New York City Travel

Selected Books

Grimes, William
Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
Former New York Times restaurant critic (1999-2003) Grimes chronicles the history of eating out in New York City from the early 1800s to the present.

Hauck-Lawson, Annie and Jonathan Deutsch (Editors)
Gastropolis: Food and New York City
GT2853.U5 G37 2009
This collection of essays on food in New York City, begins with its founding in 1624 and chronicles subsequent waves of immigrants, their foods and foodways and how they have been amalgamated into New York cuisine.

Knutsen, Chris and Valerie Steiker
Brooklyn Was Mine
F129.B7 B823 2008
A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers. Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn.

Nevius, Michelle and James
Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City
F128.18.N34 2009
This extremely thorough and comprehensive sidewalk-level guide is written by a husband and wife tour guide team and includes 14 walking tours.

Onofri, Adrienne
Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets, and Waterways
F129.B7 O56 2007x
Onfori, a native New Yorker, travel writer and tour guide, takes readers on 30 walking tours of Brooklyn, relating what readers will see along the way and the history, culture, and trivia, as well as providing information on points of interest such as restaurants, museums, parks, and nightlife.

Schwartz, Arthur
Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food
TX715.S1457 2004
Although it contains more than 100 legendary recipes, this book emphasizes the history of New York City food, including restaurants and ethnic groups (Germans, Irish, Jews, Italians, etc.). Very nicely illustrated with historic and current photos.

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Online City Guides

• Frommer's Destinations: New York City
  This website includes information from Arthur Frommer's current guide book and covers best hotel and dining bets, favorite experiences, health & safety, planning a trip, for foreign visitors, getting to know New York City (neighborhoods), accommodations, dining, attractions, nightlife, shopping, organized tours, spectator sports, Central Park, and Traveler's Guide to Art & Architecture.
• Manhattan User's Guide
  called "the best insider's guide" by the New York Post, publishes a monthly newsletter –now exclusively online – that features the best of New York. With 8 years of searchable, constantly updated, articles.
• New York City
  The Official New York City Web Site provides information on city agencies, programs and services, and links to external sites on cultural, educational, and recreational activities. Click on their "Visitors" section for information on where to stay and eat, what to do and see, and how to get around.
• www.nyc.com
  Guides to hotels, attractions, music, nightlife, restaurants, etc.
• NYCgo.com
  This is the city's official tourism web site, brought to you by NYC & Company -— the city's official tourism marketing organization. A private non-profit, NYC & Company has a membership of more than 1,500 businesses, including museums, hotels, restaurants, retail stores, theaters, tour organizations, and attractions. Topics covered by the website are What's New, Accommodations, Calendar of Events, Planning Your Trip, Free Vacation Guide, Things To Do, Services, Itineraries, Getting Around, Maps & Neighborhoods, Special Offers, Restaurants, and NYC Info.
• New York Magazine
  Includes weekend getaways, best of New York Eating, Cheap Eats, shopping, entertainment, restaurants, etc.
• New York Times: Travel: New York City
  A collection of free articles and multimedia from The Times as well as hotel, restaurant, sightseeing information and travel tips from Fodor's.
  • A Literary Map of Manhattan
• Time Out: New York
  One of a series of City Guides from a British Publisher. This is a good guide to inexpensive and moderate restaurants and accommodations.

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Neighborhoods

• Big Apple Greeter
  A free public service that helps visitors discover the hidden treasures of New York City, the world's most exciting and diverse city.
• Visit Brooklyn
  Information from the Brooklyn Tourism and Visitors Center.
• Chinatown New York City
  Chinatown New York City, the largest Chinatown in the United States, is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Manhattan. Whether you’re seeking the best in Chinese food, Asian groceries, shopping or guided tours, come Explore Chinatown to find it all! The Explore Chinatown campaign is a project of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation.
• Discover Queens
  Ten reasons why you should visit Queens.
• Flushing Local: Number Seven Train
  This "International Express" runs from Times Square in New York City through Queens to Flushing. The number seven train passes above so many ethnic and new immigrant communities on its seven-mile route through northwest Queens that it has been dubbed the International Express. You can order a brochure about it from the Queens Council on the Arts. And you can get an all-you-can-ride Metrocard from New York City Transit so that you can get on and off as many times as you like.
• Heart of Brooklyn
  A Cultural Partnership is a unique consortium among the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park Alliance and Prospect Park Zoo.
• Little Italy
  The official website for New York City's Little Italy district includes directions on how to get there by public transportation and an interactive map with restaurants.

