with new museums: from the Soho annex of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to the funky New Museum; we'll bring you the latest on the new arrivals and major renovations Hotel rooms and meals in restaurants are cheaper? How the city is responding to hard times...by cutting prices, and where to look for new-found bargains.
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Fodor's New York City 2009 (Full-Color Gold Guides)
Fodor's
$14.18
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Editorial Review
Excerpt from New York Times 10/12/08
You may think of Fodor’s as dependably bland, but its “New York City 2009” (Fodor’s Travel, 552 pages, $18.95) is the can’t-go-wrong choice for just about any first-timer to the Big Apple. First, it’s beautiful — great layout, nice maps, easy-to-read font on thick paper. And design matters with guidebooks: they have to be legible in low light, on crowded buses and in airports when you’re jetlagged and your contacts are killing you.
The best way to break up this mammoth city is by neighborhood, and Fodor’s devotes about 200 pages to that task. The neighborhood guides pack information into breezy prose, and have sections like “Where can I find ...?” which gives you two choices each for a coffee stop, “a quick bite” or cocktails in each neighborhood, eliminating possible excuses for entering a Starbucks or McDonald’s. If you’re browsing in the bookstore and you want a quick sense of why Fodor’s stands out, look at their seven-page section on ground zero that starts on page 48 and somehow manages to explain the site and the history in depth while also hitting the right notes about the tragedy.
To view full article go to http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/travel/12weekend.html
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Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in New York City!
•Your vacation never looked better. This Fodor’s full-color guide paints an unforgettable picture of New York City with vibrant maps, vividly illustrated features, and stunning color photos.
•Updated annually, Fodor’s New York City provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.
•Fodor’s New York City features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.
•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in New York City.
•Experience New York City like a local! Fodor’s New York City includes unique photo-features that impart the city’s culture, covering the best ways to experience the Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ground Zero, and much more!
•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.
•Full-color pullout map
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
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The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History
Eric Homberger
$12.81
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A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book
The rich and eminently browsable visual guide to the history of New York, in an all-new
second edition
The Historical Atlas of New York City, second edition, takes us, neighborhood by neighborhood, through four hundred years of Gotham's rich past, describing such crucial events as the city's initial settlement of 270 people in thirty log houses; John Jacob Astor's meteoric rise from humble fur trader to the richest, most powerful man in the city; and the fascinating ethnic mixture that is modern Queens. The full-color maps, charts, photographs, drawings, and mini-essays of this encyclopedic volume also trace the historical development and cultural relevance of such iconic New York thoroughfares as Fifth Avenue, Wall Street, Park Avenue, and Broadway. This thoroughly updated edition brings the Atlas up to the present, including three all-new two-page spreads on Rudolph Giuliani's New York, the revival of Forty-second Street, and the rebuilding of Ground Zero.
A fascinating chronicle of the life of a metropolis, the handsome second edition of The Historical Atlas of New York City provides a vivid and unique perspective on the nation's cultural capital.
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New York City (City Guide)
Regis St Louis
$12.61
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Discover New York City
Absorb the light of a thousand suns in neon-soaked Times Square
Feel the love for John Lennon at his flower-filled Strawberry Fields shrine
Drink in the earthy smells of nature at Union Square's weekend organic food market
Go medieval at the Cloisters, a full-sized castle in northern Manhattan
See the city at breakneck speed from the back of a pedicab
In This Guide:
4 local authors, 340 hours of research, one offer of chicken feet in Chinatown for good luck and 20 different types of beer sampled
More coverage of the city's diverse neighborhoods, plus a new Itinerary Builder to help you plan your time
Full-color miniguides to NYC Style and Brooklyn
Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler insights
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The Best Things to Do in New York City: 1001 Ideas
Jacob Lehman
$4.82
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What are 1001 things you should treat yourself and your guests to in New York City? Be serenaded by Cole Porter's piano at the Waldorf, or hear Woody Allen play clarinet at the Carlyle. Drink champagne on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum, or discover the abandoned subway station at City Hall. Eat at America's very first pizzeria, or enjoy the most expensive cocktail in the country at the World Bar. Ride the Staten Island Ferry, or ride a bike through Central Park. Go surfing out at Rockaway Beach, or relax in a Russian bath in the East Village . . . . Organized by theme–including Eating and Drinking, 24-hour New York, Shopping and Spending, Arts and Culture, Views and Sites, the Great Outdoors, and Classic New York–and packed with detailed, helpful indexes organized by neighborhood and by category, this is simply the most fun and comprehensive guidebook to New York City ever. The Best Things to Do in New York crosses genres and boroughs to explore every aspect of the most diverse and exciting city in the world. Written from experience by two people who love the city, and featuring priceless tips from expert contributors–from authors on their favorite bookstores to architects on the city's best buildings–The Best Things to do in New York is much more than just a guide.
