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Michelin the Green Guide New York City (Michelin Green Guide: New York City English Edition)
Michelin the Green Guide New York City - Michelin Green Guide: New York City English Edition Author:Michelin Travel Publications New York City, alias the Big Apple, city of promise-and realized potential: where class and crass coincide and soaring skyscrapers are edged with dark alleyways. A city of remarkable feats: the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building. Of noble vision and vast public good: the UN, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Pub... more »lic Library. Art mecca for the nation. Engine of America’s wealth. The country’s most populated metropolis. The nation’s first capital. Epicenter of the Great Depression. Hourly, the streets of New York City vibrate with life: trucks, cabs, stretch limousines, honking horns, street vendors, graffitti, police on horseback, dog walkers, in-line skaters, mime artists, briefcase-toting execs, and the fashionable-dressed to the nines. Newcomers are swept into this swirl of sounds, sights and sensations, struck by the insouciance and unflagging fortitude with which New Yorkers handle their day. Whether shopping Fifth Avenue, sampling soul food in Harlem, gallery-hopping in SoHo, touring Central Park in a carriage or sipping latte in Greenwich, visitors are embraced in the city’s contagious pulsation-and transported to an urban sphere that is unquestionably awesome.« less