Guides for Exploring New York
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Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer. Here are other intriguing guides to getting around New York City and its surrounding areas:
“The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland” (Cornell University Press, $29.95), featuring photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld, provides a vivid, bittersweet record of forsaken archaeological sites that were once beloved summer havens in the Catskills. “To me,” Ms. Scheinfeld writes, “these discarded places are artifacts of time, evidence of change and settings of intrigue.”
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“A Field Guide to Long Island Sound” (Yale University Press, $27.50) by Patrick J. Lynch is a lavishly illustrated and enlightening companion to anyone who cares about the 110-mile long estuary’s survival.
“Figures in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City” (W. W. Norton & Company, $19.95) by Robert Arthur King, an architect and designer from the Bronx, takes readers on a tour of visible, but overlooked, carvings.
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“Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island’s Welcoming Beacon” (Arcadia Publishing and the History Press, $21.99) by Bill Bleyer explores the 1858 tower.
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An early photograph of the Fire Island Lighthouse, with its black and white bands.
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Fire Island National Seashore
“Gardens of Stone: The Cemeteries of New York City From Colonial Times to the Present” (Fonthill Media, $22.99) by Alexandra Kathryn Mosca offers a historical excursion, with stops at grave sites that include Louis Armstrong’s and Harry Houdini’s.
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“Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York” (Spiegel & Grau, $22), by Justin Davidson, New York magazine’s architecture critic, provides an intimate, seductive guidebook.
“New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture” (Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, $24.95) by Anthony W. Robins is a colorful keepsake for any aficionado.
“The Rockefeller Family Gardens: An American Legacy” (The Monacelli Press, $50), with lush photographs by Larry Lederman, captures how gloriously each generation expressed its personal character on a monumental canvas.
“The Quarry Fox and Other Critters of the Wild Catskills” (The Overlook Press, $25), by the naturalist Leslie T. Sharpe, is a poignant and modern reminder of untamed creatures so close to home.
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