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Eyewitness Guide New York •  Eleanor Berman
GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 432 PAGES
There are hundreds of guides, of course, but we like this one the best. It's a very colorful, artfully designed introduction, with a focus on sites, history, and architecture, along with great local maps. We see more visitors in our West Village neighborhood carrying it around than any other, and they all seem to love it. (NYC02, $25.00)

Here is New York •  E.B. White
CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1999 • HARD COVER • 56 PAGES • FAVORITE
Perhaps no one has captured the city as lyrically, and certainly none as efficiently, as E.B. White. This brief essay (it was originally a 7500-word piece for Holiday magazine, and is easily read in an hour) was written in a hot hotel room over a 2-day period in the summer of 1948. The famous opening line ("On anyone who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.") sets the stage for a portrait of the city that moves from Broadway to Central Park, from the horn of the great steamships to the dark of the bars on 3rd Avenue. Though, as Roger Angell points out in the introduction to the new edition, so much of what he mentions is no longer here (the hotel cafe he hung out in was gone even by the time the piece was first published in 1949), the prose has an amazingly timeless, fresh quality to it, and is a marvelous introduction to what people still love about New York City. (NYC28, $16.95)

New York City Map (NY Unfolds) •   VanDam
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This convenient map of New York (1:25,000 scale) has a clever "origami" fold to help the traveler refer to any location in the city without having to deal with an unwieldy and large piece of paper. If there's any city where this would come in handy, it's New York. (NYC26, $7.95)

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Fodor's New York City's 25 Best •   Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket guide to New York City, featuring a detailed, fold-out map centered on Midtown. With suggested itineraries, walks and top 25 sights. (USE36, $11.95)

Central Park, An American Masterpiece •  Sara Cedar Miller • HISTORY • Written and photographed by Central Park's official historian, this visual history of New York's crown jewel pairs modern color images with drawings, plans and quotes by park designers. (NYC94, $45.00)

Downtown, My Manhattan •  Pete Hamill • HISTORY • Native son Pete Hamill's tribute, history and memoir of New York, mostly below 42nd Street. (NYC148, $14.99)

Gotham, A History of New York up to 1898 •  Mike Wallace •  Edwin G. Burrows • HISTORY • This 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for history is a vast volume that traces the Dutch colonization to 1898. Jam-packed with tales of crime, violence, corruption, riots and ethnic struggles, it is anything but dull. Highly recommended. (NYC11, $34.95)

The Island at the Center of the World, The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America •  Russell Shorto • HISTORY • Shorto's popular history of New Amsterdam tells in colorful detail how the short-lived Dutch colony established the principles of tolerance, multiculturalism and modern capitalism (NYC153, $15.95)

Lost New York •  Nathan Silver • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This classic, published in 1967, was the urban preservationists' bible. It's a magnificent survey of the history and architectural development of the city, including many of the great buildings lost to the wrecking ball. (NYC13, $25.00)

Gone to New York, Adventures in the City •  Ian Frazier •  Jamaica Kincaid • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Frazier writes with humor and warmth about his New York City in this collection of essays originally published in periodicals like The New Yorker and The Atlantic. (NYC156, $14.00)

Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories •  Joseph Mitchell • ANTHOLOGY • Mitchell's collection of loving, extraordinarily vivid, short pieces, depicting New York in the 40's and 50's He was a master at painting character, and place, in swift strokes. (NYC61, $16.95)

Time and Again •  Jack Finney • LITERATURE • In this altogether wonderful novel, Simon Morley -- an illustrator and secret government operative, native to 1970 New York -- is transported back in time to the Manhattan of the 1880s. (NYC45, $14.95)

Writing New York, A Literary Anthology •  Philip Lopate • LITERATURE • A massive, satisfying collection of good writing about New York over the centuries. Represented are Whitman, Edith Wharton, Henry Miller and many more. (NYC59, $19.95)

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	Eyewitness Guide New York • Eleanor Berman GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 432 PAGES There are hundreds of guides, of course, but we like this one the best. It's a very colorful, artfully designed introduction, with a focus on sites, history, and architecture, along with great local maps. We see more visitors in our West Village neighborhood carrying it around than any other, and they all seem to love it. (NYC02, $25.00)
	Here is New York • E.B. White CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1999 • HARD COVER • 56 PAGES • FAVORITE Perhaps no one has captured the city as lyrically, and certainly none as efficiently, as E.B. White. This brief essay (it was originally a 7500-word piece for Holiday magazine, and is easily read in an hour) was written in a hot hotel room over a 2-day period in the summer of 1948. The famous opening line ("On anyone who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.") sets the stage for a portrait of the city that moves from Broadway to Central Park, from the horn of the great steamships to the dark of the bars on 3rd Avenue. Though, as Roger Angell points out in the introduction to the new edition, so much of what he mentions is no longer here (the hotel cafe he hung out in was gone even by the time the piece was first published in 1949), the prose has an amazingly timeless, fresh quality to it, and is a marvelous introduction to what people still love about New York City. (NYC28, $16.95)
	New York City Map (NY Unfolds) • VanDam MAP This convenient map of New York (1:25,000 scale) has a clever "origami" fold to help the traveler refer to any location in the city without having to deal with an unwieldy and large piece of paper. If there's any city where this would come in handy, it's New York. (NYC26, $7.95)

	Fodor's New York City's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket guide to New York City, featuring a detailed, fold-out map centered on Midtown. With suggested itineraries, walks and top 25 sights. (USE36, $11.95)
	Central Park, An American Masterpiece • Sara Cedar Miller • HISTORY • Written and photographed by Central Park's official historian, this visual history of New York's crown jewel pairs modern color images with drawings, plans and quotes by park designers. (NYC94, $45.00)
	Downtown, My Manhattan • Pete Hamill • HISTORY • Native son Pete Hamill's tribute, history and memoir of New York, mostly below 42nd Street. (NYC148, $14.99)
	Gotham, A History of New York up to 1898 • Mike Wallace • Edwin G. Burrows • HISTORY • This 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for history is a vast volume that traces the Dutch colonization to 1898. Jam-packed with tales of crime, violence, corruption, riots and ethnic struggles, it is anything but dull. Highly recommended. (NYC11, $34.95)
	The Island at the Center of the World, The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America • Russell Shorto • HISTORY • Shorto's popular history of New Amsterdam tells in colorful detail how the short-lived Dutch colony established the principles of tolerance, multiculturalism and modern capitalism (NYC153, $15.95)
	Lost New York • Nathan Silver • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This classic, published in 1967, was the urban preservationists' bible. It's a magnificent survey of the history and architectural development of the city, including many of the great buildings lost to the wrecking ball. (NYC13, $25.00)
	Gone to New York, Adventures in the City • Ian Frazier • Jamaica Kincaid • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Frazier writes with humor and warmth about his New York City in this collection of essays originally published in periodicals like The New Yorker and The Atlantic. (NYC156, $14.00)
	Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories • Joseph Mitchell • ANTHOLOGY • Mitchell's collection of loving, extraordinarily vivid, short pieces, depicting New York in the 40's and 50's He was a master at painting character, and place, in swift strokes. (NYC61, $16.95)
	Time and Again • Jack Finney • LITERATURE • In this altogether wonderful novel, Simon Morley -- an illustrator and secret government operative, native to 1970 New York -- is transported back in time to the Manhattan of the 1880s. (NYC45, $14.95)
	Writing New York, A Literary Anthology • Philip Lopate • LITERATURE • A massive, satisfying collection of good writing about New York over the centuries. Represented are Whitman, Edith Wharton, Henry Miller and many more. (NYC59, $19.95)