Product Description

This pocket guide to New York includes recommended places for the best eating and drinking, and "must-see" sights, such as Central Park. The chapters are arranged by area and colour-coded for ease of use. Each zone includes: a map, key to the sights, planned days and, star attractions. It also provides various articles to both set the scene and to find your feet, from airport information to shops. The locator map gives a colour-coded overview of the attractions and acts as a useful reference to the walks, and excursions provided inside the volume.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #310338 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 188 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
When wandering the streets and avenues of the Big Apple, it is not unusual to stumble upon a film crew, hard at work on the next big-screen blockbuster or the latest episode of Friends. The city location gives a production grit and glamour, the end result is that the city's image is spread throughout the world, making it one of the most familiar-looking places in the world. (New York's film and television industries spend in excess of $2.5 billion per year, playing an integral part in the city's economy.) New York City is possibly most famous for its skyscrapers, which provide a backdrop to the neuroses of Jerry Seinfeld and the drama of NYPD Blue. At 1,350 feet, the World Trade Centre takes the lead.

Whether or not this is your first visit to the city, the AA's Spiral Guide makes for a good travelling companion. Though small enough to fit into your rucksack pocket, it squeezes in 200 fact-filled pages, including glossy fold-out maps, a 28 page "magazine", chapters on Midtown Manhattan, the Empire State Building and Central Park and a useful section on practicalities, such as currency and foreign exchange, consulate contact info and tips on travelling with a disability. --Daren King

About the Author
Daniel Mangin spent 30 years experiencing New York as a tourist but now lives there, working for Fodor's Travel Publications. Lauren McGrath, a native New Yorker, has been a writer and editor of travel guides, various cookbooks, plus the managing editor for the James Beard House Magazine.

Customer Reviews

Witty, smart, delightful
My husband and I brought 3 guidebooks to New York but continually found ourselves using the Spiral guide. It's witty, smart, delightfully written and packed with historical tidbits. In the front are some short pieces, like magazine articles, about New York skyscrapers, old and new movies that have been shot in the city, old-time foods you can still buy or the great riots that have taken place. You get a real feel for New York's past and present, but it doesn't seem like a stodgy history. My husband and I really loved this book, and we're picky.

New York, New York
I wouldnt go anyway without my spiral guide and this holiday was no exception (Visited New York indepentely Oct 2003).

I converted to these guides some three years ago. I love the layout and siz of the guide - fits in your pocket nicely. It has a splashproof cover and the two flaps make great bookmarkers.

As for the contents, for this trip I found there was enough information for the larger tourist areas to point me in the right direction.

These guides are much easier to read than Lonely Planet if you want a good (but still comprehensive) overview.
I particuarly love the hints and tips for the 'must sees'.

Would highly recommend this guide - dont go without one

Excellent
I cannot enthuse enough about this guide. Bought on a whim whilst waiting for my flight, I read it cover to cover on the way over. Full of useful concise information with an easy-to-read layout (and the street and subway maps were god-sends!). We saw and did a lot more things with the help of this book (so thank you AA!).
When we got back to the UK we had to laugh - in most of our photo's from the trip, there is someone with their head in this book!