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    Insight Guides Pocket New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
    Insight Guides Pocket New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
    Insight Guides Pocket New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Insight Guides Pocket New York City (Travel Guide eBook)

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    Insight Pocket Guides: ideal itineraries and top travel tips

    Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide 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.

    Compact, concise, and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal 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
    Offers an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture
    Inspirational colour photography throughout
    Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience

    About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    ISBN9781789193145
    Insight Guides Pocket New York City (Travel Guide eBook)
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      Insight Guides Pocket New York City (Travel Guide eBook) - Insight Guides

      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 Insight Guides

      Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

      Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

      © 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

      Richard Nowitz/Apa Publications

      Brooklyn Bridge

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

      Top Attraction #2

      Abe Nowitz/Apa Publications

      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

      Britta Jaschinski/Apa Publications

      MoMA

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

      Top Attraction #5

      Shutterstock

      Times Square

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

      Top Attraction #6

      Anna Mockford & Nick Bonetti/Apa Publications

      Empire State Building

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

      Top Attraction #7

      Shutterstock

      American Museum of Natural History

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

      Top Attraction #8

      Shutterstock

      Greenwich Village

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

      Top Attraction #9

      Shutterstock

      The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

      Top Attraction #10

      Shutterstock

      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 can even be found, in the rooms of high-rise hotels far above the teeming streets, or by venturing into the upper reaches of Central Park, or walking out onto the terrace overlooking the Hudson River at the Cloisters.

      At first, New

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