No comments about Victor (New York): The History of a Town.

No comments about Ride Guide: Mountain Biking in the New York Metro Area (Ride Guide Series).

No comments about A New York City Subway Diary.

No comments about Weekend Walks in Dutchess & Putnam Counties: A Guide to History & Nature in the Eastern Hudson Valley, Second Edition.

1 comments about Harvey Wang's New York.

1. "(Harvey Wang's New York is) a little gem that celebrates the obscure New Yorkers who represent the city's diversity..." -Entertainment Weekly.

   "Wang's photos are direct, arresting, even soulful, and his character's stories are surprisingly poignant...No matter how many millions of stories are in the Naked City, these are sure to linger in your mind." - Los Angeles Times .

   `I can conceive of Harvey Wang's New York as readily as Liebling's, Walt Whitman's or Edith Wharton's...(the book is the product ) of a man who, like Balzac, intuitively understands the primacy of work in the lives of working people." -Albany Sunday Times Union.

No comments about Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World (Falcon Guide).

2 comments about Queer New York City 2002/2003: The Annual Guide to Gay & Lesbian NYC.

1. Aldous Huxley wrote, "For every great traveler who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written." That said, the editor has created a tremendously useful and compact volume that is much like what I would have written, were I able to visit all these places.

   Readers will find this guide good entertainment while traveling to New York (it's very readable, unlike others), as well as good for carrying as a reference while exploring the city (it fits easily into a pocket, backpack, or purse).

   This book was written with the audience in mind. It includes directions, websites, phone number, hours of operation, and includes points of interest that may be near a particular entry. While the overall organization of the book is by type of entertainment or activity, the index is arranged alphabetically as well as by neighborhood (a very helpful feature).

   Queer New York City is full of practical advice - the kind you would provide a visiting friend. It has a sprinkling of humor without being obnoxious, is clearly written to give the reader a good idea of what to expect from a particular establishment, and is never too wordy.

   If you're visiting New York City for the first time and are looking for places to go, if you're a regular visitor and want to expand your horizons and find places you didn't know existed, or if you're a native and want to give visitors a practical, well-organized guide to the queer side of NYC (the one you would write, if you had time), this book is for you.

   I hope they'll do this for more cities!




2. Oh, so chatty and friendly, everything this guide mentions, profiles, or reviews is simply F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S. To read this book is to think that every gay spot in New York is just shy of heaven. Even the biggest dive receives rave reviews. While giving high marks to everything and supposedly being "the authoritative guide to gay & lesbian NYC," it fails to know about new hot spots (particularly in the burgeoning Hell's Kitchen neighborhood). Good for addresses of places only.

No comments about Zagat 2008 New York City Book & Map Pack.

1 comments about Madison Avenue.

1. Swiss photographer, Mathias Braschler, shoots the denizens of New York's famed Madison Avenue. Taking his camera, over an 8 month period, up and down this one avenue, he reveals an urban portrait in naked black and white. These portraits show all the flaws, addictions, energy, broken dreams, fatigue and hopes of the myriad of people who live or work on Madison. Braschler shows us "the good, the bad, and the ugly", the immigrants, the executives, the old, the style-makers, and the rich. Most portraits are enhanced with one line quotations by the subjects, authenticating Braschler's stark vision. Although a "coffee-table" style book, the realities are occasionally sufficiently distressing to make strong social comment. At other times there is amusement, poignancy, and poetry.

No comments about The Hamptons Book: Including the North Fork and Shelter Island, A Complete Guide, Fifth Edition (A Great Destinations Guide).