Manhattan Block by Block Street Atlas from Taurnac Maps providing very detailed, informative & easy to use coverage of the whole borough, with information on subway & bus services, house numbers, etc. The introductory section has an overview map of the whole borough naming its various neighbourhoods, plus provides notes on the use of public transport, house numbering system, changes in street names, etc. The middle section divides Manhattan into Lower, Mid, Upper including Harlem & Northern, & provides for each one separate one-page maps of streets, places of interest, subway lines, & bus routes. The main section provides detailed, block by block mapping annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Important buildings are named. The direction of traffic flow & restricted entry points are marked. The maps also show both bus & subway lines. The index is two sections: streets plus institutions/businesses. Also provided are overview maps of the daytime/evening bus & subway services. ...

Excellent laminated & waterproof tourist plan for visitors to New York City, combining a plan of the whole of Manhattan with enlargements for the Midtown & Financial District. On one side is the main part of Manhattan, stretching north beyond Harlem to Hamilton Heights, with the rest of borough on the reverse at the same scale of 1:15, 000. The adjoining areas of Brooklyn, Queens & Bronx are included. The plan indicates various places of interest, highlighting the city’s top 30 sights, selected hotels, subway stations with line numbers, railway, bus & ferry terminals, one way streets, etc. The plan also shows names of individual neighbourhoods (Greenwich Village, So Ho, Upper West Side, etc.) On the reverse, the Midtown area is shown in greater detail at 10, 000, extending from the East River to the Ninth Avenue & from the southern end of the Central Park to Empire State Building & Madison Square Garden (31st St.) Many individual buildings, famous shops, hotels & theatres in the Broadway/ Times Square area are named. A similar enlargement is provided for the Financial District at southern tip of Manhattan, including the World Trade Center Memorial Site. All the plans are indexed, with lists of streets, neighbourhoods, parks, hotels, public buildings, main sights & places of interest. Also

Includes:: in a diagram of the whole of the NYC subway network, a zip-code map of Manhattan, a small map of USA showing the states & time zones, & information on the city’s climate.

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Manhattan on a handy-format concertina map from Taurnac Maps, presenting on one side a bus map of the borough & on the reverse a street map. The bus map shows bus routes with line numbers & colour-coded to indicate the direction of traffic (uptown, downtown, west or east). A separate inset shows the night lines. The map has indexes of both the lines & main streets or terminals. On the reverse is a street map of Manhattan. Streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. Main places of interest are highlighted & named, & included on a separate list in a much larger street index. ...

Best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a tour of Manhattan`s most iconic neighborhoods in this anthology of all-new stories from Mystery Writers of America, produced to commemorate its 70th anniversary. In Lee Child`s The Picture of the Lonely Diner, legendary drifter Jack Reacher interrupts a curious st&-off in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. In Jeffery Deaver`s The Baker of Bleecker Street, an Italian immigrant becomes ensnared in WWII espionage. & in The Five-Dollar Dress, Mary Higgins Clark unearths the contents of a mysterious hope chest found in an apartment on Union Square. With additional stories from T. Jefferson Parker, S. J. Rozan, Nancy Pickard, Ben H. Winters, Brendan Du Bois, Persia Walker, Jon L. Breen, N. J. Ayres, Angela Zeman, Thomas H. Cook, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Justin Scott, & Julie Hyzy, Manhattan Mayhem is teeming with red herrings, likely suspects, & thoroughly satisfying mysteries. Illustrated with iconic photography of New York City & packaged in a handsome hardcover, Manhattan Mayhem is a delightful read for armchair detectives & armchair travelers alike! ...

For Porter Wren, a New York tabloid columnist, the city is the story: millionaires on the make & strippers on the clock; a woman with perfect teeth & a tragic past; a brilliant filmmaker found dead in the rubble of a demolished building. The story is always shocking but never a surprise. Until he steps over the line. A beautiful woman has entered Wren`s life, leading him into the netherworld her dead husband chronicled on secret videotapes
- & to a billionaire who wants one of those tapes badly. Suddenly Wren is on the run through the city that was once his beat, searching for the one thing that will set him free: the truth.
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Manhattan on an excellently designed, waterproof & tear-resistant map from Pocket-Pilot with on one side very clear & informative street plan of the whole borough with enlargement for the Midtown area & the 9/11 memorial, plus on the reverse more tourist information than found in some guidebooks to New York City. On one side is a street plan of the whole of Manhattan, presented in two sections from the Broadway & Henry Hudson bridges at its northern tip to the Governors Islands, Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty in the south, with names of districts & neighbourhoods. Subway stations are shown with names & where appropriate alternative entrances. Water taxi or ferry piers & routes are marked; many are annotated with fares, transit times, etc. For drivers, the plan indicates main traffic arteries & one way streets. A wide range of icons, accompanied by colour coded names, highlights numerous places of interest from museums, theatres & other cultural institutions to selected hotels & restaurants, etc. The Midtown district & the area around the National September 11 Memorial & Museum are shown in greater detail on enlargements. Distances on all the plans are easy to work out from the indexing grid. Street index is on the reverse &

