Download or read book New York s 50 Best Places to Find Peace and Quiet written by Allan Ishac and published by City. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the quiet side of New York. Listen to the whisper of a waterfall. Inhale the sweet fragrance of 2,000 prizewinning rosebushes. Meditate in a monastery or during a massage. Commune in a cloister. Rest on a rooftop. Marvel at the leafy loveliness of a tropical rainforest. Or, float weightlessly in your own private sea. Discover soothing oases of serenity, right in the heart of New York City.
Download or read book New York s 50 Best Places to Find Peace and Quiet written by Allan Ishac and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 20,000 copies in print, evidently all New Yorkers need a little Peace & Quiet. Listen to the whisper of a waterfall. Inhale the scent of 2,000 prizewinning rosebuds. Meditate in a monastery or during a massage. Commune in a cloister. Rest on rooftop. Marvel at the leafy loveliness of a tropical rainforest. Follow Allan Ishac as he experiences the most soothing oases of serenity he could find, right in the heart of New York. With 50 revised and updated locations, plus 10 additional peaceful places.
Download or read book Peaceful Places New York City written by Evelyn Kanter and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensory overload may make for exciting urban life, but sometimes it's just too much. Kicking off a new series of city guides, 100 Peaceful Places: New York City leads both residents and visitors on an unexpected path. Author Evelyn Kanter shares the inspiring, restorative pockets she has come to love over a lifetime of exploring and living in New York City. While her native Manhattan serves up many calming spots, this unique guide reflects New York's colorful ethnic diversity, revealing the unexpected sanctuaries, gardens, vistas, beaches, neighborhood strolls, and peaceful cafés that can be found throughout the city. And by knowing when to go or where to head once inside, visitors can escape the crowds even at popular, tourist-heavy destinations like Grand Central Station and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As a bonus, many of the sites offer free admission, and none are exorbitantly expensive.
Download or read book The Spiritual Traveler written by Edward F. Bergman and published by Hidden Spring. This book was released on 2001 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to sacred sites and sacred spaces in New York City, written from a multi-faith and multicultural point of view. Includes many major historical, cultural and architectural sites, as well as lesser known sites of interest.
Download or read book Prettycitynewyork written by Siobhan Ferguson and published by Pretty Cities. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City is known for many things: its urban, high-rise landscape, the bustling atmosphere, and busy business and tourist spots. Pretty tree-lined avenues, cute shops, and serene getaways do not immediately come to mind for this cosmopolitan city, but they are there. Acclaimed Instagrammer Siobhan Ferguson, author of prettycitylondon, now turns her discerning eye to the Big Apple itself. Travel along with her as she uncovers the hidden gems--the sweet, secluded alleys, the fantastic markets, the artisan boutiques--that New York has to offer, and reveals the beautiful, the quaint, and the downright pretty scattered among the urban landscape of the world's most famous city. Stunning photographs alongside fantastic tips to take your own pictures and create a prettycitynewyork experience for yourself make this the perfect book for visitors on foot and armchair travelers alike.
Download or read book 50 Places to Find Peace and Quiet in New York written by Allan Ishac and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's 50 Best Places to Find Peace and Quiet The New York Times called Allan Ishac's restorative volume a sweet book, one that will help calm mind and soul if you're at wit's end and frantic for tranquility.
Download or read book New York s 50 Best Places to Find Peace Quiet 5th Edition written by Allan Ishac and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestselling title in City & Company history with 40,000 copies sold! Beyond the surface noise and chaos is a quiet New York of tranquility and blessed silence. NEW YORK’S 50 BEST PLACES TO FIND PEACE AND QUIET, takes the reader to 50 oases of serenity around the city—from gardens to spas, meditation centers to wildlife refuges—each a revitalizing place of calm amidst the daily bustle and grind of urban life. "If you’re at wit’s end and frantic for tranquility, relax…you can buy [this] sweet little book." The New York Times.
