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New York City

City Guides

  • Frommer's Destinations: New York City
    This website includes information from Arthur Frommer's current guide book and covers best hotel and dining bets, favorite experiences, health & safety, planning a trip, for foreign visitors, getting to know New York City (neighborhoods), accommodations, dining, attractions, nightlife, shopping, organized tours, spectator sports, Central Park, and Traveler's Guide to Art & Architecture.
  • Manhattan User's Guide
    called "the best insider's guide" by the New York Post, publishes a monthly newsletter –now exclusively online – that features the best of New York. With 8 years of searchable, constantly updated, articles.
  • New York City
    The Official New York City Web Site provides information on city agencies, programs and services, and links to external sites on cultural, educational, and recreational activities. Click on their "Visitors" section for information on where to stay and eat, what to do and see, and how to get around.
  • NewYorkCity.com (nyc.com)
    Guides to hotels, attractions, music, nightlife, restaurants, etc.
  • NYC & Company
    This is the city's official tourism web site, brought to you by NYC & Company -— the city's official tourism marketing organization. A private non-profit, NYC & Company has a membership of more than 1,500 businesses, including museums, hotels, restaurants, retail stores, theaters, tour organizations, and attractions. Topics covered by the website are What's New, Accommodations, Calendar of Events, Planning Your Trip, Free Vacation Guide, Things To Do, Services, Itineraries, Getting Around, Maps & Neighborhoods, Special Offers, Restaurants, and NYC Info.
  • New York Metro.com
    New York Magazine and Metro TV on the web. Includes weekend getaways, best of New York Eating, Cheap Eats, shopping, entertainment, restaurants, etc.
  • New York Times: Travel: New York City
    A collection of free articles and multimedia from The Times as well as hotel, restaurant, sightseeing information and travel tips from Fodor's.

  • TalkingStreet
    Audio walking tours that you can listen to on your cell phone.
  • Time Out: New York
    One of a series of City Guides from a British Publisher. This is a good guide to inexpensive and moderate restaurants and accommodations.
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Neighborhoods

  • Big Apple Greeter
    A free public service that helps visitors discover the hidden treasures of New York City, the world's most exciting and diverse city.
  • BRIC: Brooklyn Information & Culture
    Offers a collection of links and contact information for "Places to Visit", "This Week in Brooklyn", in their Visit Brooklyn section.
  • Chinatown New York City
    Chinatown New York City, the largest Chinatown in the United States, is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Manhattan. Whether you’re seeking the best in Chinese food, Asian groceries, shopping or guided tours, come Explore Chinatown to find it all! The Explore Chinatown campaign is a project of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation.
  • Discover Queens
    Ten reasons why you should visit Queens.
  • Flushing Local: Number Seven Train
    This "International Express" runs from Times Square in New York City through Queens to Flushing. The number seven train passes above so many ethnic and new immigrant communities on its seven-mile route through northwest Queens that it has been dubbed the International Express. You can order a brochure about it from the Queens Council on the Arts. And you can get an all-you-can-ride Metrocard from New York City Transit so that you can get on and off as many times as you like.
  • Heart of Brooklyn
    A Cultural Partnership is a unique consortium among the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park Alliance and Prospect Park Zoo.
  • Jackson Heights
    This New York CitySearch feature article says this about Jackson Heights in Queens: "It's probably the most ethnically diverse place in New York, and the mix of traditions has created a street culture like no other in the city. Under the elevated tracks of the 7 train that run along Roosevelt Avenue, people are cooking food and blasting music. A few blocks away, there are castles and rosebushes. Bucolic and frenzied in equal parts, Jackson Heights is what New York should be."
  • Little Italy
    The official website for New York City's Little Italy district includes directions on how to get there by public transportation and an interactive map with restaurants.

  • National Geographic: New York Underground
    Not exactly a neighborhood, check out what's under the streets.
  • New York Public Library
    Links to web sites and information for the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, prepared by the librarians of New York Public Library.
  • NYC24
    Built by the New Media Workshop at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and consisting of multimedia projects done by students, this website will give you interesting and unconventional glimpses into the life of New York City.
  • Washington Post: A Day in New York
    With Excursions for ... The Adventurer, The Nosher, The Tourist Trapper, The Culture Hound, The Family Guy.
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News, Media, Weather, Calendars

  • NYC Arts
    A Culture Guide and Calendar from the Alliance for the Arts to help visitors and New Yorkers make better use of the amazing number of cultural attractions throughout the city's five boroughs.
  • New York Radio Guide
    A great guide to AM and FM stations with information, schedule, website, and whether or not they have audio broadcasts over the Internet.
  • New York Times
    Includes entertainment and an NYC Guide.
  • The New Yorker
    Check out their "Goings On About Town" and "The Critics" for movie, music, art, theater, and entertainment reviews in the Big Apple.
  • Newsday
    This New York Daily newspaper offers an Entertainment section with movies, theater, restaurants, broadway shows, and city guide.
  • PAPERMAG
    An online entertainment guide for New York. Includes paper daily with what's happening today.
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Transportation

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Food and Drink

Web Sites

 

Selected Books

New York City Food Schwartz, Arthur
Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food
Although it contains more than 100 legendary recipes, this book emphasizes the history of New York City food, including restaurants and ethnic groups (Germans, Irish, Jews, Italians, etc.). Very nicely illustrated with historic and current photos.
TX715.S1457 2004
New York Neighborhoods, a Food Lover's Walking, Eating, and Shopping Guide to Ethnic Enclaves in New York's Boroughs
This Insiders' Guide covers Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan and includes maps, restaurants and food stores. At the back is a list of ethnic festivals.
TX907.3.N72 N422x
Vegetarian New York City Gerber, Suzanne
Vegetarian New York City: the essential dining, shopping, and lodging guide
This guide provides detailed reviews of the best restaurants, in all price ranges, that offer vegetarian fare as well as. Most of the listings are for Manhattan.
TX907.3.N72 N437 2004
ZagatSurvey ... New York City Restaurants
Consumer based survey covering the restaurant scene in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
TX907.3.N72 N495x
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Accomodations

You can search for hotels and make online reservations at sites listed on our Hotels and Accommodations and Online Reservations pages.

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Attractions

  • American Museum of Natural History
    Located at Central Park West and 79th Street. Their website will tell you what their current exhibits are.

  • Carnegie Hall
    Search for concerts by date or check out what's new and notable.
  • Central Park
    The official site from the Central Park Conservancy features information on musical concerts, free walking tours, recreational and educational programs, and when plants are in bloom.
  • I Love NY Theater
    A website from the League of American Theatres and Producers with information about shows on Broadway in New York City. In English, Spanish, Japanese, German, Portuguese, and French.
  • Washington Post: N.Y.C. With Kids: Think Outside the Frame
    Take the kids to New York City for a cultural vacation. Includes 10 Tips for Introducing Your Kids to Art.
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History

  • New York: A Documentary
    This is the companion website to Ken Burns' PBS/WNET 5 part/10 hour documentary film about the history of New York City, aired in November 1999.