Product Description

Streetwise Midtown Manhattan Map - Laminated City Street Map of Midtown Manhattan, NY - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated subway lines & stations

This map covers the following areas:
Main Midtown Manhattan Map 1:16,000
Midtown Manhattan Theatre District Map 1:8,000

More than just the center of Manhattan, the STREETWISE® Midtown Manhattan map is an exquisitely detailed view of Manhattan from Washington Square Park and 4th Street up to 125th Street in Harlem; from the East River where the United Nations sits moving west across town to the Hudson River where you will find the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Nearly 500 hundred sites within this midtown Manhattan map grid are identified, color-coded and indexed, including performance halls, cinemas, colleges, hotels, museums, office buildings, and major department stores.

Finding a theatre is simplified with the inset map of the theatre district featuring 38 distinct venues. Hotels are clearly indicated on the main midtown map so you’ll know exactly how to orient yourself if you’re visiting from out of town. An inset addresses finder tells you where to find address for both cross town streets and North-South Avenues. An index of named streets is also included.

Our pocket size map of Midtown Manhattan is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Midtown Manhattan map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Midtown map today and you too can navigate Midtown like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65248 in Books
• Brand: StreetWise
• Published on: 2009-07-01
• Format: Folded Map
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map
• 1 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780935039047
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
• Notes:
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Review
'Don't leave home without STREETWISE.' --The New York Times

'STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.' --Travel + Leisure Magazine

'In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.' --Chicago Daily Herald

About the Author
STREETWISE® is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. We’ve set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where you’ve never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.

The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970’s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.

After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.

He started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.

More important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map - vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.

Building the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.

Today, STREETWISE® produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.

Yet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesn’t match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we’ve done the work, now you have the adventure.

In the end, it’s not about the map, it’s about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. It’s about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE® is the great map that you need.

Customer Reviews

This is a fantastic map!
I have just returned from our New York trip. Let me tell you that I was the "logistician" for our little group thanks to both Frommer's and this incredible Streetwise MidTown Manhattan Map!

The map is accurate, easy to read, very portable. I found the information it contained about the location of various Theatres particularly helpful.

I always purchase a map such as this prior to travel, and would not go to a city without a map like this! The Transit Map of New York was also very helpful and a wonderful companion purchase. Oh and do not forget the Downtown Manhattan Map!

Love maps......
I own Streetwise maps for pretty much every city I've visited in the US and abroad. They're easy to read, and are pretty much indestructible. This is my second Manhattan map but only because I wanted more current hotel info. My old one looks as good as the one I just received. I've tried lots of street maps....these are the best !

Excellent for first-time visitors!
We used this map to get around Manhattan during our first-ever trip there in July, 2003. It's small enough to be convenient, big enough to show the important stuff, and, best of all, laminated so it takes the wear and tear of repeated use! I will definitely hold on to this map and take it with me the next time I visit NYC!