Frommer's New York City 2026

(Paperback, 11th New edition)

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Pauline Frommer's highly personal guide to her own home city has, in previous editions, twice been named "Best Guidebook of the Year" by the North American Travel Journalists Association. Her book has been New York City's top-selling guide for the last decade. It's published in full color, with dozens of engaging, helpful photos, and color maps.

This guide, which is printed in easy-to-read type, contains:

• Smart itineraries, including for families, honeymoons, and short stays
• Local knowledge on the best places to eatand how to avoid tourist traps
• Detailed maps, marked with subway stops, plus a dedicated subway map, and a handy fold-out map
• Exact pricing for hotels, restaurants, attractions, tours and more, so you'll never have to guessplus invaluable info about what you'll need to reserve in advance.
• Advice on how to avoid the crowds at the city's top attractions, which observation deck to choose, and how to get around the "surge pricing" that affects costs at many of the city's top sights
• Fun, informative, historically rich self-guided walking tours spanning the city, with maps
• Picks in all price categories so you can splurge or be frugal, using the Frommer's star rating system. No entity has paid to be in this guide-or any Frommer's guide. We pride ourselves on over six decades of journalistic integrity.
• Advice on the best shopping neighborhoods and streets, plus stores you likely won't find anywhere else in the United States
• Strategies for choosing the right shows to see on Broadway, off Broadway and at the city's many cultural institutions, plus info on how to ALWAYS save money on tickets.
• A look at the city's storied nightlife that spans everything from how to get tickets to Saturday Night Live (and other shows) to the city's most welcoming and, sometimes eccentric, bars and dance clubs.
• Smart advice on saving on flights to New York, getting in from the airport, getting to the city other ways, and saving money on transportation once you're here
• Info you won't find elsewhere on all of the free and fabulous activities and attractions the city has on offer.

About Frommer's: There's a reason Frommer's has been the most trusted name in travel for nearly 70 years. Arthur Frommer created the best-selling guide series in 1957 to help American servicemen fulfill their dreams of travel in Europe, and since then, we have become a household name by publishing thousands of titles and helping millions upon millions of people realize their dreams of seeing our planet within their budget. Travel is easy with Frommer's.

Author Bio

Pauline Frommerstarted traveling with her guidebook-writing parents at the age of four months and hasn't stopped since. She is the Editorial Director for the Frommer Guidebooks and Frommers.com, as well as author of what has been the bestselling guidebook to her hometown since its first edition. Her first job in travel was on the website Frommers.com, and eventually she worked her way up to Editor in Chief. Pauline also served as Travel Editor for MSNBC.com for several years, before working with John Wiley and Sons to create the award-winning Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, a 14-book series that won the coveted "Best Guidebook of the Year" title three years in a row from the North American Travel Journalists Association (and once from the Society of American Travel Writers).

For four years, Pauline created weekly travel segments for CNN'sHeadline Newsand CNN'sPipeline. You may also have seen her talking travel onThe Today Show, NBC Nightly News,ABC World News Tonight,Good Morning America,FOX News. She resides in New York City with her husband, Columbia University Professor Mahlon Stewart and two very well-traveled daughters.

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