From the book jacket: "This is a wonderful book, perceptive, entertaining, useful, refreshingly free of jargon. A superbly written guide, Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New York Times, takes readers on a guided walking tour of Manhattan, beginning in the financial district and traveling uptown - stopping to provide historical information and aesthetic evaluations of some four hundred buildings along the way. The lively, knowledgeable commentary and provocative opinions make delightful armchair reading, but it will be hard to resist putting the guide in your pocket and strolling through the city to appreciate its streets, neighborhoods, buildings, parks, bridges and other sights."

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