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Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City's Best Unusual Attractions
SUZANNE REISMAN
$10.05
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While it may seem that every possible topic about New York City's attractions has been written about, Off the Beaten (Subway) Track is the first book to focus on the hundreds of off-the-beaten-path destinations in the city. Some are small museums, others are historic places long forgotten, some are stores that sell only odd things, and some are distinguished for their claim to fame as the world's largest/smallest whatever. All of them are notable for the passion with which their proprietors and curators care for them, and all can be visited via the subway system as the author directs readers to which of the city's 486 subway stations will get them closest. These are the types of places and things that fit perfectly with New Yorkers' psyches and egos and satisfy the desire of tourists to see the unusual. For example, New York is home to the world's tallest Doric column, the world's largest armory, the world's largest cathedral, and the world's largest Reform synagogue. It also has a troll museum, a numismatic museum, a skyscraper museum, doll and toy museums, and a museum of comic and cartoon art. In many cases, half the fun of visiting many of these sites is meeting the people behind them. Organized geographically to help readers explore the culture and diversity of the city's great neighborhoods, Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City's Best Unusual Attractions offers venues in Lower, Middle, and Upper Manhattan; Brooklyn; the Bronx; Queens; and Staten Island. Each section features attractions and fascinating sidebars highlighting places that are particularly interesting to explore.
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Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to New York City
Mike Colameco
$17.57
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The insider's food guide to New York City-from trusted New York food expert and TV/radio host Michael Colameco New York is the food capital of the United States, with an incredibly rich and diverse dining scene that boasts everything from four-star French restaurants, casual neighborhood bistros, and ethnic restaurants from every corner of the world to corner bakeries, pastry shops, and much more. Now Mike Colameco, the host of PBS's popular Colameco's Food Show and WOR-Radio's "Food Talk", helps you make sense of this dizzying array of choices. He draws on his experience as a chef and New York resident to offer in-depth reviews of his favorite eating options, from high-end restaurants to cheap takeout counters and beyond. His work has given him unprecedented access to the city's chefs and kitchens, allowing him to tell you things others can't. He offers inside information about different establishments, giving a detailed and sometimes irreverent sense of the food and the people behind them. - Goes beyond ratings-centered guides to offer detailed, opinionated reviews by an experienced chef and longtime New Yorker
- Recommends restaurants, bakers, butchers, chocolatiers, cheese stores, fishmongers, pastry shops, wine merchants, and more
- Entries include basic facts, contact information, and a thoughtful, personal review
- Includes choices in every price range and neighborhood, from Tribeca to Harlem
Whether you're visiting for a weekend or have lived in New York for years, this guide is your #1 go-to source for the best food the city has to offer. Mike Colameco's Best Cheap Eats Under $25 in NYC Tough economic times call for creative solutions. While this book already has a lot of restaurants categorized as “moderate” and “inexpensive,” here is a sampling of places which all offer great value. It should also be noted that due to the difficult economic environment we are all experiencing, many restaurants are running “restaurant week” pricing all year long for lunch, which translates to $24.07 for three courses, plus tax and tip. Alfanoonse
8 Maiden Lane
212-528-4669
When I used to do live radio six days a week, many of them from the studios of WOR nearby on Broadway, I’d pop in here for a quick a falafel sandwich and was never disappointed. What started as a takeout-only joint nearby expanded to this 50-seat BYOB spot due in great part to the quality of the food and word-of-mouth reputation. The Middle Eastern menu features shawarma, various kebabs, baba ghanoush, meat and vegetable pies, and vegetarian platters. I also like the rice pudding and bizarre custard pudding with chocolate. Akdeniz
19 West 46th Street
212-575-2307
