A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend on New York's Upper East Side. This is not the part of New York you come to for its nightlife. Here it's all about shopping the stores on Madison Avenue and the excellent restaurants and museums. Or just walking the side streets and looking at all the magnificent brownstones and wondering who has the kind of money to live in these places. "We broke our trip to New York up into 3 parts, and one of the parts was the Upper East Side. We wanted to be able to walk everywhere. This handy guide provided everything we needed." ---Kendrick M., SarasotaYou'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.=Lodgings (throughout the area) variously priced=Fine & budget restaurants, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found. =Principal attractions -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.=A handful of interesting shopping ideas.

A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Midtown Manhattan, which runs from 14th Street up to 59th Street (Central Park South). "We found this book so much more manageable than the other guidebooks to New York (we bought 2 of them), which were HUGE. We knew our short trip would force us to remain in Midtown, and this book helped us to focus our energy."---Billy L., Los Angeles"In town at a business conference, I was able to cram every free minute with fun and interesting things to do by keeping this book in my pocket (I like the printed version-small, compact, concise)."---George W., Detroit You'll save a lot of time using this handy guide.=Lodgings (throughout the area) variously priced=Fine & budget restaurants, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found. =Principal attractions -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.=A handful of interesting shopping ideas.