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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 400^th 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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• Amazon Sales Rank: #15082 in Books
• Published on: 2009-11-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780470487273
• Condition: New
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Discover The Best of New York City
Content from Frommer's New York City 2010

We all have our personal tastes: what we like to listen to in terms of music, what kind of food we enjoy, what we relate to in art and architecture. Personal taste is a subjective matter, and I (Brian) only pay attention to raves, whether they are for a restaurant, artist, musician, or film, if they are universal. If everyone likes it, it has to be good. Well, not always. Anyway, we’ve (Brian Silverman, Kelsy Chauvin and Richard Goodman) compiled our personal favorites below…for what we can call the “best of” in many areas from experiences to restaurants. You may not agree, but that’s what makes these “best of” lists fun. Just don’t take them too seriously.

New York City's Top Destinations by Category

The Most Unforgettable New York Experiences	The Best Events and Seasons	The Best Museums
The Best Places to Take the Kids	The Best Bites for All Appetites	The Best Shopping

From the Back Cover

Frommer's New York City 2010

With Foldout Map

• Hundreds of color photos

• Foldout map, plus detailed maps throughout

• Exact prices, directions, opening hours,and other practical information

• Candid reviews of hotels and restaurants,plus sights, shopping, and nightlife

• Itineraries, walking tours, and trip-planning ideas

• Insider tips from local expert authors

About the Author
Brian Silverman (Senior Writer; Best of New York City, Where to Stay, Where to DIne chapters) is a freelance writer whose work has been published in Saveur, The New Yorker, Caribbean Travel & Life, Islands, and Four Seasons. Among the many topics he writes about are food, travel, sports, and music. He is the author of numerous books including Going, Going, Gone: The History, Lore, and Mystique of the Home Run, and the Twentieth Century Treasury of Sports. For Frommer’s, he has written Complete, Portable, and Budget guides to New York City, as well as New York City For Dummies. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children. Born in southern Louisiana and educated in Seattle,

Kelsy Chauvin (Best of New York City, Shopping, After Dark chapters) now lives in Brooklyn. She is co-author of the award-winning Frommer’s MTV Roadtrips U.S.A. She is a writer and photographer of varied interests, with an emphasis in exploring absolutely anything one-of-a-kind and new (at least to her). With her wherever she goes are cameras, pens, postcards, stamps, and any of a series of tattered notebooks (www.kelsychauvin.com).

Richard Goodman (Best of New York City, New York City in Depth, Planning Your Trip, Neighborhoods and Suggested Itineraries, Exploring New York and Appendix: Fast Facts chapters) is the author of The Soul of Creative Writing and French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Review, Vanity Fair, Saveur, Commonweal, Creative Nonfi ction, Louisville Review, Ascent, French Review, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. He teaches Creative Nonfi ction at Spalding University’s Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky. He has lived and worked in New York City for 30 years.

Customer Reviews

Lively Design, Packed with Info
Compared to older travel guides that are composed of hundreds of pages of solid text, opening Frommer's Color New York City is like discovering a party -- nearly every two-page spread is livened with a map, color photo, or sidebar. To be clear, it isn't like the lush DK Eyewitness series (which is image-heavy at the expense of information), but rather very much like the Fodor's Full Color Gold series.

It's a complete guide to planning a trip, with sections detailing NYC history, boroughs and neighborhoods; hotels, bars and restaurants (limited to those most evocative of NYC -- readers are referred to the Internet for chains); sites, attractions and shopping; suggested itineraries and getting around; and a pull-out map (waterproof and durable).

While Fodor's seems a little more lush and professional, this Frommer's seems a little more personal and practical -- and, for me, preferable.

Belies the Disneyfication of Manhattan --- which is appropriate for most visitors
I have lived in New York since 2006. I find it extremely difficult to read this book. I flip through it, and put it down. It's too large and heavy (1.6 pounds) to carry without a backpack or purse; much of the information is generic and unchanged from the 2007 edition. I recommend the portable edition instead.

Most (80%) of the book is single-paragraph descriptions of hotels, restaurants, and other attractions; mostly free of New-York-only idioms or perspectives that are often found in television shows like "Saturday Night Live" or "30 Rock". For the restaurants that I've visited myself, I'd say that the book's descriptions are accurate.

About 10% of the book describes the "outer boroughs" (Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island). The rest is centered on Manhattan.

The dining maps support only one-way lookups. If you know the name of a restaurant you want, it's easy to find the location. That's not so useful, because each restaurant listing already includes the address with cross streets --- remember, most of Manhattan is a rectangular grid. If you are in a particular sub-neighborhood and you want to know what the book says about the restaurants nearby, the maps are useless: you can find the numbered locations, and then you have to scan the alphabetical list of restaurant names to match the number. Then you have to go to the index to find the page with the restaurant. (It may be on the adjoining pages, but there, the restaurants are grouped by price, which doesn't help find the listing.) At least four restaurants on the Midtown map are not in the restaurant index!

The safety blurb is too general. I would have liked to see a list of areas to avoid. Google "New York crime map".

The pace of change in New York makes it difficult to keep a book like this up to date. I agree with E. B. White, who wrote: "The reader will find certain observations to be no longer true of the city, owing to the passage of time and the swing of the pendulum. ... I feel that it is the reader's, not the author's, duty to bring New York down to date; and I trust it will prove less a duty than a pleasure." (1949) The mention of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (p. 92), which by late 2009 had acquired a new host, with Conan having started his all-too-brief tenure on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"; and the highlighted Tavern on the Green, which entered bankruptcy in 2009 and liquidation in 2010, only heightens the reader's awareness of vicissitudes.

I think the editors and writers have exercised great restraint by limiting the exposition to essential, practical information. If I were to have tried to write this book, the size would have doubled with meaningless trivia. Unfortunately, sometimes the descriptions can become too general or telegraphic, and the reader is expected to already know what the writer means. In the neighborhood descriptions, the paragraph introducing "The Flatiron District, Union Square & Gramercy Park" reads:

"These adjoining and at places overlapping neighborhoods are some of the city's most appealing. Their streets have been rediscovered by New Yorkers and visitors alike, largely thanks to the boom-to-bust dot-com revolution of the late 1990s; the Flatiron District served as its geographical heart and earned the nickname 'Silicon Alley' in the process. These neighborhoods boast great shopping and dining opportunities and a central-to-everything location that's hard to beat. A number of impressive new hotels have been added to the mix over the last few years. The commercial spaces are often large, loftlike expanses with witty designs and graceful columns."

I fail to see how this might convey useful meaning to anyone.

Great books, even for new yorkers! (better for families)
Me and my wife had moved to the big apple about two years ago, and own pretty much all of the tour guides on the subject.
As loyal fans of the lonely planet series, we had a really hard time believing that this book will have something new to offer,however, we were pleasantly surprised!
The Book's 486 pages are filled with great up-to-date information including very specific maps and excellent itineraries, for example: new york in 1,2 and 3 days, other boroughs in a day and many more to suit every desire!
this book is very well suited for families and people traveling with children since it offers everything from entertainment and food for families.
The first chapter is the itineraries and the 'top' everythings, and the next few chapters go in depth on how to plan a trip and how to get around in the city. The book continues to describe the neighborhoods, along with suggested itineraries, and finishes off with a list of after dark activities, shopping and a variety of maps.
All in all, a very recommended book, especially for those traveling with children.