Growing up Michael Grosberg spent holidays with his large New York City family and grew to know their neighborhoods as if they were his own. Alter several long overseas trips and many careers, some abroad, Michael returned to New York City for graduate school and taught iiterature and writing in several NYC colleges. He's lived in Manhattan. Queens and Brooklyn and taught in the Bronx; this is the fifth Lonely Planet book Michael has written about the cityRaised on a diet of Sesame Street, .
Cristian Bonetto's fondness for stoops and subways began in his duper days. Sirice then. the one-time TV and theater scribe has played both tourist and local in NYC, writing about the city's food, architecture and art for numerous international publications. When he's not downing dirty martinis in Manhattan. you'll find him on assignent in Italy, Scandinavia or Southeast Asia. Carolina A Miranda has lived in New York for almost two decades.
During her time m the city, she's attended the relier derby, canoed through industrial canais, watched basement performance art, seen operas at Lincoln Center and gotten engaged on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum. Her stories have appeared in Time. ARTnews, Budget Travel and National Public Radio. She is a regular contributor at WNYC. Alter earning an art history degree from Harvard University and working at the Musée du Louvre, Brandon Presser swapped landscape canvases for the real deal and joined the glamorous ranks of eternai nomadism.
Today. Brandon works as a fulltime freelance writer and photographer. He's penned more than 40 gurdebooks, from Iceiand to Thailand and many 'lands' in between. When he's not on the road he calls New York City home. Brandon also wrote the Survival Guide chapters in this guide.