Discover New York's most colorful neighborhoods—one step at a time.

Follow Frommer's for an up-close and personal look at the Big Apple's most culturally rich areas, from famous places to lesser-known gems. Filled with color photos, easy-to-follow maps, clear route directions, and helpful commentary, this guide makes it easy to find your way around.

Let Frommer's take you to:

• Historic lower Manhattan and the landmarks of old New York
• Bustling ethnic enclaves, from the Jewish Lower east Side to Little Italy
• Bohemian Greenwich Village, with charming cafe-lined streets
• Times Square, the Crossroads of the World at the heart of the theater district
• Harlem, the vibrant center of African-American culture

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How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's fascinating past.

This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an event, person, or place of historical significance. Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, it whisks readers from colonial New Amsterdam through Manhattan's past, right up to post-9/11 New York. The book also works as a historical walking-tour guide, with 14 self-guided tours, maps, and step-by-step directions. Easy to carry with you as you explore the city, Inside the Apple allows you to visit the site of every story it tells. This energetic, wide-ranging, and often humorous book covers New York's most important historical moments, but is always anchored in the city of today....