New York City Curiosities - Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Montanarelli has co-authored three nonfiction books, including Strange But True San Francisco and Strange But True Chicago (both Globe Pequot Press). She has contributed features, profiles, and reviews to San Francisco Chronicle, Art and Antiques Magazine, California Literary Review, Colorado Review, Agence France-Presse,and Publishers Weekly. Klappentext Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Big Apple has to offer! Whether you're a born-and-raised New Yorker, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New York City Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Lisa Montanarelli takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Big Apple.Take a stroll through a former landfill that was once the largest man-made structure on Earth, with trash piled higher than the Statue of Liberty.Chow down at the Jekyll and Hyde Club along with robotic werewolves, mad scientists, and bartenders returned from the dead. Visit a supply store for superheroes with X-ray glasses, Wonder Woman-style Deflector Bracelets, and Evil Blob Containment Capsules. Hop aboard with hip-hop celebrities who give bus tours of hip-hop landmarks. Zusammenfassung The definitive collection of New York City's odd! wacky! and most offbeat people! places! and things! for New York City residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist. From Chinatown restaurants that make "bubble tea" to the Burger King peacock statue in Staten Island! this book will have it all.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Montanarelli, Montanarelli Lisa
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2011
• EAN: 9780762760558
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-6055-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Curiosities Series; Curiosities Series; New York City Curiosities: Qui
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Travel > Travel guides > North and Central America; USA, New York, HISTORY / United States / General, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Northeast, MID-ATLANTIC