StreetSmart NYC Map Downtown Edition maps all top attractions including museums, major architecture, hotels, theaters, shopping destinations, ferry connections and the subway system for all of Manhattan at an immensely legible scale of 1:32,000, complete with 3-D building illustrations. Clear information design allows users to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is laminated, pocket size and easily fits into your pocket or purse. Dimensions: 4 x 9 closed; 9 x 24 open.
Contents: Manhattan Street map scale 1:32,000 Downtown Manhattan map Detail scale 1:17,000 Manhattan Subway Map
StreetSmart NYC Map Downtown Edition is so clear and easy to understand you can navigate the city with ease. For instance: You are looking to get from your Tribeca hotel to the High Line to meet friends at the Spanish Mercado in Hudson Yards, looking for the fastest subway connection from the Lower East Side to the Hudson Theater in Midtown, negotiating the shifting grids of the West Village where W 11 and W 4 Sts intersect, looking for the right uptown exit on the FDR Drive, making sense of the Dutch Colonial Grid Downtown to find the 9/11 National Memorial before dusk for that perfect shot, or hiking from the Met through Central Park to head to the Apollo Theater in Harlem for a show. The map shows you the shortest route as well as the closest bathrooms. Locals call Manhattan the City and refer to the boroughs of Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island collectively referred to as the City of New York.
StreetSmart NYC Map Downtown Edition includes a stunning dimensional detail of Lower Manhattan with the 9/11 Memorial at 1:17,000 scale at its center to make you feel you are there. The map also includes transit information and an address finder covering all of New York City. All subway stops are shown by their respective line in context right on the street map as well as on an overview map so you understand the detail and the overall system.
StreetSmart NYC Map Downtown Edition includes a stunning dimensional detail of Downtown Manhattan with the 9/11 National Memorial site at 1:17,000 scale at its center to help you navigate the world s only vertical city based on a 17th C Dutch grid and make you feel you in charge. The map includes transit information and an address finder covering all of New York City. Stephan Van Dam, the map designer has lived in Manhattan for over 40 years and knows the city inside out. The map is updates four times a year and the most current map available. So get StreetSmart NYC Map Downtown Edition and become an instant New Yorker.
Stephan Van Dam, AIGA is an award-winning cartographer, graphic designer, and information architect. He is the president, principal and creative director of New York-based VanDam Publishing. Twenty-seven of his maps are in the MoMA Collection. <br/><br/>. He's has mapped over 125 world cities, and holds several patents in the field of paper engineering and origami map folding. <br/><br/>His work has been honored by the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the editors of ID magazine and has been featured on national television and been sighted in numerous feature films. Stephan presented The Power of Maps at the original TED Conference in 2002.
