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Summary: The only book you will need to navigate Manhattan
Review: Fantastic reference, and the maps are even better. There is no need to buy any other book. A bargain at twice the price.
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Summary: Compact and informative
Review: I also purchased a DK guide to NYC. I found this map more practical than the DK guide, and easier to read and carry.
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Summary: Wonderful Guide/Map book
Review: I have used Michael Middleditch's Penguin map guides of London and Paris and found them to be attractive and incredibly useful, but they all pale before the excellent job he did with THE NEW YORK MAP GUIDE. For once, he does a great job showing bus as well as subway routes (a problem with the Paris and London guides). The introductory material on places of interest and the back-of-the-book guide to parks, New York architecture, entertainments, and walking tours are compact and exceedingly well done. My only complaint is that not exactly all of Manhattan is mapped: missing are Inwood, Washington Heights, Spanish Harlem, and parts of Harlem. Okay, so these aren't exactly the biggest tourist draws, but I would kind of like to see how to get to the Cloisters and a couple of other tourist sights. Perhaps the publisher should have drawn a few pictures of dragons and sea monsters along the unmapped tierra incognita... But why kvetch? So there's a slice taken out of the Big Apple! There's enough left to help fuel several excellent vacations. I couldn't imagine taking a trip to NYC without it.
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Summary: The Best Manhattan Map Guide by a New York Mile
Review: I have used Michael Middleditch's Penguin map guides of London and Paris and found them to be attractive and incredibly useful, but they all pale before the excellent job he did with THE NEW YORK MAP GUIDE. For once, he does a great job showing bus as well as subway routes (a problem with the Paris and London guides). The introductory material on places of interest and the back-of-the-book guide to parks, New York architecture, entertainments, and walking tours are compact and exceedingly well done. My only complaint is that not exactly all of Manhattan is mapped: missing are Inwood, Washington Heights, Spanish Harlem, and parts of Harlem. Okay, so these aren't exactly the biggest tourist draws, but I would kind of like to see how to get to the Cloisters and a couple of other tourist sights. Perhaps the publisher should have drawn a few pictures of dragons and sea monsters along the unmapped tierra incognita... But why kvetch? So there's a slice taken out of the Big Apple! There's enough left to help fuel several excellent vacations. I couldn't imagine taking a trip to NYC without it.
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Summary: It is the only guide you will need -Used it with no problem!
Review: I was on Vacation with my family and this is the best guide to use. Very simple. I was able to enjoy my trip and see all I wanted!
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Summary: Used It All the Time
Review: In a recent visit to NYC, I referred to the maps in this book constantly. The suggested walking tours are excellent, too. This book played a key role in making the big trip to the Big Apple enjoyable. Easy to carry around, too!
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Summary: Very user friendly
Review: This is a very user friendly guide to Manhattan. Even though I've had it for a couple of years, and now live near the city, I still use it. It has individual maps of evry part of the city. These maps are big, clear and full of information. You will not only get every street, you'll get the location of restaurants, clubs, places of interest, plus descriptions of these places and interesting things to do. I highly recomend it.
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Summary: bar none, one of the best
Review: This outstanding Broadway Playbill sized booklet, 64 pages in all, covers most of Manhattan only skipping East Harlem, and parts of Inwood. There is not much to fault these highly accurate maps containing landmark, shopping and entertainment information, except to say it is very colorful, informative, and detailed up to the point of information overload. The only one issue that can be a concern are the way Subway stations are marked, as red encircled "S"s with only the name of the Subway stop (not the subway line) listed next to it. To look up a subway station, one must refer to the included subway map. Also included in the guide is a map of the Bronx Botanical Gardens and Bronx Zoo, a map of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, neighborhood information, and a general calendar of events and festivals. rkchin. view more map reviews at http://www.nychinatown.org/bookstore/index6.html
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Summary: Used it all the time
Review: This was just about the most helpful of the guide books I bought or read prior to our recent trip to New York. Very helpful and worth the money. Great maps and current information.
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Summary: Wonderful Guide/Map book
Review: We took this guidebook with us to NYC 3 weeks ago and found it invaluable. The level of detail is wonderful, and the size is compact enough to fit in a purse or totebag. We used the book multiple times throughout the day for the subway map, the streets, locations of landmarks and other popular spots, the footpaths in Central Park, and on and on and on. I would highly recommend this guide to anyone going to the City.
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