Secret New York: An Unusual Guide

By T.M. Rives

Book Overview

Winner of the 2019 NYC Big Book Award in the Travel Category

Admire an apocalyptic pillar in a church, relax in secret gardens, discover the New York version of the Sagrada Familia, visit a secret metro tunnel, contemplate an elephant electrocuted, find bullet impacts outside the Bank JP Morgan, observe the stars with a university telescope, find a statue of Lenin, fly your skirt in the same place as Marilyn Monroe, explore a room filled with earth, discover a gigantic Venetian palace above an old stable, visit an island whose independence was proclaimed from a canoe in 2004, discover the "pig" of St. Patrick's Cathedral, play scrabble with the signs of Queens, find out where is the last tooth of Washington, find the house who hides a metro mouth, locate a plaque in memory of an event of another dimension, have your bike or elephant blessed, go get inspected any natural quirk at an annual professional identification session ...

New York offers endless opportunity to step off the program and peer into the city's fascinating past and present. Secret New York - An Unusual Guide is an indispensible resource for those who thought they already knew everything about America's metropolis, or want to begin exploring it hidden places.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2361952378
• ISBN13: 9782361952372
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Jonglez Publishing
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.4"