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Summary: essential resource - easy to read and compact
Review: I love this little atlas, I use it constantly for finding addresses and apartment hunting. The maps are well designed graphically and easy to read, streets show direction, and you can clearly see where the bus and subway routes travel over and under the streets. Manhattan is a collection of neighborhoods, and they are well defined on the maps. I like the fact that many buildings are named and the street numbers are shown on every corner. I also appreciate how the maps overlap from page to page. I withheld a star for 2 criticisms: First and foremost is the way the binding obscures part of each map, this is a problem when an avenue falls in the crease (I have the first edition with the cool cover, I hope they will correct the binding in a later edition). Second, there is no zip code map. Putting a bookmark on the index page and reading the symbol page will help you navigate this atlas, then get out there and enjoy my beloved city!
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Summary: My new favorite
Review: I picked this up along with the latest Flashmaps edition of Manhattan. I returned the Flashmaps book the next day. This little book is all a New Yorker or visitor needs to get around town. I especially liked the essays at the beginning. The development of the city's street plan is fascinating and concise. I can recommend the atlas highly.
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Summary: unbelievably comprehensive and informative
Review: It is hard to imagine anyone packing more fascinating and useful information into a single pocket-sized volume than Tauranac has packed into this one. It passes every test for good maps--most importantly, it can't help but tell you where you are and get you where you need to go. The introductory essays are written with a delightfully erudite touch--easy to read, yet informative and interesting. This little book sets a high standard. Highly recommended.
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Summary: MANDATORY!
Review: It should be MANDATORY that every person strolling the streets of Manhattan, and every cab driver in NYC (either fully licensed or "gypsy") should have in their possession a copy of this little pocket and purse sized gem. I have visited Manhattan many times, but never have I felt so confident as I have felt since discovering my way courtesy of Tauranac and his book of maps. Public Libraries, churches, playgrounds, theatres, statues of Mother Goose and Robert Burns, a former residence of Jackie Kennedy, etc., are all easily located, and much anecdotal information is provided. Buy it and enjoy Manhattan!
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Summary: MANDATORY!
Review: It should be MANDATORY that every person strolling the streets of Manhattan, and every cab driver in NYC (either fully licensed or "gypsy") should have in their possession a copy of this little pocket and purse sized gem. I have visited Manhattan many times, but never have I felt so confident as I have felt since discovering my way courtesy of Tauranac and his book of maps. Public Libraries, churches, playgrounds, theatres, statues of Mother Goose and Robert Burns, a former residence of Jackie Kennedy, etc., are all easily located, and much anecdotal information is provided. Buy it and enjoy Manhattan!
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Summary: the best gets better
Review: Tauranac's terrifically readable and portable Manhattan atlas is now updated to reflect everything that's happened since 9/11 and then some. It's worth buying just for the transportation info alone, although the amount of useful information packed into this completely user-friendly book will astound you. The maps are models of clarity and the index is amazingly comprehensive. BUT . . . what have they done to the cover! I vote for the prior version.
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Summary: All you ex-New Yorkers can fall in love with the city again.
Review: This book is perfect for your suitcase on your next trip back to Manhattan. Remember those ConEd chimneys on the East River? They're threre. And The Gramercy Park Hotel with its knotty pine lobby? That's there, too. This little volume was designed for New York the way New Yorkers see it -- on foot. It's also great for sitting by the fire in San Francisco (as I am now) and remembering where you were and who you knew in New York. The Lowell Hotel is my favorite [where F. Scott Fitagerald once lived].
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Summary: New York explained ...finally.
Review: This little book slips into your back pocket, where it sticks out just enough to be grabbable for quick reference. For the visitor, it makes all of New York - streets, subways, trains, neighborhoods - almost comprehensible. Succinct, yet amazingly detailed. The introductory essays - and some of the notes sown throughout the maps - are witty and graceful. In fact, it's hard to imagine that the guy who put this together is a New Yorker.
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Summary: Useful only to locate certain buildings
Review: This slender atlas basically is a street grid of Manhattan with street names, address blocks, and the names of institutions listed on it. Information is difficult to locate because--thanks to the slender nature of this atlas--the maps are crowded together, and a capitalized serif font is used. To make things a little easier, an alphabetical index of institutions are listed in the back. The Tauranac is not a visitor/tourist map, more of a slender street atlas for those who need to navigate through Manhattan, and or to locate specific institutions in Manhattan that are usually not listed on other maps. If you require a street atlas, get the Hagstrom Five Borough Atlas. Get Tauranac only if you need to locate buildings by name. The atlas also includes a subway and bus map, but the way it is drawn makes it highly unreadable.
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Summary: For natives and visitors alike
Review: Whether you're in New York every day or once a year you'll find this little volume a great treat. Written and compiled by an author of easy humor and astounding knowledge, and completely user-friendly. You'll find yourself looking for reasons to refer to it--and you'll learn something every time you do. I wouldn't be without it.
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