The Rough Guide to New York City
Language: English
Pages: 464
ISBN: 0241199212
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Rough Guide to New York City is the ultimate travel guide to the city that never sleeps. With full color throughout and dozens of photos to illustrate New York City's great buildings, iconic landmarks, and distinctive neighborhoods, this updated guidebook will show you the best the city has to offer.
The Rough Guide to New York City includes itineraries to help you explore all the must-see sights, discover great places to eat, and experience the city outside of the traditional tourist's path. You'll also find detailed information neighborhood-by-neighborhood, whether you want to visit the historic Financial District, Chelsea's High Line park, the churches of Harlem, Brooklyn's Coney Island, or even the farthest reaches of the Bronx.
New York City has something for everyone — art galleries and museums, festivals and nightlife — and The Rough Guide to New York City uncovers it all, revealing hidden gems in some of the most popular areas and including all kinds of highlights in its "Top 5" lists. Detailed color maps for each neighborhood, plus a subway map and practical information on all the essentials, make getting around easy.
Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to New York City.
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Place, a renovated mews built in the 1850s. Writer Thomas Wolfe lived in the basement at no. 40 in the 1930s and described the apartment in his novel You Can’t Go Home Again: “Here, in winter, the walls… sweat continuously with clammy drops of water. Here, in summer, it is he who does the sweating.” Living conditions weren’t nearly so dismal in the nearby Home Buildings, a tidy row of redbrick cottages lining a pedestrian mews, Warren Place. Built in 1878 as utopian workers’ housing, the 44
less-trammelled strip of sand and some pricey real estate to match. Just above Manhattan Beach is maritime Sheepshead Bay – worth visiting to walk along the marina and dine on clams at Randazzo’s. The B and Q lines run to Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay. < Back to Brooklyn QUEENS Long Island City and Astoria Sunnyside and Woodside Jackson Heights Corona and Flushing Meadows Flushing Jamaica Bay With its ever-shifting ethnic composition and frankly utilitarian housing stock, Queens
278 Spring St • Daily 10am–5pm • $8; seniors, students and 12 and under $5 • 212 691 1303, nycfiremuseum.org • Subway C, E to Spring St, #1 to Houston St Housed in a 1904 Beaux Arts fire station just off Varick Street in the area known as Hudson Square, the New York City Fire Museum displays old fire trucks dating back to the 1840s and plenty of art and NYFD memorabilia, but also acts as a touching memorial to the 343 firefighters who died on September 11. The NYFD lost 778 men in the line of
settlers from Campania and Naples on Mulberry, Sicilians on Elizabeth, and Mott Street divided between Calabrians (south end) and immigrants from Puglia (north end). After World War II, the Italians started moving out of the city (though Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro roamed the area in the 1950s), and the neighbourhood is much smaller and more commercial than it once was, with Chinatown encroaching on three sides – Mulberry Street is the only Italian territory south of Broome Street.
park from Coney Island in 1951, this is one of the park’s little gems. There are fewer than 150 such vintage handmade carousels left in the country (others in New York City are in Prospect Park, Dumbo, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park and Forest Park). A ride on it is a magical experience: its wood-carved, colourfully painted jumping horses are accompanied by the music of a military-band organ. The Mall Heading north from the Dairy, you’ll pass through the avenue of trees known as The Mall. The