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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent travel guide for NYC Jul 08, 2005
By Jeffrey L. Smith
"Eagles Wings"
If you're a first time New York City visitor or need more basic info for traveling, this dvd is an excellent way to learn how to plan your trip, and get an idea, a feel for what NYC is like before arriving. The more you know what you're in for when you arrive in NYC BEFORE you get there helps you not only blend in with the people flow, but prevents you from being so dazed and mesmorized by the streets, buildings, and pace that NYC presents a new visitor.
Well worth the price.
Jeff Smith
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Great tour of my home town Aug 12, 2006
By LF
"Keep your feedback to yourself, these are my opinions, not yours"
This may be the best Globe Trekker show I've seen, but then again I may be prejudiced because I'm a native New Yorker. It was great to see some of the spots I'm familiar with, like Battery Park, midtown Manhattan, Williamsburgh, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and my favorite part of New York City, Central Park. The most powerful part of this video is the trip to Ground Zero, where I used to work when it was called the World Trade Center. When they were describing Central Park as the center of town I was thinking yeah, you got that right. When they were in Brighton Beach I was talking to the screen, advising them to go to Mrs Stahl's for some pineapple cheese knishes. I also liked seeing the basketball players in the Greenwich Village park by the West 4th Street train station. How many dozens of times was I at that park and station?
If I was doing a Globe Trekker video on New York City I would have included a lot of the same things they did. I'd also show the midtown restaurants more, in their amazing variety, and Junior's restaurant in Brooklyn with their cheesecakes and awesome peach pies, and Yankee Stadium, and Shea Stadium, and Madison Square Garden, and more of The Village around Bleecker and MacDougal streets, and the restaurants of Chinatown instead of the store they took us into, and the restaurants of Little Italy, and the Bronx Zoo, and the beautiful Verrazzano Bridge that makes you feel like you're driving directly into Heaven, and Long Island City, Queens, but only because I grew up there. I'd have shown Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Stuyvesant High School, the Port Authority bus terminal and 42nd Street. And I'd have kept that idiot Farrakhan fan out of it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing DVD Jun 24, 2010
By Bonita R. Morrow
I was very disappointed in this Travel Guide DVD. It gave no helpful information for someone who is planning a trip to NYC. It didn't even cover the Broadway theater district. Who cares about roller blading in Central Park? The only good feature was the coverage of Ground Zero. It touched on many items but never went into detail...such as walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, or how to navigate the subway system. This was a waste of money.
Big Apple gets good overview Dec 22, 2011
By William Adam Reed
As a Middle School Geography Teacher, I have viewed many of the DVDs in the Globe Trekker collection, many are good, but their inconsistency is a problem, I have seen a fair number that are unmemorable and a few that are embarrassingly bad. Fortunatley, this DVD on New York City is well done, for the most part. Megan McCormick and Ian Wright are the co-hosts on this disc, and while Wright is one of the better hosts on these discs, I feel that McCormick really shines on this disc in particular. Last year I watched the "Globe Trekker-El Salvador" DVD which McCormick hosted, she came across as air-headed and as a silly flirt. She has gotten much better since. The single moment that comes across the best in this video is when she interviews a survivor from the 82nd floor of the World Trade Center. It is a beautiful and poignant moment and you can tell that the man was very grateful to still be here and McCormick was caught up in the emotion of what he had been through, it was not contrived at all, it came across simply as being sincere.
There are many fun and famous spots in this video, the Statue of Liberty is shown briefly, as is the Empire State Building. The hosts take us into Harlem and to Wall Street. The section on Coney Island was disappointngly short, hardly showing you anything. Having been once to New York City myself, I feel it covered the most important things pretty well, but I'm sure that there are areas that natives will feel were slighted. As a sports and theater fan, I did not notice much mention of these areas. But overall, a pretty good overview of America's largest city.
 nice Feb 21, 2010
By Michelle L. Faul
got this for a kid who sees a lot of new york in movies and has a lot of questions about the city. the dvd didn't answer all of them. it is interesting but only seems to bounce from topic to topic without giving enough info.
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