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Berlitz Pocket Guide New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
Berlitz Pocket Guide New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
Berlitz Pocket Guide New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
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Berlitz Pocket Guides: iconic style, a bestselling brand, this is the quintessential pocket-sized travel guide to New York, and now comes with a bi-lingual dictionary


Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide [with new bi-lingual dictionary] is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do and see in New York, from top attractions like the Brooklyn Bridge, to hidden gems, including places in Greenwich Village. This will save you time, and enhance your exploration of this fascinating city.


- Compact, concise, and packed with essential information, this is an iconic on-the-move companion when you're exploring New York
- Covers Top Ten Attractions, including the Empire State Building and Central Park and Perfect Day itinerary suggestions
- New bi-lingual dictionary section makes this the perfect portable package for short trip travellers
- Includes an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture
- Handy colour maps on the inside cover flaps will help you find your way around
- Essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around
- Inspirational colour photography throughout
- Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience

About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books, language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language products.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 1, 2019
ISBN9781785731730
Berlitz Pocket Guide New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Berlitz Pocket Guide New York City (Travel Guide eBook) - Berlitz

    How To Use This E-Book

    Getting Around the e-Book

    This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to New York, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.

    The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of New York, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.

    In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

    Maps

    All key attractions and sights in New York are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

    Images

    You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of New York. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.

    About Berlitz Pocket Guides

    The Berlitz story began in 1877 when Maximilian Berlitz devised his revolutionary method of language learning. More than 130 years later, Berlitz is a household name, famed not only for language schools but also as a provider of best-selling language and travel guides.

    Our wide-ranging travel products – printed travel guides and phrase books, as well as apps and ebooks – offer all the information you need for a perfect trip, and are regularly updated by our team of expert local authors. Their practical emphasis means they are perfect for use on the ground. Wherever you’re going – whether it’s on a short break, the trip of a lifetime, a cruise or a business trip – we offer the ideal guide for your needs.

    Our Berlitz Pocket Guides are the perfect choice if you need reliable, concise information in a handy format. We provide amazing value for money – these guides may be small, but they are packed with information. No wonder they have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide.

    © 2018 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

    Table of Contents

    New York’s Top 10 Attractions

    Top Attraction #1

    Top Attraction #2

    Top Attraction #3

    Top Attraction #4

    Top Attraction #5

    Top Attraction #6

    Top Attraction #7

    Top Attraction #8

    Top Attraction #9

    Top Attraction #10

    A Perfect Day In New York

    Introduction

    A city transformed

    A gorgeous mosaic

    A Brief History

    New Amsterdam

    New York

    The new republic

    Burgeoning town

    Mass immigration

    Highs and lows

    Historical landmarks

    Where To Go

    Downtown

    One World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial

    Battery Park City

    Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island

    Fraunces Tavern

    Wall Street

    Brooklyn Bridge

    South Street Seaport

    West Midtown – Theater District

    Times Square and Broadway

    North of Times Square

    West 42nd Street

    Central Midtown

    Bryant Park

    Rockefeller Center

    Fifth Avenue

    Museum of Modern Art

    East Midtown

    Madison and Park Avenues

    Grand Central and the Chrysler Building

    United Nations

    South Midtown

    Empire State Building

    Upper East Side – The Museum Mile

    Frick Collection

    Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Neue Galerie

    Guggenheim Museum

    Other museums

    Central Park

    Park highlights

    Upper West Side

    Lincoln Center

    Natural History Museum

    Columbia University Area

    Harlem and North Manhattan

    An historic district

    Washington Heights

    The Cloisters

    Other neighborhoods

    The Lower East Side

    The Bowery

    Chinatown

    Little Italy

    SoHo and Tribeca

    Greenwich Village

    East Village

    Meatpacking District and Chelsea

    Excursions to the outer boroughs

    Brooklyn

    The Bronx

    Queens

    What To Do

    Shopping

    When and where to shop

    What to buy

    Entertainment

    Theater

    Classical music and dance

    Film

    Dance clubs

    Cabarets and jazz clubs

    Bars

    Sports

    Watching sports

    Playing sports

    Children’s New York

    Calendar of events

    Eating Out

    Price

    Meals and meal times

    New York specialties

    Iconic delis and the pastrami sandwich

    Diners and coffee shops

    Bakeries

    Bagels

    Pizza

    New York cheesecake

    Steakhouses

    Burgers and hot dogs

    Carts

    Healthy fast food options

    Ethnic enclaves

    Restaurants

    Downtown

    Midtown

    The Upper East Side

    The Upper West Side

    A–Z Travel Tips

    A

    Accommodations

    Airports

    B

    Budgeting for your trip

    C

    Car rental/hire (See also Driving)

