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Title: AIA Guide to New York City by Elliot Willensky, Norval White, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter ISBN: 0-8129-3107-6 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 27 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitive
Comment: If you live in New York or you are fascinated by its architecture, you really should buy The AIA Guide to NYC. It is a remarkable tome, including more than 5000 buildings and 3000 stamp album style photos of structures in all five boroughs, ranging from Brooklyn to far Queens and from Staten Island through Manhattan and up to the extreme Bronx. It will hit your coffee table with a serious thunk, and provide endless browsing enjoyment. If you're visiting New York on a quick trip or want a selective overview, I discovered a new book that makes a good companion volume: The Architecture Traveler, by Sydney LeBlanc, which covers 250 American buildings. The author is evidently a New Yorker. About 60 of the buildings are in and around the city. It presents fewer buildings but presents a full page story on each of them. I bought both books: the AIA guide for comprehensiveness, the more selective Architecture Traveler for it's intriguing stories and for the rest of America, which it also includes.
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly classic treasure trove of NYC info.
Comment: This book is amazing in its depth of analysis and thoroughness of its study of the vast amount of architectural treasures in all five boroughs. As a native New Yorker (born in The Bronx, raised in Queens, high school in Manhattan) I was pleasantly surprised to find so many buildings that I admired to have a history behind them. A lot of little tid-bits are included in the book, for example did you know the park benches in the Battery Park Promenade are from the 1939 NY World's Fair? I didn't! Did you know that the same Guastavino tile vaulting found outside the Oyster Bar in Grand Central can be found at the Municipal Building at Centre Street? And at the NY Telephone Building at 140 West Street?
A must-have for anyone who loves New York. A true walker's handbook that includes suggested walking tours all over the city. Find out the story behind that old building you walk by on your way home to your Flushing apartment! I also found it fascinating to compare this third edition with the earlier "revised" edition of 1978 to see how much had changed and been lost. The 3rd edition was almost twice the size by the way! I hope a 4th edition is in the works by now.
Rating: 5
Summary: Keep it close
Comment: I have been a New Yorker all my life and thought I'd known it all. There were buildings/structures that I knew to be older than most and probably landmarks, but never got around to checking them out. Then I picked up the AIA Guide to New York City sometime in 2001. Ever since, I have kept it with me at all times: in my back pocket, my briefcase, my jacket... Sometimes I go to some of these places in advance, with the intent of looking at them after I'd read about them. Other times, when on my way to or from work or lunch, I will see a building, stop, and look to read about what it is. My hunches aren't always correct, of course: not all the buildings I think are landmarks are. But I always keep this Guide on hand to find out.
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Title: Guide to New York City Landmarks (Guide to New York City Landmarks) by Andrew S. Dolkart, Matthew A. Postal ISBN: 0471369004 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 03 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Manhattan Block By Block: A Street Atlas by John Tauranac ISBN: 1878892134 Publisher: Tauranac Maps Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols, Revised Edition by Donald Martin Reynolds ISBN: 0471014397 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 15 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: New York: 15 Walking Tours by Gerard R. Wolfe ISBN: 0071411852 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: New York Streetscapes : Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buidlings and Landmarks by Suzanne Braley, Christopher Gray ISBN: 0810944413 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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