1 comments about Zagat 2008 New York City Map.

1. For new york city I actually like the Zagat restaurant map better then the guide. When one is in an area it lets you find potential restaurants quickly. I tend to use both the guide and the map together. It can be hard to find the Map in most stores.

3 comments about New York City 5 Borough Atlas: Laminated (Hagstrom New York City Five Borough Atlas (Laminated)).

1. This is the driving bible that NYC taxi drivers carry around with them when they need to look up some street they don't quite know where it is located. Sometimes it is used as an excuse when they are taking you on the 'scenic route' around town before charging you triple what is supposed to cost to go from destination A to B, but I digress. This atlas is excellent, and shows every street in every borough of New York; Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. There is little in the way of tourist attractions, and landmarks, so tourists may not find this atlas too useful, except as an accurate road map around town. There are several versions of this excellent atlas. The spiral bound pocket version is the smallest, and smaller does not mean tinier maps; it means the full-sized maps are cut smaller to fit into this book resulting in more pages to scroll through. Pages are laminated so you can simply wipe pages clean should you spill coffee on them.



2. This is the map book that NYC taxi drivers carry around with them when they need to look up some street they don't quite know where it is located. Sometimes it is used as an excuse when they are taking you on the 'scenic route' around town before charging you triple what is supposed to cost to go from destination A to B, but I digress. This atlas is excellent, and shows every street in every borough of New York; Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. There is little in the way of tourist
   attractions, and landmarks, so tourists may not find this atlas too useful, except as an accurate road map around town. There are several versions of this excellent atlas. The spiral bound pocket version is the smallest, and smaller does not mean tinier maps; it means the full-sized maps are cut smaller to fit into this book resulting in more pages to scroll through. Pages are laminated so you can simply wipe pages clean should you spill coffee on them. rkchin. more map reviews at http://www.nychinatown.org/bookstore/index6.html



3. Isn't the purpose of a map to tell you how to get from point A to point B?? Well don't count of this new computerized Hagstrom version too much... unless you've got some kind of magic car.
   
   I don't want you to think I am exaggerating. So I am going to enumerate the mistakes I found in two neighborhoods that I have lived in, Washington Heights (181st St area) and Riverdale (Kappock St area).
   
   Washington Heights / W. 181st St.
   * Pinehurst Ave between 181st St and W. 183rd St: don't try driving down this street. It's a set of stairs. Check the old Hagstrom (COH)!
   * 187th St. between Overlook Terrace and Fort Washington Avenue: that's a longer set of stairs. Look out. (Old Haggy got this wrong also.)
   * Mess of entrance/exit ramps just south of 181st St at Cabrini: don't even try to figure these out without going back to your old Hagstrom. Traffic flow directional arrows, people!! And don't try to get onto the ramp from that 179th St entrance...
   * Chittenden Avenue: uh... most of what is shown as here as Chittenden is actually woods. COH
   * And the best... Riverside Drive shown north of 181st St... IT DOESN'T EXIST!! What there actually is is an entrance ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway... an entrance that is not shown here!!
   
   Riverdale at Kappock St.
   * 227th from Netherland to Johnson Ave: doesn't exist.
   * Independence from Palisades to Kappock: not shown, DOES exist.
   * Palisades from Bradley Terrace (doesn't exist) to, well, Palisades Ave: not shown, DOES exist.
   * Henry Hudson Parkway access road south of 232nd St: uh, there's an entrance ramp here. And an exit. They did add some exit numbers but it's pretty damn difficult to tell where you get on and off, and there's at least one entrance/exit shown that doesn't exist.
   
   In short... I can't this book to get me around my own neighborhood. Do you think I am going to rely on this to get me around Brooklyn? Are you nuts??? Hagstrom, what has happened to you?

No comments about A Modern Garden: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art.

3 comments about Greenwich Village, Including The East Village and Soho: A Primo Guide to Shopping, Eating, and Making Merry in True Bohemia.

1. Some really great excepts of this book can be found at www.Greenwich-Village.Co



2. I went to greenwich village last month and I spent a week in the village. I picked up this book to guide my adventures and I was so glad that I did.



3. This is a terrific book, informative and there is a fantastic section which includes Robert Heide's personal memories from his days in the Village and with Andy Warhol. I live in the Village and after reading it my own vista has been enlarged. I strongly recommend it to everyone!

No comments about The Adirondack Mountain Club Canoe Guide to Western and Central New York State (The Adirondack Mountain Club Canoe Guide Series, Vol 1).

No comments about Daytrips, Getaway Weekends, and Budget Vacations in the Mid-Atlantic States: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington (Daytrips ... Getaway Weekends in the Mid-Atlantic States).

3 comments about Kids Take New York.

1. All of my friends in New York were talking about this book, so I bought one before my trip. It's great to have everything from shopping to restaurants, to what to do in one book and be able to carry it around. It really made New York with kids easy and fun!



2. Finally a "Zagat-like" guide for families. Although I have lived in the New York area all my life, New York with kids is a whole different place. This book has the inside scoop on activities, restaurants, shops and a ton of things I did not know. What's more-it's easy and it's fun to read.



3. This book is fabulous. I recently travelled to NYC with my 15 month old daughter, and was looking for a book with suggestions fo fun places to take her, and also wanted to know where the "cool" clothing and toy stores were. This book was right on target-answered everything I wanted to know and more.

No comments about New York's 50 Best Places to Go Birding in and Around the Big Apple.

No comments about Gramercy Park: An Illustrated History of a New York Neighborhood.

1 comments about Bridges over the Delaware River: A History of Crossings.

1. Covers the history of all non-interstate bridges across the Delaware with photos of nearly every edition of every bridge. The background information and stories of how each bridge came to be are engrossing and full of interesting detail. I expected to skim this book for information on bridges I was familiar with and ended up reading it cover-to-cover.