Not for Tourists 2010 Guide to New York City (Not for Tourists Guidebook)
- ISBN13: 9780981559124
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Get the book that started it all: The Not For Tourists Guide to New York City is a map-based neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide designed to lighten the load of already street savvy New Yorkers, commuters, business travelers and yes, tourists too. Each map is marked with user-friendly icons identifying the essential services and entertainment locations around town: everything from post offices, parking lots, restaurants, bars, hardware stores, and gyms to information on hotels, airports, public transportation, and city parks. This pocket-sized book includes 35 mapped sections on Downtown, Midtown, Uptown, Way Uptown, and the Outer Boroughs, as well as details on Parks & Places, Sports, Transit, General Information, and Arts & Entertainment. It is THE indispensable guide to the city. Period.
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Review by G. Pickart for Not for Tourists 2010 Guide to New York City (Not for Tourists Guidebook)
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Just bought the 2010 Guide. Lots of great detailed information. I also appreciate that they steer you away from overrated locations. HOWEVER, the paperback guide in like pt. 5 font. I’m sitting here reading it with a magnifying glass (not easy). For $17, don’t we deserve a little more paper?
Review by Glad M. Perez for Not for Tourists 2010 Guide to New York City (Not for Tourists Guidebook)
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In terms of information about NYC…restaurants, places to visit, transit options, parks, nightlife, etc. this little book is great. They are able to cram in more useful information about NYC than most other guidebooks I’ve seen. It’s very comprehensive too since it includes the outer boroughs besides Manhattan. In many ways, it’s all you need to carry with you while you’re in NYC. The maps are terrific and nicely detailed with pertinent information. One big negative is that the information is very, very difficult to read. You need a magnifying glass to be able to read the information; the typeface is much too tiny. I think the same information with larger typeface would make this book the #1 book to have when traveling/living in NYC.
Review by Daisy for Not for Tourists 2010 Guide to New York City (Not for Tourists Guidebook)
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I bought this book for my sister, who is a student living in NYC. She’s lived there for about 4 months (with my other sister has lived there for 3.5 years) so she’s definitely not a tourist, but neither is she a native New Yorker. We tried to use this book when I came up for a visit. I’m not sure why they list every Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks in each neighborhood. I’m pretty sure that locals already know and/or don’t care where those places are. Seems like something tourists would want to know. I was surprised at places that were left out, including a few places to eat and shop, which I thought would be appealing to locals. Also, the maps assume the reader is intimately familiar with all of the streets in each neighborhood. NYC is a big city, so while one can be a local in one neighborhood, I’m sure even long-time New Yorkers don’t know where every street in the city is. A grid on the map would have made things easier, or numbering each of the places of interest.
So while I hope this book is useful to sis, I don’t think it’s going to be the resource I thought it was. Thankfully, I also got her Off the Beaten (Subway) Track Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City’s Best Unusual Attractions, which I think would be much more interesting to locals than the NFT guide.
Review by Terri L. Worrell for Not for Tourists 2010 Guide to New York City (Not for Tourists Guidebook)
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My daughter recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY. I gave this book to her as a gift and she thanks me quite often for it. It has a map of the subway system that opens up from the last page and she said it has helped her soooo much. She carries it with her everywhere she goes in the city and said it is one of the best gifts she has ever received. She said she would recommend it to anyone who is moving to a big city. They have copies for different cities across the U.S.
Review by James Pernikoff for Not for Tourists 2010 Guide to New York City (Not for Tourists Guidebook)
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I like the concept of a “tourbook for residents” and this book might carry that off well, but only if you can read it! These books come in two page sizes and unfortunately this one is in the smaller size, which may be small enough to fit in a purse but cannot be read without a magnifier. If it were in the same larger page size as the Atlanta and Seattle books (which are still small enough to fit in a glovebox) I would have given it higher marks. Also, be aware that this is fundamentally a Manhattan guide only; other coverage includes only Hoboken and Jersey City to the west, and the communities bordering the East River, from Astoria to Red Hook and Park Slope, to the east. (They do publish companion volumes for Brooklyn and Queens, but they are also in the same puny size.) I hope the publishers see fit to do the next edition in the larger page size, and also do a book for the Bronx. This is a great idea, but in this case, poorly executed.