Includes:: separate lists of parks/gardens/zoos, museums/galleries, theatres/cinemas/concert halls, religious buildings, plus other landmarks. Map legend is in the form of large icons running along one side of the map. The reverse side also provides a diagram of the subway network with information panels including details of access to JKF, La Guardia & Newark Liberty International airports, a map of the surrounding boroughs & counties, plus very extensive tourist information. Panels, cross-referenced to the street plan & indicating subway access, provide photos & descriptions of 36 top sights & 16 interesting quarters. Also provided are recommendations for shopping, eating, drinking, & dancing, all with contact numbers, suggestions for four day trips, plus a panel of useful facts about NYC including festivities & public holidays, main consulates, dos & don

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What do you picture when you think of New York City? For most, it is the city`s distinctive skyline, made famous bycountless movies & photographs. Everyone in Manhattan, whether first-time visitor or longtime resident, experiences the awe of gazing up at the soaring stone, steel, & glass towers of Wall Street or Midtown, & wonders how those structures came to be built. First published in 1999, Manhattan Skyscrapers was the first book to document the most important peaks in the city`s concrete canyons. From the earliest skyscrapers built in thecity--such as the 1896 American Tract Society Building--to the most well known, including the Woolworth, Empire State, & Chrysler buildings, the book has become the definitive reference work on the Big Apple`s skyline. Now available in a revised third edition, Manhattan Skyscrapers presents more than a century`s worth of New York`s most fascinating & important buildings. Each skyscraper is presented with informative & entertaining texts by New York Times contributor Eric Nash, a striking full-page photograph by architectural photographer Norman Mc Grath, archival images, interior views, & architectural drawings. In addition to the eighty-five buildings documented in previous versions of the book, Manhattan Skyscrapers showcases eight of the most exciting new skyscrapers built in the past few years. These wonderfully diverse additions to the city--the New York Times Building by Renzo Piano, the Standard Hotel by Polshek Partnership Architects, 7 World Trade Center by SOM, the Blue Tower by Bernard Tschumi, Bank of America Tower by Cook + Fox, 11 Times Square by FXFOWLE, 200 West Street by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, & 425 Fifth Avenue by Michael Graves--give an indication of how the city continues to evolve in the twenty-first century. Manhattan Skyscrapers is an indispensable book for both the serious student of architecture & the casual collector of all things New York. ...

Manhattan Streetwise in a series of handy concertina street plans from the Florida-based Streetwise Maps, covering the whole borough with Brooklyn Heights, with an index of streets & places of interest, plus a bus map. On one side is Manhattan with Brooklyn Heights extending north to the top of Central Park, with the northern part of the borough shown on the reverse. Subway stations are clearly marked & annotated with line numbers. Street index also lists neighbourhoods, places of interest, colleges & universities, concert halls & selected theatres, museums, hospitals & transport terminals. Also provided is a bus map of the borough. ...

A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos` ” Manhattan Transfer”



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In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural & economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence & sophistication, romance & formality, generosity & confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In ” Manhattan `45”, acclaimed travel writer & historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris` brisk, affectionate prose. Morris visits Wall Street, Harlem, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, & the Lower East Side. She rides the trollies, the El, the Hudson River ferries, & the Twentieth Century Limited. She dines at Schrafft`s & Le Pavillon, drinks ale at Mc Sorley`s Saloon, sips Manhattans at the Manhattan Club, & spots celebrities at El Morocco. She meets Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, Leo Durocher, I.B. Singer, & Dizzy Gillespie. & she tours the tenements of Hell`s Kitchen & the Gashouse district, as well as the Foundling Hospital where the crushing realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age. Taking into account both Social Register & slum, ” Manhattan `45” celebrates New York`s Golden Age as a place where, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible. ...