Manhattan Block by Block: A Street Atlas

by John Tauranac

The unique Manhattan Block by Block Atlas gives you block-by-block maps plus individual maps showing streets, places of interest, subways, and buses; information on city streets; house numbering;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878892126
• ISBN13: 9781878892126
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Mapquest.com
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Simply the greatest! Still the best value around!

I don't know why it took so long for me to discover this little "fits-in-your-coat-pocket" book. During our first trips to Manhattan, we used all those "other" fold-out maps and guides and BOOKS, even the old-fashioned "gas-station" variety maps that unfurled like huge posters that blow away while walking between tall buildings. Carrying those, you might as well walk around with a huge sign on your back that says, "tourist who's lost, please take advantage of me."Well, we've made about six trips to Manhattan since 9/11 alone, and this book (recently updated, hence retiring the other we used) has joined us every time. It has more than just landmarks. It identifies nearly every building, hotel and best of all, street numbers, north to south, east to west. This is really handy when you have an address but you have no idea where so-and-so block number is (and I'm too old to use those so-called "easy formulas" locals use to figure out where the numbers start and end depending upon the intersection you stand).Moreover, the subway maps are great. Not just weekday routes, but weekend and holidays are here too. Again, it's so much better to have a fits-in-your-hands booklet like this than even that huge subway map the MTA dishes out for free. Even outbound trains taking you outside Manhattan and into the boroughs are featured.I guess my only quibble for us visitors is how to grab a subway and train combo to get to other side of the Hudson, you know, like to Liberty State Park in New Jersey? Routes to the other NYC boroughs are well and good (someday it would be great to have a map of the main streets in Queens, the Bronx and especially Brooklyn included, but please don't make the book much thicker; who wants to carry an almanac?; leave that for Frommmer's and Fodor). But it'd be nice to find a map book that doesn't feel like the world stops and ends in Manhattan. This Tauranac still serves its purpose though, and if you're ever on the island, it's near impossible to get lost. Highly recommended to visitors (and to locals) alike!

MANHATTAN BLOCK BY BLOCK

AS A STUDENT OF HISTORY AND SOMEONE WHO FREQUENTLY TRAVELS THROUGHOUT THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA I FOUND THE BOOK TO BE AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF INFORMATION. I ESPECIALLY ENJOYED READING THE HISTORY OF HOW AND WHY THE STREETS WERE LAYED OUT THE WAY THEY WERE AND WHY OR HOW THEY WERE NAMED. THAT COUPLED WITH THE EASE OF CARRYING THE ATAS IN MY BRIEFCASE AND OR COAT VEST POCKET MADE IT A MOST WORTHWHILE INVESTMENT.

All about Manhattan

Everything you could possibly want to know about Manhattan streets, from which streets go which direction to house numbers to famous buildings. A wonderful resource from someone whose compulsivity about detail benefits the rest of us.

My new favorite

I picked this up along with the latest Flashmaps edition of Manhattan. I returned the Flashmaps book the next day. This little book is all a New Yorker or visitor needs to get around town. I especially liked the essays at the beginning. The development of the city's street plan is fascinating and concise. I can recommend the atlas highly.

Must Have Resource

Any visitor to NYC must buy this book! For less than the price of a Martini in the Carlyle Hotel, you get a wonderful introduction to New York, written by one of the few bona fide Big Apple experts. And for those many New Yorkers who think they know it all, this is a wonderful corrective.