Trip IdeasFodor's Family New York City with Kids, 1st Edition
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About This Book
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in New York City!
•Fodor’s Family New York City with Kids is a new series combining the city's best experiences, restaurants, and hotels with the age-appropriate information, tips, and ideas you need the most when visiting New York with your family. Handpicked selections by local parents cover a variety of interests and tastes, so you make the choices for a perfect trip, every time.
•Plan your trip to New York City more easily than ever with key information at your fingertips: Detailed maps, age-appropriateness ranges, kids admission prices, family-friendly hotel amenities, and top five lists of the very best things to see and do in every neighborhood we cover.
•Where can you find the best ice-cream place in SoHo? The most worthy playground in Union Square? A public bathroom in the East Village? Our “Where Can I Find?” charts created by local parents give you the neighborhood-by-neighborhood inside scoop.
•See New York City in a different way with fun “Treasure Maps” showing you and your family the sometimes hard-to-find spots where famous movies were shot or where real history was made.
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in New York City!
•Fodor’s Family New York City with Kids is a new series combining the city's best experiences, restaurants, and hotels with the age-appropriate information, tips, and ideas you need the most when visiting New York with your family. Handpicked selections by local parents cover a variety of interests and tastes, so you make the choices for a perfect trip, every time.
•Plan your trip to New York City more easily than ever with key information at your fingertips: Detailed maps, age-appropriateness ranges, kids admission prices, family-friendly hotel amenities, and top five lists of the very best things to see and do in every neighborhood we cover.
•Where can you find the best ice-cream place in SoHo? The most worthy playground in Union Square? A public bathroom in the East Village? Our “Where Can I Find?” charts created by local parents give you the neighborhood-by-neighborhood inside scoop.
•See New York City in a different way with fun “Treasure Maps” showing you and your family the sometimes hard-to-find spots where famous movies were shot or where real history was made.
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
Table of Contents
About This Book ............ 5
When To Go ............ 6
Bad Weather Plans ............ 7
Top Attractions ............ 8
What’s Where ............ 10
If Your Kid Likes ............ 14
For Free ............ 16
Chapter 1: Exploring Manhattan ............ 17
Lower Manhattan ............ 19
SoHo, NoLita & Little Italy ............ 28
East Village & the Lower East Side ............ 30
Greenwich Village & Chelsea ............ 34
Union Square with Gramercy Park, Murray Hill & the Flatiron District ............ 39
Midtown ............ 43
Central Park ............ 52
Upper East Side ............ 59
Upper West Side ............ 63
Harlem ............ 67
Chapter 2: Side Trips ............ 71
Brooklyn ............ 73
Queens ............ 89
The Bronx ............ 97
Staten Island ............ 103
Chapter 3: Museums ............ 107
Chapter 4: The Performing Arts ............ 121
Chapter 5: Shopping ............ 139
Chapter 6: Where to Eat ............ 153
Chapter 7: Where to Stay ............ 189
Family Fun ............ 212
Travel Smart ............ 217
Index ............ 235
About Our Writer ............ 240
Maps
Lower Manhattan ............ 22
SoHo, NoLita & Little Italy ............ 29
East Village & the Lower East Side ............ 32
Greenwich Village, the Meatpacking District & Chelsea ............ 35
Union Square, Murray Hill & Gramercy Park ............ 40
Midtown ............ 45
Central Park ............ 54-55
Upper East Side ............ 61
Upper West Side ............ 65
Harlem ............ 68
Brooklyn ............ 74
Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO ............ 77
Park Slope & Prospect Park ............ 82
Queens ............ 90
The Bronx ............ 98
Staten Island ............ 104
Where to Eat in Lower Manhattan and Downtown ............ 160-161
Where to Eat from the Village to the Thirties ............ 168-169
Where to Eat in Midtown ............ 174-175
Where to Eat Uptown & Harlem ............ 186-187
Where to Stay in Downtown, Chelsea & Murray Hill ............ 194
Where to Stay in Midtown & Uptown ............ 200-201
Treasure Map ............ 212-213
When To Go ............ 6
Bad Weather Plans ............ 7
Top Attractions ............ 8
What’s Where ............ 10
If Your Kid Likes ............ 14
For Free ............ 16
Chapter 1: Exploring Manhattan ............ 17
Lower Manhattan ............ 19
SoHo, NoLita & Little Italy ............ 28
East Village & the Lower East Side ............ 30
Greenwich Village & Chelsea ............ 34
Union Square with Gramercy Park, Murray Hill & the Flatiron District ............ 39
Midtown ............ 43
Central Park ............ 52
Upper East Side ............ 59
Upper West Side ............ 63
Harlem ............ 67
Chapter 2: Side Trips ............ 71
Brooklyn ............ 73
Queens ............ 89
The Bronx ............ 97
Staten Island ............ 103
Chapter 3: Museums ............ 107
Chapter 4: The Performing Arts ............ 121
Chapter 5: Shopping ............ 139
Chapter 6: Where to Eat ............ 153
Chapter 7: Where to Stay ............ 189
Family Fun ............ 212
Travel Smart ............ 217
Index ............ 235
About Our Writer ............ 240
Maps
Lower Manhattan ............ 22
SoHo, NoLita & Little Italy ............ 29
East Village & the Lower East Side ............ 32
Greenwich Village, the Meatpacking District & Chelsea ............ 35
Union Square, Murray Hill & Gramercy Park ............ 40
Midtown ............ 45
Central Park ............ 54-55
Upper East Side ............ 61
Upper West Side ............ 65
Harlem ............ 68
Brooklyn ............ 74
Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO ............ 77
Park Slope & Prospect Park ............ 82
Queens ............ 90
The Bronx ............ 98
Staten Island ............ 104
Where to Eat in Lower Manhattan and Downtown ............ 160-161
Where to Eat from the Village to the Thirties ............ 168-169
Where to Eat in Midtown ............ 174-175
Where to Eat Uptown & Harlem ............ 186-187
Where to Stay in Downtown, Chelsea & Murray Hill ............ 194
Where to Stay in Midtown & Uptown ............ 200-201
Treasure Map ............ 212-213
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