Urban Adventure New York City

Urban Adventure New York City

Author: David Howard

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780393322125

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Beneath the glitter and glamour, New York hides surprising chances to pursue active outdoor sports. This guide features detailed descriptions of rides, routes, resources, and hangouts for two dozen sports in and around the Big Apple. 50 maps.


New York City Like a Local

New York City Like a Local

Author: DK Eyewitness

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0744055237

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Uncover the hidden side of New York City with this insider's e-guide Home to soaring skyscrapers, eclectic museums, and a foodie scene like no other, this rapturous city is endlessly enticing. But beyond the well-trodden sights of the Empire State Building and the Met lies the real New York City: a whole other side waiting to be explored. We've spoken to the city's locals to unearth the coolest hangout spots, hidden gems, and personal favorites to ensure you travel like a local. Grab a coffee from the cafes the locals catch up in, browse fresh produce at vibrant farmers' markets, or explore the quirky galleries the students rave about. Whether you're a New Yorker looking to uncover your city's secrets or seeking an authentic experience beyond the tourist track, this stylish guide makes sure you experience New York City beneath the surface.


Vacation Goose Travel Guide Manhattan New York, USA

Vacation Goose Travel Guide Manhattan New York, USA

Author: Francis Morgan

Publisher: Soffer Publishing

Published: 2017-04-29

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13:

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Vacation Goose Travel Guide Manhattan New York, USA is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 50 city attractions, top 50 nightlife adventures, top 50 city restaurants, top 50 shopping centers, top 50 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Manhattan adventure :)


Travel and Adventure Memoirs in Words

Travel and Adventure Memoirs in Words

Author: Louisa Ligeron

Publisher: Hope Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Travel and Adventure Memoirs in Words: A Descriptive Writing Guide for Young Writers Unlock the power of descriptive writing and embark on a journey to capture your travel experiences in vivid, engaging narratives with "Travel and Adventure Memoirs in Words: A Descriptive Writing Guide for Young Writers." This comprehensive guide is your passport to transforming your adventures into compelling stories that resonate with readers. From exploring bustling cityscapes and savoring local flavors to immersing in vibrant festivals and reflecting on personal growth, this book covers a wide range of themes, each designed to help you hone your descriptive writing skills. Through practical tips, inspiring examples, and step-by-step guidance, you'll learn to paint pictures with words, bringing your travel experiences to life. Inside this book, you’ll discover: In-depth chapters on various travel themes, including cultural encounters, natural wonders, unexpected journeys, and more. Practical tips for enhancing your descriptive writing, focusing on sensory details, emotional impact, and narrative structure. Ten illustrative examples in each chapter, showcasing how to describe different types of travel experiences. Whether you're a budding writer looking to improve your craft or an avid traveler wanting to share your stories, "Travel and Adventure Memoirs in Words" will inspire and equip you to write with clarity and passion. Embrace the art of descriptive writing and let your adventures shine through every page. Start your writing adventure today and discover the magic of bringing your travel memories to life!


Going Coastal, New York City

Going Coastal, New York City

Author: Barbara La Rocco

Publisher: Going Coastal, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780972980302

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An ultra-useful guide that brings together all the information necessary to enjoy the waterfront, in a compact, well-organized form - Phillip Lopate, author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan Use this guide to discover the beaches, boardwalks, historic sites, and marine attractions, as well as the limitless opportunities for waterside fun, dining, and adventure in the five boros of New York. Designed for travelers and locals, alike, Going Coastal New York City offers the best, most comprehensive information on what's happening along New York City's over 500 miles of coastline.


New York City

New York City

Author: Meryl Pearlstein

Publisher: Fodors Travel Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1400008859

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Offers recommendations for child-friendly lodging, restaurants, attractions, and amenities; maps of areas that can be found off the beaten track; and advice on planning a trip to New York City.


New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

Author: George G. Foster

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990-11-21

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780520909472

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First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum—the underground story—of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism. Editor Stuart M. Blumin has provided a penetrating introductory essay that sets Foster's life and work in the contexts of the growing city, the development of the mass-distribution publishing industry, the evolving literary genre of urban sensationalism, and the wider culture of Victorian America. This is an important reintroduction to a significant but neglected work, a prologue to the urban realism that would flourish later in the fiction of Stephen Crane, the painting of George Bellows, and the journalism of Jacob Riis.


The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys

Author: Greg Young

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1612435769

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Uncover fascinating, little-known histories of the five boroughs in The Bowery Boys’ official companion to their popular, award-winning podcast. It was 2007. Sitting at a kitchen table and speaking into an old karaoke microphone, Greg Young and Tom Meyers recorded their first podcast. They weren’t history professors or voice actors. They were just two guys living in the Bowery and possessing an unquenchable thirst for the fascinating stories from New York City’s past. Nearly 200 episodes later, The Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York’s old cobblestone streets and gas-lit back alleyways. In their uniquely approachable style, the authors bring to life everything from makeshift forts of the early Dutch years to the opulent mansions of The Gilded Age. They weave tales that will reshape your view of famous sites like Times Square, Grand Central Terminal, and the High Line. Then they go even further to reveal notorious dens of vice, scandalous Jazz Age crime scenes, and park statues with strange pasts. Praise for The Bowery Boys “Among the best city-centric series.” —New York Times “Meyers and Young have become unofficial ambassadors of New York history.” —NPR “Breezy and informative, crowded with the finest grifters, knickerbockers, spiritualists, and city builders to stalk these streets since back when New Amsterdam was just some farms.” —Village Voice “Young and Meyers have an all-consuming curiosity to work out what happened in their city in years past, including the Newsboys Strike of 1899, the history of the Staten Island Ferry, and the real-life sites on which Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl is based.” —The Guardian


City Wilds

City Wilds

Author: Terrell Dixon

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780820323503

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The assumptions we make about nature writing too often lead us to see it only as a literature about wilderness or rural areas. This anthology broadens our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora, fauna, geology, and climate that enrich and shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic environs, these stories and essays take us to rivers, parks, vacant lots, lakes, gardens, and zoos as they convey nature's rich disregard of city limits signs. With writings by women and men from cities in all regions of the country and from different ethnic traditions, the anthology reflects the geographic differences and multicultural makeup of our cities. Works by well-known and emerging contemporary writers are included as well as pieces from important twentieth-century urban nature writers. Since more than 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, we need to enlarge our environmental concerns to encompass urban nature. By focusing on urban nature writing, the selections in City Wilds can help develop a more inclusive environmental consciousness, one that includes both the nature we see on a day-to-day basis and how such nearby nature is viewed by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds.