World Famous Comics: Frommer's NYC Free & Dirt Cheap
Frommer's NYC Free & Dirt Cheap
By: Ethan Wolff Publisher: Frommer's Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Frommer's Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 338 Publication Date: December 06, 2006
Product Description: Now you don’t have to spend big bucks to enjoy the Big Apple. Perfect for residents and visitors alike, this outspoken guide is packed with free and dirt-cheap ways to get the most out of New York City, from food, drinks, and entertainment to shopping, events, classes, and more.
Poorly organized but solid and current information I've lived in NYC for more than 10 years now, and am very good at navigating the city. I tried to use this book to help me select any random inexpensive restaurant one afternoon, (in any random neighborhood) and found it maddeningly frustrating.
In general it's a good reference book for say..."picking one thing out, and then executing a plan on visiting that spot". Maybe that's the problem, I was expecting more of a guide book, and this book is definitely not a guide book.
To look at the maps with their legends and keys, and then to try to refer back to the detailed description page is VERY FRUSTRATING. The legend is organized alphabetically, but not the reference material.
Ok, I thought, cross check the Index! Wrong.
One example, on map page 98, the key for the "Knitting factory" is number 38. Since I can't quickly find it within the material, I check the Index pages under K. Nothing.
It's a great concept with some excellent material, but it is poorly organized with a poor layout and index reference.
While in a major bookstore chain the other day I noticed an end display of many of these books, and it didn't look like it was flying off the shelves. I think the natives might be on to something.
Well worth the money.....saved This book is full of where to go and what to do ideas; and they all cost next to nothing to do. It's the book to use before you go to NYC. Use it to help you plan your days; almost all the museums have a few hours one day a week with a "pay what you wish" entrance fee. It's a book I return to every time we are planning to visit the city.
very good I'm satisfied with the book, but I haven't had the oportunity to try something out - we are going to visit New York at the end of the year.
Fun and funky, with a caveat.... Mr. Wolff in an unabashed New Yorker (although a transplant from Virginia) and his love shows through the work. Many useful suggestions, but one section makes me question the accuracy of the rest....
Mr. Wolff, on page 61, asserts: "The Earl of Oxford would probably be gratified to know all these centuries later his little plays dominate the summer theatre seen in the world's capital. Sure, the plays are published under the name of an actor from Stratford, but the passions and conflict resound just as the Earl wrote them."
I hope Mr. Wolff is pulling our collective leg, because if he really is an Oxfordian (someone who believes the 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works of Shakespeare, instead of Shakespeare himself), I'm not sure I trust his judgement: not because he proposes that outlandish conspiracy theory (many have been suckered into that), but because introducing it into a guide book meant furthering his pet theory was more important than an unbiased, focused work.
That's why it gets 3 out of 5 stars.
Best Travel Guide for New York I bought this for my upcoming trip to NY, and it has been very useful in showing how to see many great places at little to no cost...very worth its weight and price!
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