In a neighborhood chock full of restaurants, mostly all bad, it’s easy to view this part of town as a culinary flyover. But once in a while New York will surprise you. Akdeniz is a decent and inexpensive Turkish restaurant specializing in good vegetarian dishes and seafood. For starters, the baba ghannouj is smoky and rich and the cacik (the cucumber yogurt mix scented with garlic and laced with chopped mint and dill) a good foil. Kebabs, lamb chops, and chicken in various guises are available, but I’d opt for the whole grilled fish on the bone—sea bass, trout, snapper, or dorade—all farm-raised but good especially cooked this way fresh off the grill. The wine list is short but okay, with a few notables from Turkey like the white Beyaz or Cankaya. For dessert, the Turkish pudding or kadayif are good options. Community Food and Juice
2893 Broadway
212-665-2800
Everyone I know that lives anywhere near here, which is to say the Upper West Side northward through Harlem, just loves this place. And what’s not to love? Though urban New York by location, there is something very Bay Area about the scene. Think Berkeley, as in organic, certified green, no bottled water (just filtered in re-useable containers), really solid cooking, great friendly service, and inexpensive, market-driven seasonal food to boot. From breakfast through dinner, they’ve got you covered. Start your day with good fair-trade coffee and house-made granola, blueberry pancakes, or brioche French Toast. For lunch, try the famous bowl of beets with creamy whipped goat cheese and toasted pistachios or the rice or udon bowls, veggie burger, or natural grass-fed beef burger. For dinner, shrimp pot stickers, really good crab cakes and any of the salads make for good starters. Also, seasonal house ravioli or panko-crisped chicken both come in under the $20.00 mark. My favorite desserts of theirs are the Key lime meringue pie and the dulce de leche sundae. With a full bar and food this good, it’s well worth the trek uptown anytime for a visit. Dok Suni’s
119 First Avenue
212-477-9506
I usually get my Korean fix stepping off the N, Q, R, or W at 34th and walking south two blocks, but should you find yourself in the East Village, Dok Suni’s will do just fine. Run by a mom-and-daughter team, the room is always busy. The food, especially the more traditional Korean side of it, is very good. There is a hip soundtrack, and not surprisingly, unlike their midtown counterparts, the place is packed with that Gen “X” and “Y” crowd living nearby. The good-sized menu is in English mostly, mixing traditional dishes with some new wave, fusion concepts. Their dumplings are good, and the kim chee pancake dipped in soy and vinegar is good to share. Essentially there is something here for everyone—noodle lovers, vegetarians, meat heads—and very good options as well, such as hot and spicy broiled squid, redolent of that ubiquitous red pepper paste, or the dish billed as fish jun, a white-fleshed fish egg, battered and then pan sautéed, served with a soy vinegar dipping sauce. A full bar is available, but beer or roast barley tea works best with this food. Je’Bon Noodle House
15 St. Mark’s Place
212-388-1313
As New York has gone noodle crazy, with everyone from Jean-Georges Vongerichten to David Chang getting in the game, I’m surprised this place doesn’t get more press. It’s good, consistent, and cheap. The theme is Asian noodles in various guises, with a good amount of variety. Everyone raves about the “silver needles,” pan fried and tossed with minced pork shrimp, julienned carrot, egg, and onion, but I like the Singapore style chow mei fun laced with curry or the combo fish ball and beef ball in chicken broth just as well. They have sushi, Japanese-style skewer plates, and a good beer list, as well as a broad range of interesting salads, with nearly nothing on the menu save the sushi for more than $10.00. Keste Pizza & Vino
271 Bleecker Street
212-243-1500
Yet another great new pizza spot opened in early 2009, this one in the West Village, not far from John’s and a few other Bleecker Street joints that aren’t half bad as well. Keste sits next to Matt Uminoff Guitars, and one day as I was eyeing a vintage Les Paul I couldn’t afford in the window, 450 Mike Colameco’s Food Lover’s Guide to NYC I noticed something new right next door. In I marched. The long narrow room seats around 50, with the open kitchen and oven to the rear. Initially they had no liquor license, but beer was available right across the street at a deli. The menu offers a small a variety of pizza all coming from a custom-made, imported oven, as well as a few daily pizza specials, with some salads and side dishes. The ingredients for the pies are top notch: imported flour, San Marzano tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, Sicilian sea salt, all sourced by the proud Pizzaiolo Roberto Caporuscio, who can be found forming the pies and manning the ovens most nights. The result here is a good, inexpensive, casual pizza spot as one might find anywhere in Southern Italy. Lan Zhou
