Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City’s Best Unusual Attractions

Travel writer Reisman (Columbia U., New York) lets tourists--and perhaps locals--in New York City in on approximately 100 small museums and other unusual sites worth visiting that tend to be overlooked by tour guides and travel books. She provides information on the nearest subway stop to each site, which are listed by the borough they are found in (Manhattan is divided into three sections). Among the attractions readers can visit are: historical monies on display at Lower Manhattan's American Numismatic Society, the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame in Upper Manhattan, the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage in the Bronx, Queens' Socrates Sculpture Park, the City Reliquary in Brooklyn, Staten Island's Noble Maritime Collection. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)