Cultured Travel Guide Books - City Secrets: New York City |
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Binding: Turtleback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.4710444
EAN: 9781892145086
ISBN: 1892145081
Label: Little Bookroom
Manufacturer: Little Bookroom
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 586
Publication Date: 2002-09
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Release Date: 2002-10-01
Studio: Little Bookroom |
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Summary: best kept secret
Comment: I have an armload of NYC guides and this one is a delight to read. It is a love affair with the big apple and a great addition to a standard get around the city type book
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Summary: I just can't get past the lack of aesthetics...
Comment: I was soooo looking forward to getting this book - but I have to honestly say that the layout is so utterly boring that I just can't get past it. The book is full of beige, beige, and more beige (other than the black on white text that is).
For an individual that is "directionally-challenged", I would have difficulty locating where I'm supposed to be in the city based strictly upon written instruction. Plus, frankly, I love to look at the beautiful photography that can be found in some guidebooks (and some imagery would help determine if a particular walking tour was a good fit to the reader). I really think if the layout were made more appealing that more people would get into this book.
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Summary: Good but not for the short-term vacation turist
Comment: This book has some good secrets but i found some not very useful or interesting or yet non existant (or so secret they change the adress regularly). Depending on your profession look in the collaborators index for a person of whom you think you identify with or you like their resume and try looking at their secrets its the easier way i found to get some useful and intersting secrets (some colaborators are simply ill-chosen are i don tknow why they were found to be useful to adress in the book). BUt mainly if you are the 7 day vacation turist go for a amercian express ou rough guide to the city and you'll get just fine!
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Summary: keep your money
Comment: Every winter I spend a week in NYC -to attend the opera, theater, concerts, museums, etc. I hoped this book would offer me some unexpected, relatively undiscovered places to explore. Not so. A waste of my money.
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Summary: Explore New York
Comment: Great guide to quirky shops, less well-known sports and odd bitss of history. A joy to read and to guide your explorations.
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City Secrets has turned its innovative concept to New York, and the result is the fourth and—at 582 pages—the largest in this acclaimed series of guidebooks. City Secrets New York City, edited by Robert Kahn, is a breathtaking guide to art, food, architecture, and cultural landmarks in all five boroughs, written by more than 300 savvy and sophisticated New Yorkers. The entries range in tone from the literary to the conversational, the humorous to the scholarly. Together, this collection of vignettes forms not only a practical guidebook, but a dazzling panorama of the magnificent city.
In the pages of City Secrets New York City:
• A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist evokes a timeless Village bookstore
• An artist takes you on an intimate tour of three exceptional paintings
• A food editor invites you into the sepia-toned interiors of vintage saloons
• An architect introduces you to the tailor that fitted Ernest Hemingway in the 1930's
• A writer leads you to the Diamond District to find the best cheese blintzes in the city
• A producer recommends a Midtown coffee shop where actors, directors and producers can be found hatching the next Broadway hit
This elegant, clothbound book features a subtle, non-guidebook design, detailed maps of all five boroughs, and recommended reading. New Yorkers who contributed to City Secrets New York City include: novelists Michael Cunningham and Rick Moody, actors Laura Linney and Eric Stolz, journalists Anna Quindlen and Kurt Andersen, poet laureate Mark Strand, neurologist Oliver Sacks, architects Richard Meier and Philip Johnson, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, artist Brice Marden, playwright John Guare, designer Kate Spade, and many others, including historians, urban archaeologists, gourmets, curators, and filmmakers.
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