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Summary: Ideal
Review: As a recruiter who frequently brings people into NYC, these guides are hands-down the best tool for learning to navigate the city. By eshcewing the "visitor's guide" stuff on the best place to get coffee in SoHo and the like they provide a trimmed-down overview of the city that's indispensible for anyone staying here an extended period of time. No other city guide is as consistently satisfying as these. We've been issuing them to our people for years and will continue to do so.
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Summary: Every New Yorker should have this handy guide
Review: Certainly veteran New Yorkers will snicker that they don't need "Fodor's Flashmaps New York" to get around town. And they may very well be right. However, as a New Yorker with many international friends I field countless queries about what to do in New York City when you get here. Let's be honest...the Big Apple is gigantic. And no matter how well versed you are about New York City...things change so quickly in this town that it is smart to have this tidy little book around just in case you happen to suffer from brainlock. And then of course sometimes friends ask for help for things for the kids or for their young teens. Moreover, some queries are specifically for daylight hours, nightlife, weekend activities or happenings in boroughs outside of Manhattan. This text can help. Additionally, Fodor's includes essential telephone numbers for hotels, places of worship, ballparks, schools and universities, airports, transportation, museums, art galleries, parks, shopping, dining, theaters, movies, libraries, consulates, hospitals and hip nightlife activities. Fodor's even provides zip codes but no e-mail addresses. This book is a great tool. It's small and can easily slip into the inside of your sports coat or if you have a normal size purse, just pop it in and you're set. Or better yet...carry it around in your back pocket (it fits). There are 61 maps and thousands of listings. It will help you walk around, take buses, ride the subways or take railways into the suburbs. In my opinion it clearly is worth the investment for metropolitans or for anyone who wants to visit New York City. One thing is for sure...it will save you plenty of time, and as everyone knows...time is an important commodity. Bert Ruiz
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Summary: Most valuable tool
Review: I bought this book a little over a year ago and have used it for several business trips. It is small and easy to carry, doesn't look touristy, and gives me a lot of confidence getting around Manhattan. The best $ I ever spent. You know how some people just seem to "know" New York even though they don't live there? Well, that's me now.
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Summary: A very handy guide for Native New Yorkers & regular visitors
Review: I don't know how the conversation started, but I was at the Union Square store of a major competitor of Amazon, let's just call it FarmStructures & Nobel Booksellers, and the security guard told me that he had relied on this book as a native New Yorker for years. So I bought it. And now *I* have relied on it for years. Whether you are looking for where the 'D' train crosses the '7' or where exactly Cornelia Street is anyway, this book is excellent. Museums, movie theaters, road maps and highways are all here. The shopping and restaurants sections are good for out-of-towners looking for the classics, less useful for New Yorkers looking for the next new thing, obviously. It's small, convenient, and well-drafted (the maps themselves are different colors so you can readily find what you're looking for as you flip through ' yellow is street /subway; pink is daytime attractions; black/blue for nighttime attractions). All in all, anybody living in or visiting New York frequently would find this useful. If you are a one-time tourist, though, you're probably better off going with something more comprehensive like Lonely Planet. Enjoy!
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Summary: A very handy guide for Native New Yorkers & regular visitors
Review: I don�t know how the conversation started, but I was at the Union Square store of a major competitor of Amazon, let�s just call it FarmStructures & Nobel Booksellers, and the security guard told me that he had relied on this book as a native New Yorker for years. So I bought it. And now *I* have relied on it for years. Whether you are looking for where the �D� train crosses the �7� or where exactly Cornelia Street is anyway, this book is excellent. Museums, movie theaters, road maps and highways are all here. The shopping and restaurants sections are good for out-of-towners looking for the classics, less useful for New Yorkers looking for the next new thing, obviously. It�s small, convenient, and well-drafted (the maps themselves are different colors so you can readily find what you�re looking for as you flip through � yellow is street /subway; pink is daytime attractions; black/blue for nighttime attractions). All in all, anybody living in or visiting New York frequently would find this useful. If you are a one-time tourist, though, you�re probably better off going with something more comprehensive like Lonely Planet. Enjoy!
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Summary: Visitor or resident, carry Flashmaps with you.
Review: I highly recommend that when you visit NYC you carry a copy of Flashmaps with you. It's a convenient subway and bus map, shows you all the neighborhoods, museums, post offices, etc. But the thing I use the most is the cross street lookup, which I relied on not just while new in NYC but also as a long-time resident.
I discovered the NYC Flashmaps many years ago when I asked a limo driver exactly where a business address was. He pulled out his Flashmaps, turned to the cross street page and told me the exact cross street in well... a flash. He told me no professional driver and no New Yorker should be without it. I bought my first copy that day and have been telling residents and vistors alike for years.
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Summary: An excellent tourist guide for NYC
Review: This 1/4" thick guide is excellent for visitors and locals in NYC, from the airport to finding the zoo. Easy to fit in your jacket pocket. It is well balanced for details on visitor's destinations of corporate offices, siteseeing, sports events, shopping, night clubs, and of course restaurants and hotels. It provides details for car drivers, cabs, metro, bus, in Manhattan as well as from NJTransit, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Also has an address finder, neighborhoods, and zip codes easily identified for you to find the easiest way to get there.
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