144 East Broadway
212-566-6933
I love good noodles in any culture and in any guise; ditto for dumplings, and those are the two best reasons to visit this spot. For around $5.00, you can get a great bowl of soup filled with chewy, addictive, hand-pulled noodles, and for less than half that price, eight, that’s right eight, boiled pork and chive dumplings. Twelve dumplings will set you back $3.00. Bring your own beer and be advised that the décor is awful, the lighting fluorescent, and the staff less than vigilant, but the noodle maker performs in open view, and dinner for two can easily be done for well under $15.00. Pho Grand
277 Grand Street
212-965-5366
The name may hint at the rent, the key money, or what they spent on “renovation,” as I’m not exactly sure what this place was before it was Pho Grand. The cedar walls that line the dining room suggest a giant sauna or perhaps an upstate ski lodge, but whatever, it’s a good choice for pho and other Vietnamese specialties with a budget in mind. The signature soups come in around $6.00 to $7.00 a pop. Your pho choices include a good broth redolent of Chinese five spice, studded with various cuts of meat such as the navel, which is the same cut used in pastrami, to the leaner eye round, or thinly sliced, julienned tripe, to chewy, gelatinous beef tendon, my favorite. To this, add great noodles dishes, a small multiple squid section of the menu with options listed at $7.95, and on to shrimp, beef, and chicken choices. On a recent visit I had dish billed as bo nuong vi, in which thin slices of beef are sautéed then combined with pickled carrots, sliced radish, and finely chopped mint, all wrapped in rice paper and simply eaten with the addition of a dipping chili sauce… yum! Pinche Taqueria
27 Mott Street (plus other locations)
212-625-0090
This diminutive space is a long, narrow room with natural red and painted brick walls and an open kitchen. Food may be served on disposable plates and aluminum foil takeout containers, but Pinche vies for being one the best taquerias in town, including La Esquina a few doors down. The tortillas are house-made, and the fried fish tacos supposedly made from line-caught Mahi Mahi are excellent. The decent burritos (not huge, but adequate and good), yucca fries, and the very good, slow-cooked pork carnitas are a few of the highlights. While the Mission District food police may not approve, to my mind the chow served here, washed down with good beer or a glass or two of wine, at these prices is worth the trip. Porchetta
110 East 7th Street
212-777-2151
Chef Sara Jenkins has been cooking around NYC for years now. Prior to this she ran 50 Carmine. She lived in Italy for most of her youth and really knows authentic Italian food. Here at Porchetta, the premise is simple. It’s basically a one-dish restaurant, a food stall essentially, the kind one might find traveling through Italy but rarely if ever here. It’s counter service only, with a few seats if you can snag them, but worth it regardless. Porchetta is simply Heritage breed, boneless Hampshire pork loin that is first slathered with chopped garlic, rosemary, fennel pollen, a generous dose of salt and fresh pepper, and a few other herbs and encased in rich fatty Hampshire pork belly, tied together and slow roasted. The result features crisped skin, alternating in layers with the meat and fat, served as a standalone with lovely little roasted potatoes or as a sandwich set within Sullivan Street ciabatta rolls, with a great bitter chicory salad thrown in to cover the vegetable group from the food pyramid. Simple, satisfying, and delicious.
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We're There! New York City
Elizabeth Skinner Grumbach
$3.32
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Visiting New York City with your kids? This book is sure to engage and entertain your children with fun scavenger hunts and puzzles relating to what you are seeing as you explore the Big Apple. Beautiful photography and eye-catching graphics will keep your children busy at the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Central Park and at other major attractions. We’ve even included activities to keep them happy while waiting for a meal or on line! This interactive book becomes a personalized keepsake of their trip by the end of the visit.
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