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New York's Unique and Unexpected Places |  | Author: Judith Stonehill
Creators: Alexandra Stonehill, Ethan Hawke
Publisher: Universe
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 353967
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0789320118
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780789320117
ASIN: 0789320118
Publication Date: October 6, 2009
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Product Description
New York’s Unique & Unexpected Places is written for adventurers and dreamers who want to explore the city’s uncommon, but fascinating, less familiar sites. This beguiling book will delight urban enthusiasts, New Yorkers, and the countless tourists determined to discover—and sometimes rediscover—these fifty memorable destinations. Visit a cutting-edge center for architecture, a Dutch farmhouse surprisingly perched on Broadway, the sublime chapel designed by Louise Nevelson, idiosyncratic museums dedicated to finance and firefighting and subway cars, the historic home of Louis Armstrong, and a spectacular garden overlooking the Hudson.
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 NYC Journeys March 15, 2010
Goldbug (New York, NY)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a New York fanatic, I collect books about the city and was really happy to discover "New York's Unique & Unexpected Places." This book has sent me on a serendipitous journey, from Poets House downtown in Battery Park to Louis Armstrong's house in Queens. I even took the ferryboat across the river to the Chinese Scholar's Garden in Staten Island to see if it was as spectacular as described. It was.
The book is great: the writing is lyrical, the photographs are superb, the design is bold. So where will it take me next? I've bookmarked the NYC Transit Museum in Brooklyn, which should intrigue a young nephew visiting here on the weekend. My list includes the Hispanic Society of America, where I'll bring a friend who loves Goya's paintings, and then I'll go to Economy Candy as a reward for being a tour guide. I'm saving the Hua Mei Bird Garden for warmer weather.
Indispensable read for any true New Yorker. March 1, 2010
LA Coin Boy (Los Angeles, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Full disclosure, I am a friend of the the author and her family. Having said this, this was a great book to read, especially since I lived in downtown manhattan for almost 13 years, but the past 10 I have lived and worked in Los Angeles. I thought that I was a well versed new yorker who had seen most of what had to be seen in the years I had been here. I was wrong. This book makes you want to fall in love with the city all over again and will reawaken your sense of discovery about New York and all of its special places. Go ahead, be a tourist, get the book, read it and go discover these places for yourself.
A New York Must - Have October 18, 2009
Tim Gain (New York, NY)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
A terrific guide as well as a great read. This book takes you to many places in New York that I never knew existed. Not only am I happy to have one myself, I will be buying more as gifts for my native New Yorker friends. Most that I polled had been to less than half of the places featured, and there were several that none even knew about. A must for every New Yorker and lovers of New York.
Here we come! October 19, 2009
Joan Panus
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a marvelous treat "New York's Unique and Unexpected Places" was to read! Judith Stonehill has done all the legwork for our next trip to the Big Apple - we just have to decide which places to visit first. The write-ups are such fun to read, even if you weren't planning a trip to the "City". The beautiful photos by Alexandra Stonehill enhance the author's descriptions.
Best of all, this book is out in time for Christmas gifts - each of our children will be receiving one.
NYC here we come - eager and ready to take in these "special finds".
Fantastic guidebook! October 12, 2009
Spartacus (New York, NY)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a long-time New Yorker, I was amazed by some of the destinations in this wonderful guidebook. Not only had I not been to a number of the places, I had never even heard of several! The book offers a nice balance between cultural institutions, one-of-a-kind shops and parks, as well as a few pits stops for some very New York treats. I definitely recommend this book to all, and especially native New Yorkers who would like a reminder that New York still is an extraordinarily diverse city with hidden treasures waiting to be discovered....
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