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New York City
Looking for a tour of New York City?:  Contact Robert   I'm not available?  Contact:  GANYC

Walk up an avenue or across a street in Manhattan:  http://home.nyc.rr.com/jkn/nysonglines

For residents (and fans) of Brooklyn:  http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/

For celebrity tours and gossip about those people paying the truly outrageous rents:  www.richandfamoustours.com.  This is a new company launched by veteran guides Jim Dykes and Mike Brennan.

If you work in midtown:   www.midtownlunch.com

For basic stats on skyscrapers in the city (and world):  New York Skyscrapers

A great site for users of Manhattan, aptly named:  Manhattan User's Guide
A fantastic site with varied and interesting NYC-related forums:  Ask A New Yorker
Want a professional photo taken of your group while in town?:  Group Photos
A site for architectural images and building information:  nyc-architecture
A fantastic site for the palimpsest that is NYC:  forgottenny
Get a daily dose of up-to-the-minute info about New York or your own city:  dailycandy
If you like the magazine, you'll love the web site:  New York Magazine
Another must-read for New Yorkers:  New York Observer
And one more, going strong for decades:  The Village Voice
Maps, hotels, theaters, etc:  nyc.com
The official sites for the NYC Parks Department:  NYC Dept. of Parks and Rec
The Landmarks Preservation Commission:  Landmarks Preservation  
The New York Public Library:  NYPL
A Web site on one of midtown's great neighborhoods:  Hell's Kitchen
A Yale reproduction of the Riis classic:  How the Other Half Lives
Historic Districts Council:  HDC
The Historic House Trust:  Historic House Trust
Landmarks Preservation Commission:  LPC
Photos of NYC from the early 20th Century:  HistoryInPhotos.com
New York History:  NewYorkHistoryInfo
Skyscraper Museum:  Skyscraper.org
A Guide to Former Street Names in New York City:  OldStreets.com
Advocating for Places in NYC that Preserve History and Sustain Culture:  PlaceMatters.net
JFK Airport Hotel Map offers great rates on over 50 hotels near JFK Airport. All hotels offer a generous savings off of regular hotel rack rates.
 

Writers:

You can track all sorts of books and authors at my publisher's site:  www.harpercollins.comCLICK HERE for direct access to my page on that site.  CLICK HERE for my myspace page.

Hillary Carlip:  www.queenoftheoddballs.com
Bryan Charles:  www.noslander.com 
Charlie Huston:  www.pulpnoir.com
Josh Kilmer-Purcell:  www.iamnotmyselfthesedays.com
Martin Moran:  www.thetrickypartbook.com
Malcolm Gladwell:  www.gladwell.com 
Grant Stoddard :  www.grantstoddard.com
Ellis Avery:  www.ellisavery.com
Martin Hyatt:  www.martinhyatt.net
 
Literary Blogs and Web sites:
Jeff Yamaguchi:  www.bookmouth.com
Harper Perennial:  www.olivereader.com
n+1:  www.nplusonemag.com
The Believer:  www.believermag.com
The Cruelest Month:  www.cruelestmonth.com
The Elegant Variation:  www.marksarvas.blogs.com
Book Ninja:  www.bookninja.com
Slate:  www.slate.com
Chekhov's Mistress:  www.chekhovsmistress.com
LitPark:  www.litpark.com
Fresh Yarn, an online salon for personal essays:  freshyarn.com
Galley Cat:  www.mediabistro.com/galleycat
The Written Nerd:  www.writtennerd.blogspot.com
The Literary Saloon:  http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/
Book Slut:  www.bookslut.com

 

Theater

P.S. 122, Dixon Place, LaMaMa E.T.C , NYTW, Public Theater, Andrea Burns, Peter Flynn, Marc Wolf , Christine EbersoleDuncan Sheik, Playbill.com, Broadway Chatterbox, Jason Robert Brown, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Travis Stroessenreuther

 

Museums, Galleries, the Visual Arts
Taylor Spence:  www.taylorwyoming.com   
Sal Randolph:  salrandolph.com
Colin Winterbottom's photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Twin Towers hung above my desk while writing Suspensionwww.winterbottom.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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