The popular, easy-to-use format of the Walking series readily lends itself to exploring Manhattan. Each of the 30 walking tours includes a lively overview of the route, highlighted points of interest, a full-color map, and professional photography.

ELLEN LEVITT is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, New York, who has written for such publications as The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and New York Teacher. She is also the author of the three books in the series The Lost Synagogues of New York City (Avotaynu). A graduate of Barnard College, she has conducted walking, bus, and bicycling tours of New York City and is a veteran public-school teacher.

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Introduction

• Bowling Green and the Battery


• Battery Park City and Tribeca


• Wall Street/Financial District


• City Hall and South Street Seaport


• Civic Center and Chinatown


• Lower East Side


• The Bowery, Little Italy, and Soho


• East Village


• Central Greenwich Village


• West Village


• Union Square, Gramercy Park, and Stuyvesant Square


• Chelsea and Madison Square Park


• High Line


• Lower Midtown/Garment District


• 42nd Street


• Times Square/Theater District


• Rockefeller Center


• Lenox Hill


• Upper West Side


• Fifth Avenue


• Central Park West


• Central Park


• Yorkville (Asphalt Green to Sutton Place)


• Morningside Heights


• Lower Harlem, Including Morningside Park


• Central Harlem, Featuring 125th Street


• Hamilton Heights


• Washington Heights


• Inwood


• Marble Hill and Inwood Hill Park


• Appendix 1: Walks by Theme


• Appendix 2: Points of Interest


• Appendix 3: Bibliography