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on current visits. Most of Manhattan is easy to get around, and a perfect walking city.
The Metro maps are much better for tube. This map shows subways, but I wouldn't rely on it for that, seems a little confusing.
I really like these maps. This Manhattan version joins our collection, and was purchased for a trip, tho' we really didn't use it that much since I was familiar with where we needed to go/be.
This is great for streets and neighborhoods. I have for LA and Chicago, and even tho' those are several years old, I still use them for getting around basic streets, etc.
They're good for marking w/grease pencils when you want to know where something is, and how to get there (then wipe clean when done).
But I was disappointed that the bus route map is shown as a smaller condensed map, but not the subway system, which I feel is much more useful. The map does give you everything you would need of a map of Manhattan.
It's not that it's BAD, it's just that there are MUCH better options available.I would highly recommend the New Yorker's NYC map series. This map is amazingly unreadable.
so don't panic, think about it. and any device with internet access will give you precise directions, including SUBWAY and BUS and WALKING. of course, it's hardly a major purchase. y'know, it's a nice, laminated map with some other info, too. BUT.consider that your hotel(for FREE), every 24 hour drug store (and there are MANY), and half of the other stores will have an ABUNDANCE of maps, many inexpensive.
Best of all, you don't have to look like a total tourist: it fits surreptitiously in your coat pocket, easily referred to without fuss, as you exit trying to figure out whether it's the NE or the SW corner that you're looking for. Having used the official maps for the Metro system, and the NYC Tourist Bureau maps, this is the best in consolidating all the important information in one, easy to carry map.
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