    Climate

    Clothing

    Crime and safety (See also Emergencies)

    Customs regulations

    D

    Driving (See also Car rental/hire)

    E

    Electricity

    Embassies and consulates

    Emergencies (See also Health and medical care and Police)

    G

    Getting there

    Guides and tours

    H

    Health and medical care

    L

    LGBTQ travelers

    Lost property

    M

    Maps

    Media

    Money

    O

    Opening hours

    P

    Police (See also Crime and Emergencies)

    Post offices

    Public holidays

    T

    Telephones

    Time zones

    Tipping

    Toilets

    Tourist information

    Transportation (See also Airports)

    Travelers with disabilities

    V

    Visas and entry requirements (See also Airports)

    W

    Websites

    Weights and measures

    Y

    Youth hostels and YMCAs (See also Accommodations)

    Recommended Hotels

    Downtown

    Midtown

    Herald Square, Murray Hill, Gramercy Park

    The Upper East Side

    The Upper West Side

    New York’s Top 10 Attractions

    Top Attraction #1

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    Brooklyn Bridge

    Stroll across this 19th-century icon. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #2

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    The Guggenheim

    As well known for its architecture as for its paintings. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #3

    Britta Jaschinski/Apa Publications

    Statue of Liberty

    Welcoming millions to New York since its dedication in 1886. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #4

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    MoMA

    Home to one of the world’s best collections of modern art. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #5

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    Times Square

    Get up close to the spectacle of this iconic world landmark. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #6

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    Empire State Building

    The famed skyscraper offers eye-popping views of Manhattan. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #7

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    American Museum of Natural History

    From dinosaurs to planets, it’s all here. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #8

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    Greenwich Village

    A laid-back feel characterizes the infamously bohemian ‘Village’. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #9

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    A vast and fabulous trove of historical treasures. For more information, click here.

    Top Attraction #10

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    Central Park

    Unwind in New York’s playground. For more information, click here.

    A Perfect Day In New York

    9.00am

    Breakfast

    Enjoy the quintessential breakfast of New Yorkers – bagel, lox, and cream cheese – at Katz’s Delicatessen on the Lower East Side. After breakfast stroll down Ludlow where you can window-shop the hip neighborhood’s boutiques.

    10.15am

    Lower East Side origins

    Just a couple of doors down from Delancey on Orchard Street is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Here you can step back in time and learn about the immigrants who originally populated the Lower East Side with a visit to the tenement building built in 1863.

    11.15am

    Walk to Brooklyn

    Continue heading south, through Chinatown, to the Brooklyn Bridge entrance at the end of Centre Street. Cross the bridge via the walkway to arrive in Brooklyn at the other side of the East River.

    12.30pm

    Pizza perfect

    A Brooklyn institution, Grimaldi’s Pizzeria (1 Front Street; exit the bridge via the first stairs) is a must. After lunch, wander along Water Street. Grab a hot chocolate from Jacques Torres before heading to the promenade along the East River in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The views of lower Manhattan are picture-perfect.

    2.30pm

    Old Masters in the afternoon

    Take the subway to the Upper East Side. The Frick Collection (1 East 70th Street) is a wonderful, intimate museum, much more manageable than the nearby Met. Built in 1913, the mansion of Henry Frick was designed to accommodate his growing collection of works by artists including Rembrandt, El Greco, Vermeer, and Gainsborough.

    5.30pm

    Central Park

    After the Frick, take a walk through Central Park, which is just across Fifth Avenue. There is an entrance two blocks north at 72nd and Fifth Avenue. Stroll to the Lake, Strawberry Fields, or the Shakespeare Garden.

    8.00pm

    Broadway

    Hit the Great White Way and enjoy one of the many Broadway or off-Broadway performances.

    10.30pm

    City lights

    Top off your day with a perfect panoramic view of the city with all its sparkling lights from Top of the Rock on the 69th floor of the Rockefeller Center.

    Introduction

    First-time visitors to New York usually come with wide eyes and high expectations. The quintessential urban landscape, the Big Apple does not disappoint. No matter what it is you are after, you will find it: great theater, marvelous museums, luxurious hotels, fascinating history, exciting nightlife, sumptuous dining. Peace and quiet

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