Product Description

The Rough Guide to New York City covers all five boroughs of this exhilarating city. The full-colour introduction showcases the city’s many highlights, from the art-deco masterpiece The Chrysler Building, to the acres of green at Central Park. Special features include ‘Ethnic New York’, a look at the city’s cultural past, and ‘New York Architecture’ detailing the world’s most famous skyline. This fully updated edition explores New York’s history and culture, includes detailed listings on everything from the city’s best shopping areas to its free summer activities, gives practical information on getting there and around, and reviews all the best accommodation and restaurants for every budget. With new and expanded maps, more photos than ever and that practical grittiness you’d expect from a Rough Guide, this is the must have companion to the cultural melting pot of New York City. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to New York City.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3848 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Customer Reviews

Didn't leave the hotel room without it!
Read the whole book before going out and it proved invaluable on the holiday. Really helped plan what sights we wanted to see, as well as being a great source for finding restaurants and cafes wherever we were. The guide is organised into chapters for each area, then a directory at the back lists shops, restaurants etc by area as well which is very useful when you want to find somewhere specific. The maps at the back, including a subway map, are detailed and very useful and prevented us from ever getting lost. The guide is very descriptive with bits of history here and there making it an interesting read as well as filling you with enthusiasm and excitement for your trip. Highly recommended.

Good guide to an awesome city
Just back from two weeks in New York and DC. Both Rough Guides were helpful on our family holiday.
We did New York for a week, staying at Holiday Inn Long Island City.

The New York guide is the sharper book, feeling more current and tightly researched.

Chapters follow a Rough framework: Things-not-to-miss, Basics, Areas across NY (22), Context/History and Listings on where to stay, eat and shop.

Of 19 Things-not-to-miss, we visited only three. As the guide says, and as we found, "just wandering about can be an extremely fulfilling way to see the city".

The 'Basics' section is a good place to inform your arriving and surviving, for example buying a 7-day Metro Pass. The maps section is useful, identifying areas across New York, and detailing Streets and Avenues.

Rough descriptions of places we visited were spot on
- Pier 17 'fantastic views' (try to grab a seat upstairs)
- St Pauls Chapel 'moving ensemble' of 9/11 support (tiny church, big impact)
- Penn Station 'grimy' (don't plan to wait around)
- Rockefeller 'completely unobstructed views' (surely the must-do experience)

Our 15 year-old teenagers travelled with us. The half page of ideas for teenagers was good, but surely more is justified in a 450 page guide.

Overall, a good guide to an awesome city.

disappointed - no one told me Rough Guide had gone posh!
The last time I used a Rough Guide, I became very attached to it. The writing was funny and interesting, but most of all I appreciated how the the restaurants and hotels were listed from least expensive to most expensive. Back then, the guide really seemed geared towards the budget traveller -- and it made it seem acceptable to be a budget traveler!

But now, in this New York guide, the extravagant and the cheap 'n' cheerful are all mixed up, so that I have to wade through to find meals for less than $15.

To me it feels like Rough Guide has sold out, and is trying to attract the more well-heeled reader. Predictable, I suppose, as most business do this when they have a chance, but I'm still gutted.