Cognoscenti: New York City

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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: I always found using a map in one hane and a guide book in the other to be too cumbersome! I've finally found a neat clear fusion of the two in the COgnoscenti guides. I toured London with their London guide and had the time of my life! SO when it came time to see New york Cognoscenti was the only "guide" I bought. Clearly marked icons let me read info on the guide's flip side without losing my place on the map, the way I always did every time I'd refer to a book-type guide while trying to read a map at the same time. I highly recommend these guides.

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Summary: FINALLY! A Map with INFO!
Review: I always found using a map in one hane and a guide book in the other to be too cumbersome! I've finally found a neat clear fusion of the two in the COgnoscenti guides. I toured London with their London guide and had the time of my life! SO when it came time to see New york Cognoscenti was the only "guide" I bought. Clearly marked icons let me read info on the guide's flip side without losing my place on the map, the way I always did every time I'd refer to a book-type guide while trying to read a map at the same time. I highly recommend these guides.

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Summary: Cognoscenti, I adore you
Review: I have yet to find anything as well designed or pleasing to the eye as a cognoscenti map. The intellect, nay, sheer genius that was put forth in order to create a more perfect travel guide does nothing but boggle the mind of this lay-man. From the informative blurbs to the visually pleasing color combinations to the reassuring texture of the page, this map has it all. I can only wait, with baited breath, for the Middletown guide to come out, in order to see what I've been missing in my own backyard. Cognoscenti, you had me at "hello."

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Summary: Informative map
Review: Lots easier to use than a guidebook/map combo. This is a map and travel guide printed on one reasonably-sized sheet of new-age paper that doesn't tear, stain, wrinkle or show any signs of wear in 3 days of constant use in NYC. It has all the info you want and none of the extra words and pages of junk you don't need. Plus a nice layout that makes it quick and easy to find things, and a good choice of places to go. Travel lighter!

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Summary: This map was so good I almost didn't need to go to New York!
Review: These Cognoscenti things have done to maps what cooking did to food. They are highly palatable (readable) and edible (don't make me dizzy). I used to get into auto accidents using giant maps that would cover the whole windshield while I tried to drive, so you can imagine how skeptical I was when my friend told me about Cognoscenti "Map" Guides. Turns out these things are so clear ANYONE can use them. With my Cognoscenti Map Guide in hand I felt like I could help people around New York! It truly made New York accesible to people like me. Thanks Cognoscenti Map Guides.

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Summary: So Good I Almost Didn't Need to go to New York!
Review: Who are the people of Cognoscenti and how have they suddenly come to be making such wonderful map guides? It is as if they have plummed the depths of every wayfarer's knowledge of the great city and are out to tell all. I am an old man, wary of travel, easily confused, hesitant of adventure. But this guide has taken care of everything - well-labeled maps, distinctive descriptions of sites, a concise history of the area, suggestions for a memorable evening. Well worth it.