New York / Midtown - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides

By Andrew Delaplaine

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gramercy Park Press
• Release date: Sep 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536527094

Andrew Delaplaine

Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: [e-mail] He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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NEW YORK / MIDTOWN

The Delaplaine

2017 Long Weekend Guide

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Andrew Delaplaine

NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.

A list of the author’s other travel guides, as well as his political thrillers and titles for children, can be found at the end of this book.

Senior Editors - Renee & Sophie Delaplaine

Senior Writer - James Cubby

Gramercy Park Press

New York – London - Paris

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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WHY NEW YORK?

GETTING ABOUT

& OTHER TIPS

WHERE TO STAY

UNDER $150

MIDTOWN EAST

(MURRY HILL, GRAMERCY PARK, UNION SQUARE)

MIDTOWN WEST

(TIME SQUARE, CHELSEA)

WHERE TO EAT

NIGHTLIFE

WHAT TO SEE & DO

SHOPPING & SERVICES

OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

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WHY NEW YORK?

Oh, my God (or OMG to you Facebook fans), where does one really start?  I was in a bar (imagine that!) on South Beach just a couple of weeks ago and a female marketing executive asked me what were my three favorite cities in the world: I said without hesitation, New York, Paris and London.

I’d lived in each city for years, visited them many times every year when I wasn’t living there, but there you have it.

Why do you live in Miami? she asked.

Well, I’m a bit on in years, and you have to have SERIOUS MONEY to live in the three cities I love so much. In addition, while I have a little bit of the filthy lucre, I don’t have enough to live as I would like in those three cities. So, these days, and it being my line of work, I’m quite content to settle for frequent visits.

New York, New York! She asked why I chose those three cities. Here’s why:

New York is the most exciting city in the world.

London is the most interesting city in the world.

Paris is the most beautiful city in the world.

To me, anyway.

Maybe after you’ve exhausted the possibilities of these 3 cities, you can move on to Berlin or Barcelona or wherever. But I don’t think you ever will exhaust the limitless resources to inspire you in any of these 3 cities.

I had my first experience in New York when Angela Lansbury was starring in Mame at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, Al Jolson’s old theatre. That would have been in the 1960s. I think I had the only subscription to The New Yorker in South Carolina in the 1960s.

When I graduated from Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., in 1968, I gave my rented black graduation gown to my girlfriend (Sara Ellis was her name, from Savannah) and boarded an Eastern Air Lines flight to LaGuardia two hours after I got out of school. That was that.

It was the most exciting city in the world then and it’s the most exciting city in the world now. Only cleaner. And less crime ridden.

To put into a short book like this what you ought to do in New York in a 3 or 4-day weekend is a very daunting task. But I have given it some major thought, and I will tell you exactly what I think are the most important things for you to consider.

I will give you enough hotels to select from, a handful of restaurants ranging from very expensive to very cheap, and a few other tips, but you will have to cheery-pick from among my suggestions to craft the kind of Long Weekend you want to experience.

Once I spent an ENTIRE WEEK—day after day—traipsing through Central Park seeing things I’d never seen in the whole ten years I lived there.

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