Download or read book New York City Like a Local written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come to New York as a visitor, but experience it as a local, with the definitive guide to New York If you’re a first time visitor or familiar already, this guide will help you uncover an authentic local experience like no other. There’s something for everyone, no matter what your test, and a host of secrets and tips that will help you experience NYC like a local This one-of-a-kind travel guide to New York includes: • Two-color, bold modern design with contemporary illustrations throughout • Narrative style throughout, making the local, personal voice central to every entry • Structured by six themes and subsequent sub-themes, rather than areas, to echo how people are traveling, rather than where. Themes include Eat, Drink, Shop, and more! • Each entry includes its unique address so readers can pinpoint precisely where they are heading • Each theme ends with a tour spread, dedicated to a specific interest or experience. For example, “A Night Out in Greenwich Village” and “Thrifting in Williamsburg” • Created keeping in mind readers traveling in a post-Covid world Discover the best of the Big Apple Soaring skyscrapers, iconic museums, world-renowned parks, and a foodie scene like no other, New York is a city with something for everyone! The Empire State Building, Met Museum, and so many more incredible sights known across New York and the world are just waiting for you, and who better to give you the low-down on where to go than the locals? From the best brunch spots and dive bars to the ultimate thrift stores and off-Broadway shows, this New York guidebook will help you find all the local’s favorite hangout spots and hidden haunts. Canoe along Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, browse long-standing record stores in the East Village, and while away an evening at an Upper East Side wine bar. More in the series From Paris and London to San Francisco and Tokyo, there are more places to discover with these niche local guides! Written by the people who call it home, the Like A Local series from DK takes you beyond the tourist track to experience the heart and soul of each city!
Download or read book The Constitutional History of New York The annotated constitution written by Charles Zebina Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Night New York City written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2006-10-28 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of New York City through a full day of sightseeing.
Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quiet New York written by Siobhan Wall and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York is the city that never sleeps, but many visitors to the Big Apple want to enjoy its quiet side - to discover places off the beaten track, to explore enticing small museums or enjoy peaceful gardens. Busy New Yorkers often look for places to relax and recuperate - to find somewhere to have coffee and cake or a restful spot to unwind, away from the hustle and bustle. This is a guide to over 120 quiet places to meet, drink, dine, sleep, read or browse. Covering all five boroughs and with evocative photographs and a short description for each location, including travel, access and contact details, Quiet New York reveals the hidden, tranquil places in one of the world's liveliest cities.
Download or read book Peaceful Places Los Angeles written by Laura Randall and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her 1930s screenwriting days in Hollywood, wordsmith Dorothy Parker famously pegged Los Angeles as "72 suburbs in search of a city." Today even more communities radiate from the downtown core, creating a metropolitan universe of noise, speed, and congestion amid the glitter and bling. Los Angeles–based author Laura Randall knows just where to go for some urban stress relief. The second in a new guidebook series spotlighting calming sites in major U.S. cities, Peaceful Places: Los Angeles serves up a medley of soothing sanctuaries, panoramic vistas, fragrant gardens, restorative hideaways, and unexpected urban oases. Altogether, the entries present a feast for all five of the senses — not to mention the sixth sense, that perception that "this place quiets my soul."
Download or read book Quiet Water New York written by John Hayes and published by Appalachian Mountain Club. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new edition in 10 years, this completely revised and updated, Quiet Water New York describes more than 100 spectacular paddling destinations in New York State.
Download or read book The Advocate of Peace written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dead Wednesday written by Jerry Spinelli and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can playing dead bring you back to life? Maybe on Dead Wednesday… On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection they make will change them both forever. A brilliant new novel from the Newbery Medal winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Stargirl. "Jerry Spinelli has created another middle grade masterpiece." —BookPage, starred review On Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name and identity of a teenager who died a preventable death in the past year. The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they're invisible—as if they weren't even there. The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality. The kids know it's a free pass to get away with anything. Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day. He's perfectly happy being the unnoticed sidekick of his friend Eddie. So he's not expecting Dead Wednesday to feel that different. But he didn't count on being assigned Becca Finch (17, car crash). And he certainly didn't count on Becca showing up to boss him around! Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything. This is the story of the unexpected, heartbreaking, hilarious, truly epic day when Worm Tarnauer discovers his own life.
Download or read book 111 Places in New York That You Must Not Miss written by Jo-Anne Elikann and published by Emons Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The ultimate insider's guide to New York City - Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides - Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide - Appeals to both the local market (nearly 8.5 million call NYC home) and the tourist market (over 50 million people visit NYC every year) - Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs - New revised and updated edition New York, New York - a crazy quilt of evolving neighborhoods, trends, and tastes, and home to natives and newcomers of every nationality, ethnicity, and outlook. New York City's history and grand ambitions live in every street, park, and hidden alleyway. This unusual guidebook invites the adventurous and curious to explore a wildly diverse selection of little-known places, including: a trapeze school, a giant Buddha in a former porno theater, a Coney Island sideshow, Louis Armstrong's home, a Central Park croquet court, a Gatsby-era speakeasy, and a secret balcony where slaves worshiped 200 years ago. Play chess with the masters on a Midtown office-tower wall; have a pint at a legendary prizefighter's hangout in Soho; whisper messages across a crowded train station. Unexpected and quirky, most of these destinations are so under-the-radar they will astound even longtime New Yorkers who thought they knew it all! Revised and updated edition.
