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Title: New York: 15 Walking Tours by Gerard R. Wolfe ISBN: 0-07-141185-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A MUST FOR LICENSED NYC TOUR GUIDES
Comment: I learned more about Manhattan's Lower East Side in this book, than any other in my collection. As a licensed, NYC tour guide, this is now the first book I go to, the ultimate reference. 15 neighborhoods are highlighted with solid information on the architecture of hundreds of buildings as well as nuggets of fascinating stories. Read about how one now defunt NYC Dept. store shipped an albino elephant to one skeptical customer. All true! Anyone studying for the NYC sightseing exam needs to have this book in their collection.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sloppy
Comment: There is only one word to describe this book: Sloppy. So sloppy that you have to ask yourself if the author has ever taken his own tour.
I don't know if the blame falls to the author, or publisher McGraw Hill, for failing to edit this book.
I pulled a page (142) from a neighborhood I happen to know something about and found these errors on a single page:
# 21 "The former Metropolitan Savings Bank", opened in 1867 not 1868. He uses the apprehensive phrase "attributed to Carl Pfeiffer." A newspaper article about the grand opening day of this building as a bank reports it as May 21, 1867, and declares that the builder is Carl Pfeiffer.
Then he repeats an urban myth from a discredited revisionist "historian" that McSorley's Old Ale House did not open in 1854, but in 1862. He goes on to describe the items "on the grimy sheet-tin walls." The bar has no tinned walls. (With the exception of the lavatories) Step inside if you are going to describe the inside!
Save your money. McGraw Hill did when it came to hiring an editor to check his facts. Buy the AIA guide and make your own tour. Although the old photos are pretty good, they are not quite enough to be the saving grace here. Wolfe gets the addresses right, but if this one page is any indication., no one checked his historical facts, and that makes me even more surprised by the American Heritage review of this work.
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite guide to NYC!
Comment: This is the best guide of its kind which I have seen. Wolfe is thorough, engaging, sometimes funny and a joy to read. As a tour guide I have read many books on NYC, and this is one of my favorites. Unlike many other authors, he pays more than lip-service to the outer boroughs, and also offers a good guide to Roosevelt Island.
Let's see an updated edition!!!
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Title: Blue Guide New York (New York, 3rd Ed) by Carol Von Pressentin Wright, Carol Von Pressentin Wright, Stuart Miller, Sharon Seitz ISBN: 0393319857 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: AIA Guide to New York City by NORVAL WHITE, ELLIOT WILLENSKY ISBN: 0812931076 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Big Onion Guide to New York City: Ten Historic Tours by Seth Kamil, Eric Wakin, Kenneth T. Jackson, N.Y.) Big Onion Walking Tours (New York ISBN: 0814747485 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: City Secrets New York City (CITY SECRETS NEW YORK CITY) by Robert Kahn ISBN: 1892145081 Publisher: Little Bookroom Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City: A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--for Free! by Rob Grader ISBN: 0762723521 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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