Pauline Frommer - Frommers New York City 2023

Frommers EasyGuide to New York City, 8th edition

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Frommer's Star Ratings System

Every hotel, restaurant, and attraction listed in this guide has been ranked for quality and value. Heres what the stars mean:

	Recommended
	Highly Recommended
	A must! Don't miss!

AN IMPORTANT NOTE

The world is a dynamic place. Hotels change ownership, restaurants hike their prices, museums alter their opening hours, and buses and trains change their routings. And all of this can occur in the several months after our authors have visited, inspected, and written about these hotels, restaurants, museums, and transportation services. Though we have made valiant efforts to keep all our information fresh and up-to-date, some few changes can inevitably occur in the periods before a revised edition of this guidebook is published. So please bear with us if a tiny number of the details in this book have changed. Please also note that we have no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracy or errors or omissions, or for inconvenience, loss, damage, or expenses suffered by anyone as a result of assertions in this guide.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pauline Frommer started traveling with her guidebook-writing parents at the age of 4 months and hasnt stopped since. She is the Editorial Director for the Frommer Guidebooks and Frommers.com as well as author of what has been the bestselling guidebook to her hometown since its first edition. Her first job in travel was on the website Frommers.com, and eventually she worked her way up to Editor in Chief. Pauline also served as Travel Editor for MSNBC.com for several years, before working with John Wiley and Sons to create the award-winning Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, a 14-book series that won the coveted Best Guidebook of the Year title 3 years in a row from the North American Travel Journalists Association (and once from the Society of American Travel Writers). For 4 years, Pauline created weekly travel segments for CNNs Headline News and CNNs Pipeline . You may also have seen her talking travel on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, FOX News, and every local news station you can name. Her writings have been widely published in everything from Budget Travel Magazine to the Dallas Morning News to Nick Jr. magazine. Her podcast, The Frommers Travel Show, was named one of the 13 best for travel by the New York Times . She resides in New York City with her husband, Columbia University Professor Mahlon Stewart, and two very well-traveled daughters.

She thanks her father Arthur, her stepmother Roberta Brodfeld, her husband and daughters, her wonderful editor Holly Hughes, and friends Joel Fram, Martin Lowe, Rachel Richardson, Joan Barzilay, Tony Freund, Laura Nolan, Gary Morris, Zeinab Thiam, and Marlo Shankweiler for all their support and advice during the research, writing, and editing of this book. It really took a village, and shes so grateful to have so many awe-inspiring people in her village.

The Best of the Big Apple

T here is simply no place in the United States as brimming with opportunities as New York City. Those of us who live here open our doors to incredible options each and every day: the chance to experience the best and newest in the worlds of art, theater, dance, and music; the ability to feast on expertly prepared foods from all over the world; the belief that we can make our voices heard, in this news media capital; and the opportunity to meet todays movers and shakers. The ambitious come here because they know that if they want to achieve a certain level of prominence, New York is the place to do it. (Are you humming If I can make it there, Ill make it anywhere... right now?)

Theres a factual basis to this New Yorkers pride. Because of the density and diversity of our population; our long history as a center of commerce and ideas; our access to the United Nations, Wall Street, and the opinion makers of Madison Avenue; and endless other resources, theres simply more more here than in other places. And if that claim seems extreme, well, youll just have to regard boastfulness as another unavoidable characteristic of the Big Apple. What would we New Yorkers be without our big mouths?

In visiting New York, you, too, are opening yourself up to a world of wonderful opportunities. Yet thats what can make New York so intimidating to visitors: There are just so many darn choices. In this chapter, Ive sorted through a books worth of options, selecting some favorites to help you hit the citys highlights.

The most unforgettable New York City Experiences

Seeing the City from on High: It doesnt really matter if you do so from the Top of the Rock (), or one of the many other venues where one can get a birds-eye view. Whats really important is that you get a feeling for the immensity of the city, with Manhattans wonderfully orderly grid system of streets (which plays off the hubbub on the streets themselves), and the dizzying variety of building types (many of which cant be adequately seen from the sidewalk). Try to get somewhere high early in your triptheres no better way to orient yourself.