Library Journal
Book Description
This guidebook – for residents and visitors alike – will tell you where the bodies are buried, and where others have been dug up; where to get the best pizza slice, the best knish, and the most expensive martini; how to explore the Hudson River for free via kayak, and how to navigate your way through the wilds of Central Park by streetlight. There are also tales of underground sex clubs, viral outbreaks, a secret tunnel in Grand Central Station, an electrocuted elephant at Coney Island, and little-known bars, cafes, hangouts, and other places to frolic. From the Bowery to Broadway, from the five boroughs to the Five Families, these are the best of the 8 million stories the Naked City has to offer.
Brash, smart, and defiantly unapologetic, this anti-Frommer/Fodor's guidebook – the first American city in Arsenal's alternative travel series – will make you see Gotham City in an entirely new light. You think you know New York? You don’t know anything until you've read New York: The Unknown City.