• National Geographic: New York Underground
  Not exactly a neighborhood, check out what's under the streets.
• New York Public Library
  Links to web sites and information for the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, prepared by the librarians of New York Public Library.
  • The Bronx on the Web
  • Manhattan on the Web
  • Staten Island on the Web
• New York Times: Local Stop: Arthur Avenue, At Every Turn, the Tastes of Italy
  Arthur Avenue in the Bronx still has some of the taste of Italy that it had 50 years ago.
• NYC24
  Built by the New Media Workshop at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and consisting of multimedia projects done by students, this website will give you interesting and unconventional glimpses into the life of New York City.
• Washington Post: A Day in New York
  With Excursions for ... The Adventurer, The Nosher, The Tourist Trapper, The Culture Hound, The Family Guy.

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News, Media, Weather, Calendars

• NYC Arts
  A Culture Guide and Calendar from the Alliance for the Arts to help visitors and New Yorkers make better use of the amazing number of cultural attractions throughout the city's five boroughs.
  • NYC Kids Arts
    A version for kids events
• New York Radio Guide
  A great guide to AM and FM stations with information, schedule, website, and whether or not they have audio broadcasts over the Internet.
• New York Times
  Includes entertainment and an NYC Guide.
• The New Yorker
  Check out their "Goings On About Town" and "The Critics" for movie, music, art, theater, and entertainment reviews in the Big Apple.
• Newsday
  This New York Daily newspaper offers an Entertainment section with movies, theater, restaurants, broadway shows, and city guide.
• PAPERMAG
  An online entertainment guide for New York. Includes paper daily with what's happening today.

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Transportation

• Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)
  includes maps and schedules of subways, bus, and rail transit
• New Jersey Transit
  Official web page. Click your rail station from their route maps, choose your destination and they will retrieve the schedule and rates.
• New York City Bike Maps
  All kinds of information about biking in New York City including information on annual tours like the NYC Century Bike Tour. Get to know New York City!
• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
  Under airports, contains information about John F. Kennedy International Airport(JFK), La Guardia Airport (LGA), and Newark International Airport (EWR), as well as information about PATH.

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Food and Drink

Web Sites

• New York Magazine: Restaurants
  Includes a restaurant finder with menus. You can browse by cuisine, by neighborhood, by price range. They also have a Best of New York list.
• New York Times: Dining & Wine
  • New York Times: Best of New York Dining
    Learn about the best hot dogs, best heroes, best ramen, best delivery...
• NoshNews
  NoshNews is a newsletter by Myra Alperson, available in print and PDF format, that profiles the best, most interesting and most fun markets, bakeries and eateries in ethnic neighborhoods in New York City. She also has a book available: Nosh New York : the food lover's guide to New York City's most delicious neighborhoods.
• Savory Sojourns
  Exclusive, customized, personally guided self-formed group tours of New York City's restaurants and foodworthy neighborhoods.

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Accomodations

• Apple Core Hotels
  Apple Core Hotels is a private company that runs five hotels under names you're probably familiar with — Comfort Inn, Super 8, La Quinta, Red Roof and Ramada, in the middle of downtown Manhattan.
• Hostels in New York City
  Budget accommodations for the young at heart.
• NYC.com: Hotels
  Extensive list of New York City hotels.
• Washington Post: We'll Take Manhattan - for Less Than $200 a Night
  Their staff conducted an online search of Expedia.com, Quikbook.com and Hotels.com in March of 2006 and then, after overnight stays and property tours, came up with 15 hotels they wholeheartedly recommend.
  • Readers' Choice: 8 More NYC Hotels Under $200 a Night

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Attractions

• American Museum of Natural History
  Located at Central Park West and 79th Street. Their website will tell you what their current exhibits are.

• Carnegie Hall
  Search for concerts by date or check out what's new and notable.
• Central Park
  The official site from the Central Park Conservancy features information on musical concerts, free walking tours, recreational and educational programs, and when plants are in bloom.
• The High Line
  The High Line is a rail line located on Manhattan's West Side that is being turned into a rail/trail and park. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. Section 1 of the High Line, which opened to the public on June 9, runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street.
• I Love NY Theater
  A website from the League of American Theatres and Producers with information about shows on Broadway in New York City. In English, Spanish, Japanese, German, Portuguese, and French.
• Washington Post: N.Y.C. With Kids: Think Outside the Frame
  Take the kids to New York City for a cultural vacation. Includes 10 Tips for Introducing Your Kids to Art.

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History

• New York: A Documentary
  This is the companion website to Ken Burns' PBS/WNET 5 part/10 hour documentary film about the history of New York City, aired in November 1999.