MOON HANDBOOKS NEW YORK CITY

Intelligently organized and as full of life as the city itself, Moon Handbooks New York City covers the Big Apple the way New Yorkers know it: neighborhood by neighborhood. Greenwich Village resident Christiane Bird presents Gotham’s most intriguing sights, practicalities, and pleasures geographically, so that nearby attractions are always at your fingertips. This new edition includes:

• A special focus on offbeat delights: deliciously unsweet ginger ice cream in Chinatown, the African-
   American Wax Museum in Harlem, steaming Turkish baths in the East Village
• Insider recommendations on the best values in dining, shopping, clubbing, and other urban pleasures
   around the city
• Fascinating local lore: Native American roots, Colonial struggles, draft riots, Tammany Hall, and
   speakeasies

"Succinct and humorous at the same time." —Condé Nast Traveler

Moon Handbooks New York City
2nd Edition
Christiane Bird
ISBN 1-56691-202-4
$13.95
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Christiane Bird was born in New York City, but after early childhood, did not live in the Big Apple again until after her graduation from college. In the interim, she got her first taste of exotic travel when her father, a medical doctor, moved the family to Tabriz, Iran, for three years before settling down in the small New England town of Storrs, Connecticut.
   When Christiane told her New York City friends that she was writing a guidebook to New York—both city and state—most seemed surprised to hear that there was a state beyond the city. And that, Christiane has found, is a perception shared by many travelers, who don't realize that New York City—as magnificent as it is—is but one small dot on the Empire State map.
   One of Christiane's favorite things about New York State is its many quirky, off-the-beaten-track towns that, despite their apparent isolation, nonetheless hold important chapters of civil rights, cultural, and industrial history. Two of her favorite things about New York City are its endless diversity and the unusual quality of its light, most apparent in the late afternoons, when the buildings glow incandescent against a darkening sky.
   A graduate of Yale University and former travel writer for the New York Daily News, Christiane is the author of Moon Handbooks New York City, Moon Handbooks New York State, The Jazz and Blues Lover's Guide to the U.S., and Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran, which chronicles her travels back to Iran in 1998. She is currently working on a book about the Kurds.

Other travel guides authored by Christiane Bird:
Moon Handbooks New York State