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City Secrets New York City
Series Editor: Robert Kahn
Format: Clothbound
Category: Travel - New York - Guides & Reviews
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 1-892145-08-1
Trim Size: 4-1/4 x 7-1/4
Format: Clothbound
Category: Travel - New York - Guides & Reviews
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 1-892145-08-1
Trim Size: 4-1/4 x 7-1/4
"The future of guidebooks." --Good Magazine
"In-the-know Big Apple-ites such as John Guare, Oliver Sacks, and Kate Spade share their city secrets . . . " --Vanity Fair
City Secrets New York City, the latest installment in architect Robert Kahn's invaluable series of insider guides for travelers, comprises recommendations from more than 300 writers, artists, historians, gourmands, and other notables . . . who live and work in New York. Entries in the form of personal vignettes explore everything from art to food, architecture to shopping, and music to landmarks, in all five boroughs." --New York Magazine
City Secrets New York City is an innovative guide to art, food, shopping, architecture, and cultural and historic landmarks in all five boroughs. Savvy and sophisticated New Yorkers share their personal insights into their favorite places, creating a magnificent grand tour of the city. Essays range in tone from literary to conversational, humorous to scholarly.
Contributors include novelists Michael Cunningham and Rick Moody, journalist Anna Quindlen and Kurt Andersen, poet laureate Mark Strand, neurologist Oliver Sacks, architects Richard Meier and Philip Johnson, MoMA director Glenn Lowry and many others including historians, urban archaeologists, gourmets, curators and filmmakers.
A portion of the sales of this book will benefit The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund and the Municipal Arts Foundation.
"In-the-know Big Apple-ites such as John Guare, Oliver Sacks, and Kate Spade share their city secrets . . . " --Vanity Fair
City Secrets New York City, the latest installment in architect Robert Kahn's invaluable series of insider guides for travelers, comprises recommendations from more than 300 writers, artists, historians, gourmands, and other notables . . . who live and work in New York. Entries in the form of personal vignettes explore everything from art to food, architecture to shopping, and music to landmarks, in all five boroughs." --New York Magazine
City Secrets New York City is an innovative guide to art, food, shopping, architecture, and cultural and historic landmarks in all five boroughs. Savvy and sophisticated New Yorkers share their personal insights into their favorite places, creating a magnificent grand tour of the city. Essays range in tone from literary to conversational, humorous to scholarly.
Contributors include novelists Michael Cunningham and Rick Moody, journalist Anna Quindlen and Kurt Andersen, poet laureate Mark Strand, neurologist Oliver Sacks, architects Richard Meier and Philip Johnson, MoMA director Glenn Lowry and many others including historians, urban archaeologists, gourmets, curators and filmmakers.
A portion of the sales of this book will benefit The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund and the Municipal Arts Foundation.
