Hagstrom New York City 5 Borough Atlas: Laminated (HAGSTROM NEW YORK CITY FIVE BOROUGH ATLAS (LAMINATED))

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Summary: Bring back the hand drawn Hagstroms!!! This is inaccurate!!
Review: Isn't the purpose of a map to tell you how to get from point A to point B?? Well don't count of this new computerized Hagstrom version too much... unless you've got some kind of magic car.

I don't want you to think I am exaggerating. So I am going to enumerate the mistakes I found in two neighborhoods that I have lived in, Washington Heights (181st St area) and Riverdale (Kappock St area).

Washington Heights / W. 181st St.
* Pinehurst Ave between 181st St and W. 183rd St: don't try driving down this street. It's a set of stairs. Check the old Hagstrom (COH)!
* 187th St. between Overlook Terrace and Fort Washington Avenue: that's a longer set of stairs. Look out. (Old Haggy got this wrong also.)
* Mess of entrance/exit ramps just south of 181st St at Cabrini: don't even try to figure these out without going back to your old Hagstrom. Traffic flow directional arrows, people!! And don't try to get onto the ramp from that 179th St entrance...
* Chittenden Avenue: uh... most of what is shown as here as Chittenden is actually woods. COH
* And the best... Riverside Drive shown north of 181st St... IT DOESN'T EXIST!! What there actually is is an entrance ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway... an entrance that is not shown here!!

Riverdale at Kappock St.
* 227th from Netherland to Johnson Ave: doesn't exist.
* Independence from Palisades to Kappock: not shown, DOES exist.
* Palisades from Bradley Terrace (doesn't exist) to, well, Palisades Ave: not shown, DOES exist.
* Henry Hudson Parkway access road south of 232nd St: uh, there's an entrance ramp here. And an exit. They did add some exit numbers but it's pretty damn difficult to tell where you get on and off, and there's at least one entrance/exit shown that doesn't exist.

In short... I can't this book to get me around my own neighborhood. Do you think I am going to rely on this to get me around Brooklyn? Are you nuts??? Hagstrom, what has happened to you?

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Summary: the nyc taxi driver reference
Review: This is the driving bible that NYC taxi drivers carry around with them when they need to look up some street they don't quite know where it is located. Sometimes it is used as an excuse when they are taking you on the 'scenic route' around town before charging you triple what is supposed to cost to go from destination A to B, but I digress. This atlas is excellent, and shows every street in every borough of New York; Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. There is little in the way of tourist attractions, and landmarks, so tourists may not find this atlas too useful, except as an accurate road map around town. There are several versions of this excellent atlas. The spiral bound pocket version is the smallest, and smaller does not mean tinier maps; it means the full-sized maps are cut smaller to fit into this book resulting in more pages to scroll through. Pages are laminated so you can simply wipe pages clean should you spill coffee on them.

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Summary: NYC Taxi Driver Bible (2nd to "How to drive like a Madman"by
Review: This is the map book that NYC taxi drivers carry around with them when they need to look up some street they don't quite know where it is located. Sometimes it is used as an excuse when they are taking you on the 'scenic route' around town before charging you triple what is supposed to cost to go from destination A to B, but I digress. This atlas is excellent, and shows every street in every borough of New York; Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. There is little in the way of tourist
attractions, and landmarks, so tourists may not find this atlas too useful, except as an accurate road map around town. There are several versions of this excellent atlas. The spiral bound pocket version is the smallest, and smaller does not mean tinier maps; it means the full-sized maps are cut smaller to fit into this book resulting in more pages to scroll through. Pages are laminated so you can simply wipe pages clean should you spill coffee on them.